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  • @nihilist_arbys: the perfect lunch for #anarchocynicism

    Laugh at the absurdity of #consumption… let your laughter be the soundtrack of living from #Oblivion2Oblivion. Welcome to Arbys. Can I help you? JK. No one can. Which dead animal would you like to waste a few minutes of your useless life… Continue reading

    @nihilist_arbys: the perfect lunch for #anarchocynicism

  • Why are the most important people in media reading The Awl?

    All swept along by algorithms of persistent evolution. A nice companion piece to the blog entry from Philosophical Disquisitions on the import–philosophically and sociologically–for thinking the importance of algorithms in our lives… But Herrman and Buchanan are wary of the distorting… Continue reading

  • The Philosophical Importance of Algorithms

    Interesting insights from a philosopher I will be keeping an eye on… Once we appreciate the increasing ubiquity of algorithms, and once we understand the two translation problems, the need to think critically about algorithms becomes much more apparent. If… Continue reading

    The Philosophical Importance of Algorithms

  • #blacklivesmatter Socio-economic conditions across the US

    According to Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Senior Director of the Economic Department at the NAACP Financial Freedom Center, “It’s one thing to end segregation, but it’s another thing to talk about billions of dollars of investment.” When the United States invested in… Continue reading

  • The Radical Solution is Absolution

    We are exhausted by capitalism. The problem: how do I make a living without others taking advantage of me or without me taking advantage of others? This is a serious question and one that must be wrestled with at every… Continue reading

    The Radical Solution is Absolution

  • #Fracketeering: Solutions for the Society of Control

    My colleague Adam Briggle has been very active intellectually and politically with local bans on fracking in my hometown of Denton. In a dialog we had recently, I mentioned to him that fracking bans–and the ban on bans–could be read differently… Continue reading

    #Fracketeering: Solutions for the Society of Control

  • Fracking and environmental (in)justice in a Texas city

    Ecological Economics publishes a peer reviewed econo,if and environmental justice study of shale gas development in my hometown of Denton, Texas. The article is co-authored by my  colleagues Matthew Fry, Jordan Kincaid and Adam Briggle. You can access the full text for… Continue reading

  • From “Remediation” to “No Excuses”: The Indignity of Deficit Thinking | the becoming radical

    While apologists for Southern heritage remain unable or unwilling to confront the blatant racism of the Confederacy, many today remain nearly universal in our inability or unwillingness to recognize and then confront racism, classism, and sexism in the form of deficit… Continue reading

  • Project Vox

    Project Vox concerns the next major scholarly development: the acknowledgement that a number of early modern women have been unjustly ignored in our narratives. From Lady Masham, Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway in England to Émilie Du Châtelet in France,… Continue reading

  • Interrupting Pride for Black Lives

    Black, queer, trans, criminalized – the young people who put together Sunday’s event are living on the front lines of struggle in this country. They are to our times what the early trailblazers of the gay rights movement were to… Continue reading

  • Hacking Education Begins with Good Habits and Practical Knowledge

    I often talk with youth (here and here are some examples) about how what they are doing in high school and/or university may not be giving them everything they need. There are lot of ways, however, that the system can… Continue reading

    Hacking Education Begins with Good Habits and Practical Knowledge

  • Irony Incarcerated

    Below is a picture of a product made by unpaid Texas prison inmates who work for extra privileges (like time off of their sentence, the ability to buy goodies at the commissary, exercise in the yard, etc.). They get rooming,… Continue reading

  • Why We Need Philosophers Engaged In Public Life

    UC-Berkley psychology professor, Dr. Tania Lombrozo, makes an argument for why we need more philosophers engaging in the public realm. Say “philosopher” and most people imagine a bust of Socrates, obscure texts or intellectual tête-à-têtes in the so-called Ivory Tower,… Continue reading

  • Revisionist Betrayal

    We owe it to ourselves and to our descendants to be always open to reconsidering history. But there is a difference between taking back up an account to make it more rigorous and adopting a wholesale lie that makes us… Continue reading

  • justification

    journeying unto something tracking incompleteness finishing into counter affectations twisting incongruence onto nihilism Continue reading

  • For Consideration: Sales Pitching

    Ideas are not offered for slow consideration anymore so much as they are offered for quick sale. That thought came to me this morning while watching a documentary. I don’t really think it matters what the film series was… this was… Continue reading

    For Consideration: Sales Pitching

  • The racism of millennials

    The danger in invoking the myth of the presupposed racial tolerance of millennials (and subsequent generations) is that it works to absolve today’s society of actively confronting and undoing the damage of the legacy of slavery, segregation and institutionalized racism.… Continue reading

  • Pope Francis and Integral Ecology | Becoming Integral

    The new encyclical by Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On the Care of our Common Home, contains many references to “integral ecology,” including an entire chapter by that title. It’s relatively clear that Francis is working with the integral ecology proposed… Continue reading