AnarchoCynicism
My personal brand of philosophy.
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Reversion, Reconciliation, and the loving struggle
A bit of knowledge-gathering for making restorative justice a part of my way of life. Continue reading
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Cuba Responding through Its Own Revolutionary Rhythm.
The Cotton Belt in the Southern USA—the area of almost total cotton growing through Jim Crow—has a lot in common with the history of the folx oppressed in the West Indies. We would do well to think about what we… Continue reading
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In all this extremism, can abolition work?
Abolitionist philosophy is precisely what is missing from the current conversation. #transist #transform #transcend Continue reading
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Always some other’s fault
Rather than deal with our own inadequacies, Americans seek some other to blame. Continue reading
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Two front institutional battles
Progressives are always fighting the system to change rules and struggling to overcome bad faith actors who abuse the rules within the system. Continue reading
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CMM0013–ORDER OF FLO with Joy and Rivkah
Drawing on themes from queer theory and responding to COVID-19, “Order of Flo” playfully dances along the lines of destiny at the intersection of bodily motion and mindful emotion. Melting the presentations of drag, queer bodies, and weird minds, “Order… Continue reading
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We are the children of the cosmos
Does your thinkering lead to making or to doing? Does your doing and your making lead to thinkering? Continue reading
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Gerrymandering and Woke capitalism
Repuglican Farty politicians have gerrymandered their way into not even knowing where corporations are coming from let alone most American citizens. Continue reading
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Beholding the beheld
Truth, Beauty, and Joy each have different kinds of ideas and facts. Not knowing this distinction allows systemic bigotry to continue oppressing folx despite contradictory scientific discoveries, socio-cultural evolution, and personal evidence. Continue reading
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Decolonizing Prehistory with World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture
“The idol was carved during an era of great climate change, when early forests were spreading across a warmer late glacial to postglacial Eurasia,” Dr. Terberger said. “The landscape changed, and the art — figurative designs and naturalistic animals painted… Continue reading
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TRUMPISM as multiracial whiteness
The attraction of Trump for Latino voters is the promise of multiracial whiteness. Rooted in America’s ugly history of white supremacy, indigenous dispossession and anti-blackness, multiracial whiteness is an ideology invested in the unequal distribution of land, wealth, power and… Continue reading
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boring bourgeois banal
The thematic of my life is loving struggle through the fundamental attunement of profound boredom. Continue reading
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Buttigieg’s Lies of Omission
Growing up in Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg never had “to jump a ditch” to get where he wanted to go. Continue reading
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Get to know PROF. MARK LANCE
Mark Lance, Ph. D., is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University as well as a co-founder there of the Program on Justice and Peace. Continue reading
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Fallen — Forlorn — Forsaken
As I approach my 55th birthday this weekend, I really cannot tell if I am getting depressed or just bored in my situation. So much feels like “going through the motions.” After 25 years wandering along the margins of academia,… Continue reading
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Arriving by assistance of the Whole
Most who brag of being self-made—to the point of believing their own rhetoric—sooner or later will find themselves self-unmade. Yet even in this, they will become an unmaking alongside all those of whom they took advantage in Violent Struggle. Continue reading
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Finding a Way: Faith in Times of Crisis
“Philosophy is the faith which unifies man.” —Richard M. Owsley[1] For the entirety of my life in Bible Belt Texas, I have encountered both religionists and atheists who interpret “faith” as an irrational action: a totally emotive, rationally groundless hope… Continue reading
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