Category: AnarchoCynicism
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Demostrophe
I am playing at neologisms. That must mean I am reading Heidegger. Today’s entry in the Brown Book of Jargon… DEMOSTROPHE: the turning of the people as a group, the turning in the flow of power. I am coining this term to take the place of market adjustment. More later.…
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Precautionary – Proactionary
My colleagues J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle have encouraged and helped to inaugurate a preprint service at the Review and Reply Collective for the journal Social Epistemiology. The first preprint to appear is their new collaborative piece which “explores the relationship between knowledge (in the form of scientific risk…
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Rolling Stone on how the Illuminati is maybe not so impossible
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this…
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This Image Should NOT be Seen by the Whole World | How to be an Anthropologist
I find the Facebook meme distressing, not because of the Belo Monte Dan Project, but because the author and all of the people who share it have fed into and bolstered (even if unknowingly) a narrative that depicts indigenous people as sad and powerless and awaiting the benevolence of people from…
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Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions By Barbara Raab, Senior Producer, NBC News This is the time of year many high school seniors are getting their long-awaited, highly anticipated college acceptance letters. See on inplainsight.nbcnews.com Related articles Organizing Adjunct Faculty (breadandrosesradio.wordpress.com) 10 Ways to Inspire Your Colleagues As An Educator…
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Can We Rethink the World?
I know that we can rethink the world; moreover, I believe that we should. Henry Giroux and Brad Evans are both public intellectuals very well worth engaging. Please let me know what you think. I also recommend learning about the Public Intellectual Project and the Histories of Violence Project. Related articles…
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Whatever, Etc. 00023
If you have a spare 25 minutes, I continue forward with thinking about the Loving Struggle. The text that I quote at length in this talk: I cannot accomplish this communicative struggle by the rational force of argument, but neither can I accomplish it without the most lucid rationality. I cannot realize…
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How does Vandana Shiva do it?
Reading Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other works that are transforming my anarchocynicism, my thoughts keep returning to Vandana Shiva. “[How do I do it?] Well, it’s always a mystery, because you don’t know why you get depleted or recharged. But this much I know. I do not allow myself…
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Originally posted on Earthling Opinion: –by Sharon Salzberg (Mar 15, 2013) A friend of mine, at the end of a retreat, offered a provocative reflection that intrigued and inspired me. After looking intensively at her inner experience for nine days of meditation and seeing many of her life choices in a brand…
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Originally posted on Some anarchist reviews of stuff: Noir & Rouge n°17 (January/February 1961) The Difficulty Of Being An Anarchist By Christian Lagant “We are not presenting a grand-sounding manifesto because we do not believe in revealed and immutable Bibles. We believe it to be more realistic, more constructive and…
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SMTV: AMERICA’S MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN
Originally posted on lookinbeyondthereal: The former National Educational Television (1952–1970) PBS has published a remarkable documentary on the life of Emma Goldman. They’ve also created a special museum like website, featuring an entire volume of Goldman’s anarchist magazin Mother Earth, a detailed map of Goldman’s US tour, a timeline, a…
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Overcoming Sectarianism
Sectarianism, fed by fanaticism, is always castrating. Radicaliza-tion, nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative. Sectarianism mythicizes and thereby alienates; radicalization criticizes and thereby liberates. Radicalization involves increased commitment to the position one has chosen, and thus ever greater engagement in the effort to transform concrete, objective reality. Conversely,…
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Originally posted on stuffgradslike: If your eyes jumped to the title of this post, then this is probably for you. The natural trajectory of most jobs for college grads (well, really all, in a sense) is that you will leave them! If you have a degree, it’s time to make a…
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The Tenth Dimension
So, there is a lot of mind blowing thinking out in the realm of contemporary physics. Those of us who know the history of philosophy are not afraid to call a good deal of this metaphysics. Certainly, it is the kind of contemplation that can only be approached–even using the…
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Originally posted on Footnotes2Plato: Latour is introduced by professor of physics Wilson Poon, who publicly confesses to being a great admirer of Latour’s work. Latour, thinly veiling how tired he is of the “Science Wars,” thanks him for the “rare confession”: “I don’t have many friends among physicists.” Poon contributes…
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Diogenes in the Marketplace > Babette Babich
A most joyous thing to read for an old anarchocynic like myself… But ‘know thyself” works dialectically in an extraordinary way to make such sundering readings redundant: “for Thales, knowledge of the heavens and self-investigation could proceed directly parallel to each other.” (537) (Peter) Sloterdijk ends here in a fashion…
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Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing
I am sure that if you look through my site, you would find me to be some kind of Buddhist social critic. I post all kinds of Buddhist sayings as well as lots of material on the Society of Control and the fate of Millennials. Somewhere in there you would…
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