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January 6, 2013

How reading flip-flops from digital to physical | Books | The Observer

Robin Sloan, author of Fish, the acclaimed iPhone essay featured here a few months ago, used the term “flip-flop” to define an increasingly common process by which a work of art moves between different formats, and specifically between the physical… Continue reading

January 5, 2013

What is and What is not: Parmenides, Negation, and the Limits of Thought | noir realism

From Parmenides to Spinoza and Hegel and beyond the monism of the identification of Mind and Being, or Cognition and its Object has fought itself out in the struggles of philosophical speculation. Are the wars over? No. Can there ever… Continue reading

January 4, 2013

Improving Leadership Through Connected Learning |

Creating your own personal learning network (PLN) is what authentic education is all about: being open to your possibility by engaging your situation with what others are doing in the world. This goes hand in hand with the the 7… Continue reading

January 4, 2013

Alchemy in Jacob Boehme’s Theosophy | Down the Rabbit Hole

During the Early Modern Period the world was undergoing a major transition from a geocentric to a heliocentric cosmogony; from an occult and animistic landscape to a mechanistic and reductionist one defined by mechanistic processes that operated independently of any… Continue reading

December 20, 2012

Meditatio

You can listen to a piece that I put together called Meditatio by clicking here. Continue reading

December 19, 2012

Whatever, Etc., 00022: The Loving Struggle, Part 2

December 18, 2012

Henry A. Giroux | The War Against Teachers as Public Intellectuals in Dark Times

…In the name of austerity, schools are defunded so as to fail and provide an excuse to be turned over to the privatizing advocates of free-market fundamentalism. In this discourse, free-market reform refuses to imagine public education as the provision… Continue reading

December 15, 2012

3quarksdaily: Active Imagination

In many ways, Jung has aged worse than Papa Freud. His world now seems quaint and naïve in its lack of suspicion and irony, in its insistence on treating symbols as universal, in its belief that all peoples are telling… Continue reading

December 11, 2012

Whitehead’s Organicism & Contemporary Cosmology

Thought provoking piece from Footnotes 2 Plato. Very much worth your time and engagement good brothers & sisters of the Ethersphere. Supposing a properly physical (if not fully metaphysical) “grand unifying theory” is eventually discovered, there still remains the philosophical… Continue reading

December 7, 2012

Driving toward Innovation

Humans have drives–natural & social. Our natural drives we may call our instincts for survival. Our social drives we might refer to as our habits for success. Obviously, in all things, there are times when natural & social impulses conflict.… Continue reading

November 25, 2012

Stoic Pragmatism // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Most of us have heard about that exemplary fool, Molière’s Monsieur Jourdain, who was astonished to discover in middle age that he had been speaking prose all his life. After perusing John Lachs’s wise and lively Stoic Pragmatism, many readers will… Continue reading

November 21, 2012

Sendicate: Reinventing Email Newsletters

Cool idea shared over at Pandodaily on making email newsletters easier & more enticing. There is something really nice about email, and I am happy to see that not everyone is giving up completely on the platform. Last month, I… Continue reading

November 21, 2012

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 —… Continue reading

November 20, 2012

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.… Continue reading

November 16, 2012

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… Continue reading

November 12, 2012

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!” Continue reading

November 8, 2012

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… Continue reading

November 6, 2012

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… Continue reading