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Category: Method or META HODOS

• AnarchoCynicism Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS

  Situating Street Artists

  Cool. Filmmakers Z.S. Grant and John Carr have spent the better part of the past year ricocheting around the country, capturing the stories of politically minded street artists for their documentary series, “Voice of Art.” Their eight-episode Web series — currently airing on rapper Pharrell Williams’ YouTube channel, i am…

  November 21, 2012
• AnarchoCynicism Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  The relationship between direct speech and philosophical inquiry « Andrew Taggart

  I was privileged to have Andrew Taggart share an early copy of his new manual The Art of Inquiry. I highly recommend this 21 st century enchiridion to everyone who would like to take up philosophizing as a way of life. Here in his latest blog entry, Andrew elucidates the import…

  November 20, 2012
• Method or META HODOS Philosophy as a Way of Life

  Philosophizing & Inspiration

  Because I spend so much time being concerned that philosophizing as a way of life is about helping folks figure out how to live better lives, many professional philosophers do not think I am a “philosopher.” I am cool with that, believe me. While inspirational materials can sometimes become a…

  November 16, 2012
• Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  Textimony 20121112

  This Beautiful Order chants the Song of Love. The origin, a soft sigh. The end, a fading echo. Between? A profound harmonic: “Yes, yes, yes… without regret!”

  November 12, 2012
• Control Method or META HODOS

  

  Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity

  Epistemology can be translated as the study of how we know or an account of how we know. In the article I link to below, UT PhD candidate Mark Coddington does a nice job delineating the different situations which generate the epistemological orientations of political journalists vs. that of social…

  November 8, 2012
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  Poll Quants & the Book of Life

  I’ve been unpacking my notions about the Society of Control a lot in the last few months. Primarily of late, this centers on developing the notion that control is about accounting… we use a mathematical model to translate the Life-World into the Book of Life. Among the methodological tools for…

  November 6, 2012
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  The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic

  The ongoing struggles with encoding the Book of Life. It is The Future. You wake up at dawn and fumble on the bedstand for your (Google) Glass. Peering out at the world through transparent screens, what do you see?  If you pick up a book, do you see a biography…

  October 31, 2012
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  Charles Tart: Self Observation (excerpt) – A Thinking Allowed DVD with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove – YouTube

  I am not a Freudian, but I do appreciate the thrust of this dialog. The prerequisite for Profound Reflection 401 is Introductory Introspection 101… not on the list of any philosophy or any psychology class schedules I know about.

  October 30, 2012
• AnarchoCynicism Control Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  How do we Shape Souls Without Longing?

  Nice looking backward at Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. Deneen correctly locates the import of the text in its prescient concern with the dis-ease of indifference. Today we live in a different age, one that so worried Bloom—an age of indifference. Institutions of higher learning have almost completely abandoned…

  October 28, 2012
• Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Whatever

  Detaching-Letting Go-Releasing Yourself

  A nice blog entry from over at Miati Notes on Toxic Relationships that certainly goes to the heart of what I have been feeling over the last few days. As listening to Frank Herbert’s Dune this morning reminded me of the Litany Against Fear, this post by Miati reminds me…

  October 11, 2012
• AnarchoCynicism Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  A Boon of Dandelions 3

  These past weeks since my brother’s death, fear has hunted me. Or better, I have hunted myself… for I have not been afeared of what might actually do me harm right now or even partially down the line of life. Terrified by my own imaginings, I trembled at the possibilities…

  October 11, 2012
• Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  be happy, do nothing… « lederr

  From Lederr‘s blog… Canadian social psychologist Jamie Gruman is proposing a new way of achieving nirvana: Do nothing. Instead, live in the moment and embrace the “serene and contented acceptance of life as it is, with no ambitions of acquisition, accomplishment or progress toward goals,” said Gruman, co-founder of the…

  October 6, 2012
• Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS

  

  Scape by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers

  Not one to advertise things for the iPad, but so many of my buddies are musicians who will find this of great interest.

  September 25, 2012
• Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  Textimony 20120923

  Attend. Adjust. Acknowledge: Unhindered by regret, this WAY lets-go the insolence reposing within success & embraces the humility residing within failure

  September 24, 2012
• Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  The Method of the Moon Bridge

  The Moon was one of humankind’s first measures for time. Thus, to this day the word “month” recalls that original measurement. “Moon” itself probably arises from a variation of the Indo-European term “me-” which is also the root for “to measure” and “to mean,” thus related to “mind,” as the…

  September 23, 2012
• Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  Tolkien & Teaching

  In his mythology, Tolkien tells us that the elves crossed the sea in rebellion, and even those who linger yet in Middle Earth do not forget and yearn for a return to their land of origin.  For elves, the sea is a mixed blessing.  In rebellion, many of them crossed it…

  September 23, 2012
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  Pedagogy by Carrot

  The majority of students today expect assignments with finite parameters, clear grading paths, and a checklist of things they can tick off to get an A. “Pick my own topic for an essay? What do you mean by that? What topic do you want me to pick? Is there a…

  September 18, 2012
• Art/Skill/Techne Control Method or META HODOS

  TechnoScience & the New Pedagogy

  In the past, the suggestion of getting a college degree without ever cracking a book meant paying a degree mill. It meant the degree was in name only, reflecting neither learning nor effort. Then distance learning meant correspondence courses, perhaps combined with some coordinated telecasts. Technology has already changed all…

  September 17, 2012