Keith “Maggie” Brown
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NYU as a Model for Predatory Higher Education
The Art of the Gouge… describes how NYU engages in a mind-numbing range of tricks and traps to extract as much in fees as possible from students, while at the same time failing to invest in and often degrading the… Continue reading
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Capitalism Could Kill All Life on Earth
Are we going to let capitalism destroy life on Earth? According to 99 percent of climate scientists – we’ll know by the end of the century. Source: www.truth-out.org Continue reading
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Knowledge Advances By a Series of Funerals
The boundaries between true intellectual disciplines are currently enforced by little more than university budgets and architecture… The real distinction we should care about — the observation of which is the sine qua non of the scientific attitude — is… Continue reading
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Remember This: Capitalism IS Race
… It’s not just a race. Consider the radical beginning of Memorial Day in the now forgotten Decoration Day, a holiday that originally recalled the violent partisan political struggles of emancipation as a central aspect of remembrance. At least until… 1877,… Continue reading
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Soundthropology: Eno and Graeber in Dialog
The 2014 Artangel Longplayer Conversation between Brian Eno and David Graeber took place 7pm, Tuesday 7 October 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuBpOXGLn_o Continue reading
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Primacy of Ethics over Metaphysics
From a consideration of the primacy of ethics in Dante’s The Banquet by Etienne Gilson in Dante the Philosopher (1948): …the Crystaline heaven, or Primum Mobile, ordains by its motion the daily revolution of all the other heavens, a revolution that enables them to receive and transmit… Continue reading
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The Authentic Human Behavior of Mad Men
This is, then, a hopeful ending, not just for Don, and for the other characters — all of whom reinvented themselves professionally and personally, and showed signs of having learned from past mistakes — but for America itself. Hopeful is… Continue reading
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The New Eye – Visionary Art and Tradition | Mundus Imaginalis
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‘Queer Icons’ Of Color
Icons are an essential part of the visual history of religions, including those of the Catholic, Coptic and Orthodox Christian traditions. From the familiar Mary and the Archangel Gabriel to the more obscure Saint Menas or Theotokos of Vladimir, iconic… Continue reading
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Luciano Floridi on the Philosophy of Information
The philosophy of information is a new area of research. We didn’t study it when we were students, partly because we didn’t realise that the glasses were on our noses. There’s a lot of philosophy from the ancient Greeks to… Continue reading
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Soul loss: the shaman’s diagnosis of our existential complaints – Dream Gates
The greatest contribution of the ancient shamans to our medicine and healing today is the understanding that in the course of any life we are liable to suf Source: www.beliefnet.com Continue reading
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►Greek Mythology: “Athena, Goddess of Wisdom”.-
“Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom and Knowledge” by Willem De Poorter. (17th century). Source: aquileana.wordpress.com Continue reading
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This Flower-Filled Abandoned House Is Bringing A Bit Of Life Back To Detroit
Late one evening this month, a woman appeared in the second-story window of an abandoned house overlooking a Detroit freeway. A spotlight illuminated her face as she flung handfuls of white petals down to the crowd gathered outside a venue… Continue reading
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Where academic philosophy went wrong
Originally posted on Huenemanniac: A potted history: I believe Peter Sloterdijk is right that the Enlightenment has been followed by philosophical cynicism, or an impressive array of natural knowledge unaccompanied by any faith in providence. The U.S., which became the… Continue reading
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