CALL ME MAGGIE

Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Aphorism 25Mar2023

    If I am willing to be open to the uncertainty of being in the lifeworld alongside all these others also struggling toward liberation, I must never forget: Evolution is neither preservation of the status quo nor conservation of the familiar;… Continue reading

    Aphorism 25Mar2023

  • Some thoughts on guilt and innocence

    To the degree that there is an intentionality to guilt. it would involve consciousness of failure. In this sense, I mean failure to do the right thing: either because you failed to do right on purpose or by accident. Existentially,… Continue reading

    Some thoughts on guilt and innocence

  • Aphorism 17Mar2023

    Do not talk to show-off the many things in your stable of understandings. Rather, speak to shine-forth the experience of passing-through this moment. Otherwise, remain in the dignity of silence. Flowing quietly with the Encompassing Now/Here, how can there be… Continue reading

    Aphorism 17Mar2023

  • Loving as heeding the vocation of humanization

    Lecture from PHIL 2306, Intro to Ethics, 07March2023: Finding the ground for ethical theory and moral action. I propose that most “vicious” / vice-ridden reactivity to our circumstances arises from dehumanization. Therefore, if there is a place where we can… Continue reading

  • Health as Shame Generator

    Lots of shame comes out of the Health Industrial Complex. Whether it’s a physician measuring your failure in pounds or a fitness guru manipulating your desire to “look fit and attractive,” shame plays a HUGE role in keeping most people… Continue reading

    Health as Shame Generator

  • Dark Music Days Music Festival

    My beautiful sibling and philosophic co-conspiratorJeanette Joy Harris went all the way to Iceland for this festival experience. The least you can do is read about it. Sounds like it was a brilliant time Curating a music festival, or any… Continue reading

  • APHORISM 20Feb2023

    Desire-Friendship-Charity: Will you risk yourself for love? Continue reading

    APHORISM 20Feb2023

  • Aphorism 18Feb2023

    When you are lost in self-doubt, listen for the voice of the Stranger. Continue reading

    Aphorism 18Feb2023

  • Aphorism 17Feb2023

    No matter how broken, we overcome. Continue reading

    Aphorism 17Feb2023

  • Santos and the Millienial Cultural Capitalist

    We are seeing the culmination of Neoliberalism’s Society of Control as more people turn to accumulating cultural capital as a means of increasing power which includes wealth rather than gaining wealth that generates power Continue reading

    Santos and the Millienial Cultural Capitalist

  • Turning over: awake

    Bloody birth wriggling from the womb. Cries of life after the first difficult breath.  How to grasp this new thread Tightening itself within the tapestry? As each breath increases awareness Grab greedy all around… Suckling, pissing, shitting. Each action becoming… Continue reading

    Turning over: awake

  • Caring about the immunocompromised

    Good article for thinkering about an ethics of care for those who are most vulnerable during this pandemic… Close to 3 percent of U.S. adults take immunosuppressive drugs, either to treat cancers or autoimmune disorders or to stop their body from rejecting… Continue reading

    Caring about the immunocompromised

  • A tough guy who gave my brother his nickname

    Originally posted on thelawmanmovie: A Gun-Slingin’ Good Guy Battles Evil Forces to Become a Real-Life Action Hero Don Slatton chased fame and fortune – plus bad guys and bond jumpers – during his life as “The Lawman”.  It’s a true story… Continue reading

  • The American Maginot Line

    A couple of links to very helpful information for those who have never given much consideration to how the US/Mexico border represents and enforces American Imperialism and settler colonialism. For most Americans, there is a lot still to learn; these… Continue reading

    The American Maginot Line

  • Tattleware developed for the next BS War on Workers

    There absolutely has been a breach of trust between employer and worker, but it’s not up to us – the underpaid and the stressed-out and the very tired and exploited – to prove we deserve our independence. Employers need to… Continue reading

    Tattleware developed for the next BS War on Workers

  • Professors on contingent contracts are ESSENTIAL 

    Until faculty realize that their vocation as MAGISTERS and DOCTORS, as those with TEACHING authority, actually transcends the MINISTERIAL and CURIAL power of adMINistrators and trustees, they will continue to launch little more than empty critiques of neoliberalization. Continue reading

    Professors on contingent contracts are ESSENTIAL 

  • A Black Odyssey: Coming from Slaves and Studying Slavery | Society for Classical Studies

    My nephew, Javal Coleman, who studies Classics at UT-Austin just published this reflection. When I began my undergraduate career at the University of North Texas, I was not sure what period of history would keep my attention. I enjoyed American… Continue reading

  • Professors indoctrinating students? In reality, it’s the other way around

    Rather than radicalizing them, I am more radicalized by all these millenials and zoomers who long to comprehend the world they are inheriting from people like me. Continue reading

    Professors indoctrinating students? In reality, it’s the other way around