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  • Fairy Tales: Honest Harshness, Wishful Hoping

    Folktales, bedtime stories, and reworked myths open us up to the power contained in the “amoral scheme of the world.’ Fantastic images can become mundane by having pithy morals at the end… but they can be reinvigorated and lead beyond… Continue reading

  • Science Fiction and the Post-Ferguson World: “There Are as Many Ways to Exist as We Can Imagine”

    Walidah Imarisha, a writer and activist, coined the term “visionary fiction” to describe how we can use science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres to envision alternatives to unjust and oppressive systems.I talked with Imarisha about how science fiction can inspire… Continue reading

  • Getting Started with Phenomenology

    Someone on Quora asked, “What primary and secondary sources should I read if I want to better understand phenomenology and the phenomenological method?” I always steer folks wanting to learn about phenomenology in the direction of getting a good foundation in… Continue reading

    Getting Started with Phenomenology

  • Speaking in Tongues

    humming refrigerator pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral tapping keyboard pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral cursor flashing on screen pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral breathe breathe breathe where mind wanders at night along the pathways… Continue reading

    Speaking in Tongues

  • detachment – non-clinging – letting-go

    philosophizing as a way of life: the willingness to embrace uncertainty, and the will to ask questions. loving – believing – living Continue reading

  • More on the Night Vigil

    Continuing to collect every bit of popular writing that points out the importance of the night vigil…even if that is not what they call it. 🙂 …humans did not evolve to sleep through the night in one solid chunk. Until… Continue reading

  • Socratic Love

    Love is simple. Continue reading

    Socratic Love

  • Zanotti Explores the Philosophy of Everyday Life

    In his first chapter, “What Is Philosophy?” Zanotti explains precisely why philosophy and life are so intimately bound together. The author recalls a time when he reached a crossroads in life, and was presented with two fundamental choices: live or be… Continue reading

  • Ressentiment on Aug 17

    Ressentiment Feeling again the “cause” of frustration but the cause has no real effect feeling again only my imagination brings about this personal defect getting stuck in futures now/here superseded beyond where I’m butchered forward falling, impeded being stuck in… Continue reading

    Ressentiment on Aug 17

  • A Shot And A Book: How To Read In Bars : NPR

    Reading requires — especially today — intense discipline and the capacity to sit still and engage. It’s a skill you can develop, this quieting of the mind. Some books make it easier than others, sure, but the fact remains: A… Continue reading

    A Shot And A Book: How To Read In Bars : NPR

  • The Dignity of Solitude

    In a post two months back, I listed the four moral attitudes that Jaspers holds as the necessary conditions of existential communication. At the top is “the dignity of solitude.” I collect here a few insights on solitude in faith… Continue reading

    The Dignity of Solitude

  • Cymatics

    Cymatics (from Greek: κῦμα “wave”) is the study of visible sound and vibration, a subset of modal phenomena. Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm, or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in… Continue reading

    Cymatics

  • ‘You must change your life’ or ‘You must change life’?

    Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: This is the first set of reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). * ‘You must change your life,’ writes Peter Sloterdijk in his eponymous book of philosophy. His… Continue reading

    ‘You must change your life’ or ‘You must change life’?

  • Reference

    Once I happened to visit a museum with a friend more versed in painting than I. His remarks, his very presence, keyed the sensibilities with which I was able to see. I saw more, and I saw in a different… Continue reading

    Reference

  • 3D insect flight

    @BBCNews reports XRay video of flying insect. A team of scientists from Oxford University, Imperial College, and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland have used very intense X-rays to film inside an insect as it flies. The footage is a… Continue reading

    3D insect flight

  • Mona Lisa stopped smiling – A Conversation on the Phenomenology of News | Circa Blog

    If the goal of the news is to make sense of the world — then we must “model” the shape of the world with our stories. I would argue many traditional tools and processes reflect the world, but don’t model… Continue reading

    Mona Lisa stopped smiling – A Conversation on the Phenomenology of News | Circa Blog

  • Feel like shouting!

    So much hatred and dread in this old world. So much love and joy. All is flowing… all this beauty and happiness punctuated with this every day struggle and frustration. To be in this wonderful flowing reality and not let… Continue reading

    Feel like shouting!

  • Becoming the Vessel | The Ptero Card

    An informative piece from Ptero9 that reminds me how much philosophizing requires going to the margins or as Jaspers would call it, the boundary situations, where we engage in the loving struggle with others who are also attempting self-actualization. So,… Continue reading

    Becoming the Vessel | The Ptero Card