Keith “Maggie” Brown
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A better direction for beauty
An old ambition is peeking through: that beauty and glamour shouldn’t be divorced from wisdom. In the perfect world, the great truths wouldn’t lie locked away in depressing unreadable books or be spoken only by inarticulate and visually challenged members… Continue reading
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Forgetful echoes
“Only thoughts that are randomly born die. The other thoughts we carry with us without knowing them. They have abandoned themselves to forgetfulness so that they can be with us all the time.” E. M. Cioran, The Book of Delusions… Continue reading
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Mononoke
Really awesome animation. Love the style and feel of this anime. You can watch the first episode below. Here is a brief overivew from Wikipedia: Mononoke follows a wandering, nameless character known only as the “Medicine Seller” (voiced by Takahiro… Continue reading
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The good white folks of the Academy | Al Jazeera America
A particular narrative about slavery is told over and over: The institution was a historical aberration perpetrated by evil white people, but luckily there were good white people who listened to the black people, and they helped free the slaves,… Continue reading
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super architect
Originally posted on coromandal: We used, as architects, to do things for public benefit; now we broadcast the interests of individuals or corporations. This has changed the work, says Koolhaas in the interview below. How it has changed the work? That’s… Continue reading
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Dawning Jedi
This semester, I find myself contributing to a number of university courses. One is Metaphysics. As designed by my colleague, the class moves between classical metaphysics (what we have thought about Being in the past) and transhumanist metaphysics (what human… Continue reading
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UNT Comics Studies Conference 2014
Originally posted on SUPERHERO RHETORIC FORTRESS OF BLOGITUDE!: Saturday March 1, 2014 at UNT in Denton TX from 10am-6pm! SUPERSCHOLARS ASSEMBLE!! It’s that time of year once again for UNT’s Comics Studies Conference! The University of North Texas Center for… Continue reading
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The “Deep State” – How Much Does It Explain?
…[T]here is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only… Continue reading
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The internet is a utility
…[C]orporations that control internet access insist that they’re providing specialized services that are somehow different than water, power, and telephones. They point to crazy bullshit you don’t want or need like free email addresses and web hosting solutions and goofy… Continue reading
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How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations – The Intercept
…[T]hese agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, arecompromising the integrity of the internet itself. Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false… Continue reading
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Bastille // No Scrubs (live at RTL2) – YouTube
Bastille playing No Scrubs live at RTL2 Continue reading
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Gotta Serve Somebody
Via Star Wars Rebels Propaganda Posters Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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The Question Concerning Technoscience
A good show from the BBC. I begin the episode a bit of the way in. Worth watching the whole thing, but this gives you a taste of things to come in Humanity 2.0… Maybe. Continue reading
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Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair | Moyers and Company
Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few… Continue reading
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Night Vigil 20140212
Passing wondrous strange that any seek the holy or sacred anywhere than within themselves. Why can we not see that to seek elsewhere for the divine is already to deny yourself as being a part of the Encompassing Good? Do… Continue reading
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