Art/Skill/Techne

  • Charlie Rose interviews George Lucas

    Some people have been saying this is just sour grapes. Meh. I’ve watched the full interview, and I don’t get that George Lucas is all that bitter. He actually is admitting that the difference between him–even with all of his hyper… Continue reading

    Charlie Rose interviews George Lucas
  • Cherry Picking, False Nostalgia, and the invention of Boredom

    Sometimes, I wonder at how much Boomers–the most privileged generation in the history of humankind–feel compelled to call today’s youth fragile, lazy, coddled, etc. To lament how things are not as awesome as they were “back then.” I am so… Continue reading

    Cherry Picking, False Nostalgia, and the invention of Boredom
  • 10 things we learned about ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ from the novelization

    Star Wars: The Force Awakens didn’t just delight audiences and smash box-office records. It raised many, many questions. Some ofthose questions won’t be answered until Episode VIII in 2017, but The Force Awakens’s novelization, published on Dec. 18 by Random House,… Continue reading

  • Ms. Holly Woodlawn R.I.P.

    It is with great sadness that I must report the death of Ms. Holly Woodlawn, actress and Warhol girl. Requiat in pacem, miss thing. Continue reading

    Ms. Holly Woodlawn R.I.P.
  • Loving Struggle, Possible Existenz

    Philosophizing must be a work of art that is always on the brink of failure; a befriending of the power of imaginative vision that already stretches too far until it reaches contradiction and breaks down. Only in this reaching beyond… Continue reading

  • Refusal and Re-Fusing

      When the anarchocynic sets aside wildness in favor of propriety, (s)he becomes a tool of conservation rather than a mode of entropy. Anarchocynicism refuses disciplinary constancy which separates actor from action. Anarchocynicism re-fuses the alienated individual within World-Being.   Continue reading

  • Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley

    The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom—  Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters—with a sound but half… Continue reading

  • unbroken but stretching

    disconnecting slowly strings of attachment unbroken but stretching unfortunate end Continue reading

    unbroken but stretching
  • Gestures of Belonging

    The fall has brought to fuller expression many notions with which I have been struggling for decades. The process of getting to a greater clarity has been difficult on my personal and professional relationships. In striving to find a path between friends… Continue reading

    Gestures of Belonging
  • Philosophical Espresso

    If you have not had a chance to watch Jason Silva do his philosophizing flow on his vlog, here are a few examples. Good stuff. Continue reading

    Philosophical Espresso
  • Pax Coffea – the role of coffee in troubling times

    An essay very much worth the read from barista and coffee specialist Peter Giuliano: …how we can use coffee- which is after all the subject dearer to me than any other- as a tool in the fight for good and for… Continue reading

  • Is Nothing

    A stream of consciousness composition as I wandered around the University of North Texas. The morning of this composition I was just on the edge of detaching from a two week depression that had been filled with a few peaks… Continue reading

    Is Nothing
  • licking fingers, touching pages

    a civilization of fetishists not surprising really see how we treat the book as idol the paragraph the sentence the phrase the word and yet we wonder how could people commodify and even fuck clothing shoes cars but it is… Continue reading

    licking fingers, touching pages
  • impossible exchange

    born within the ground bourne upon the wind, every word is prophesy to the death and resurrection of our impossible exchange our loving struggle our communication Continue reading

    impossible exchange
  • red gold

    sunlight embraces face (gold red eyelid kisses) november wind   Continue reading

  • this fork

    fingers extending metallic scraping against a plate grabbing bits of a food delivering to a mouth laying on a tongue flavor, sustenance then letting-go and forgotten chew chew clink clink rest Continue reading

    this fork