Saturday, I went to visit my mother at the nursing home in Abilene, TX. Almost 91, she has become much less active, sometimes sleeping most
Author: Keith "Maggie" Brown
I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers' periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.
Wonder of dawn
The shared reason of the day says, “See, the sun comes up in the east as the earth stands still.” Or maybe, “See, the earth
The Other Uncertainty: The View from Disaster History
From my beloved comrade Prof. Scott G. Knowles, Ph.D. (Drexel University) …The “certainty” of the historical record is an artifact of a time when women,
On Bullshit Jobs – RSA
According to a 2015 YouGov poll, 37% of the UK population believe their job makes no meaningful contribution to the world. And despite the time-saving
Team Human – RSA
Influential thinker Douglas Rushkoff argues that there is an anti-human agenda embedded in our markets and technologies, which has turned them from means of human
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Nice addition to the list of fifteen books I posted yesterday. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life
