Category: AnarchoCynicism
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Cognitive Consistency and Fan Girls
Great video from Dave at Boyinaband podcasts. This one examines Fangirling in light of the broader phenomenon of cognitive consistency. Good, thought provoking overview of both.
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Welcome to the Edu-Factory Collective
We are amidst a great thaw, where the taboo topic of academic exploitation, once privatized and blamed on “failed” individual scholars, is being rendered unavoidable and recognized as a systemic and pervasive problem. More accurately, the university’s most vulnerable academic workers are fighting back against the “externalization” of the crisis…
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Erik Davis on VALIS, P.K.D. and High Weirdness | Reality Sandwich
Great interview after the jump… As part of the inaugural reread series on Reality Sandwich, Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis and Nomad Codes, spoke with me recently about the “High Weirdness” of Philip K. Dick and the postmodern pink-gnosis of VALIS, a partly autobiographic scifi novel where Dick literally wrote himself into…
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Reactions to ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ | Blog, Perspectives | BillMoyers.com
As Bill mentions in this week’s show, a lot of (digital) ink has been spilled over Piketty’s book. Reviewers have called it “a bulldozer of a book,” “magisterial,” “seminal,” “definitive,” “a watershed.” Below is a selection of reviews we think are worth reading, including several by previous Moyers & Company…
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Enjoying the powerless features of Democracy
Not really all that amazing but it does make one want to say something facile like “amazing” . Plutocracy is alive and thriving while the great mass of citizens play at republican democracy, enjoying all the best features–like voting, a good amount of freedom of speech, a certain amount of…
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Finding Life After Academia — and Not Feeling Bad About It – NYTimes.com
According to a 2011 National Science Foundation survey, 35 percent of doctorate recipients — and 43 percent of those in the humanities — had no commitment for employment at the time of completion. Fewer than half of Ph.D.’s are expected to land tenure-track jobs. And many voluntarily choose another path…
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For Jared
What is care of the self? Do we mean care of the I or care of the body or care of the being with an I in a body or care of the body with an eye for an I? What is care of the self? Taking up in this…
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Revisiting the Loving Struggle
Some videos I made a few years back to take folx along a meandering path toward Karl Jaspers’ notion of the “Loving Struggle.”
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Textimony 20140311
Laboring at life as a distracted employee? Embrace existence as loving diversion! Let go of the ordinary: Allow yourself to be out-of-order.
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Textimony 20140306
Free to doubt this human frailty –a gasp, a tear, a touch, a laugh– forsaken of any certainty: at play in wonder. Let-go. Love. Live.
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How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine | The Nation
Mechanical Turk is the innovation behind “crowdworking,” the low-wage virtual labor phenomenon that has reinvented piecework for the digital age. Created by Amazon in 2005, it remains one of the central platforms—markets, really—where crowd-based labor is bought and sold. As many as 500,000 “crowdworkers” power the Mechanical Turk machine, while…
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Burned, Bombed, Beaten
Education is under attack worldwide. The report issued by the United Nations speaks to conditions in the most physically violent locales around the globe. We should pay close heed to these. Because they are the physical counterpart of the psychosocial warfare being waged on instructors in places like the United…
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Forgetful echoes
“Only thoughts that are randomly born die. The other thoughts we carry with us without knowing them. They have abandoned themselves to forgetfulness so that they can be with us all the time.” E. M. Cioran, The Book of Delusions (1936) “Except it have a meaning, a word is but…
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The Question Concerning Technoscience
A good show from the BBC. I begin the episode a bit of the way in. Worth watching the whole thing, but this gives you a taste of things to come in Humanity 2.0… Maybe.
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Playfulness: the Point of Existence
“A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other…
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