Art/Skill/Techne
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Sometimes… Faith
a small poem on the synesthetics of faith in humanity Continue reading
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Tina Turner: Simply the Best
R. I. P. Tina Turner (1939-2023), one of the best entertainers with a real gift for transcending circumstances and being open to change. 🙏namaste sibling🙏 Continue reading
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Climbing Mountains
I was missing my brother quite fiercely today. I am not really sure why… I kept thinking about how we shared a love for Star Wars and SciFi Fantasy. Or how my eclectic taste in music is so much due… Continue reading
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Reading my life as a “useless passion”
Problem posing from my experience increases my existential literacy in the direction of liberatory praxis. Continue reading
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Aphorism Injection 24 April 2023
Playing with the root word L. IACERE (to throw). Continue reading
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APHORISM 20Feb2023
Desire-Friendship-Charity: Will you risk yourself for love? Continue reading
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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
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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
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Magic and Mechanics
Explore the historic connection between magic and mechanics. Continue reading
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CMM0013–ORDER OF FLO with Joy and Rivkah
Drawing on themes from queer theory and responding to COVID-19, “Order of Flo” playfully dances along the lines of destiny at the intersection of bodily motion and mindful emotion. Melting the presentations of drag, queer bodies, and weird minds, “Order… Continue reading
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We are the children of the cosmos
Does your thinkering lead to making or to doing? Does your doing and your making lead to thinkering? Continue reading
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Beholding the beheld
Truth, Beauty, and Joy each have different kinds of ideas and facts. Not knowing this distinction allows systemic bigotry to continue oppressing folx despite contradictory scientific discoveries, socio-cultural evolution, and personal evidence. Continue reading
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Decolonizing Prehistory with World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture
“The idol was carved during an era of great climate change, when early forests were spreading across a warmer late glacial to postglacial Eurasia,” Dr. Terberger said. “The landscape changed, and the art — figurative designs and naturalistic animals painted… Continue reading
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Muffins that are diabetic friendly
Quick recipe for making a high-protein, low-carb, low-glycemic goody. Continue reading
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Open Virtue, Closed Propriety: Considerations on Daoism and Bergsonism
No consideration of parallels between Daoism and Bergsonism has been accomplished. Yet there is a profitable comparison to be made between the ancient Chinese philosophy of the Dào Dé Jing and the more contemporary work of French philosopher Henri Bergson.… Continue reading
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Is there actually no Martha in the Gospel of John?
After obtaining an online translated transcription of Papyrus 66, the oldest copy of the Gospel of John, Schrader discovered that the name Mary had been crossed out twice. The first time “Mary” was changed to say “Martha,” and the second… Continue reading
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Relentlessly and randomly curious
When you’re curious about something, you’re pulled off in multiple directions. Your eye can be snagged by some seemingly inconsequential dimension. ~ Tyson Lewis Continue reading
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Grateful emptiness
Babies loudly screaming—so much substance!Youth intensely playing —missing no substanceAdults quietly plotting—obsessed with substance.Elders silently waiting—all substance gone.Grateful emptiness—how much longer? 04 September 2019Willow Springs Rehabilitation CenterAbilene, TX Continue reading
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