AnarchoCynicism

My personal brand of philosophy.

  • The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson

    Happy birthday RAW! If you have about 90 minutes to spare, you would learn a great deal from watching this little documentary.   Continue reading

    The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson
  • Bitter Lake – Adam Curtis 

    Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis – leaving us bewildered and disorientated.… Continue reading

  • Jane Bennet on Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter

    Jane Bennet discusses her broader phenomenology of the material world. Hosted by the New School.   Continue reading

    Jane Bennet on Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter
  • Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life

    I got up yesterday–o3 January 2016–realizing the I was fed up with Facebook. I want to keep blogging, but what is the real use of sustaining Facebook? Sure, I’ll still let things from here cross post over there. But here’s… Continue reading

    Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life
  • Chaos Counseling

    Of course I practice Chaos Magick–what do you think AnarchoCynicism is other than the socio-political expression of something that is a profound F*CK YOU to all institutional power? The fact that I have a nihilistic character that dresses like a… Continue reading

    Chaos Counseling
  • Charlie Rose interviews George Lucas

    Some people have been saying this is just sour grapes. Meh. I’ve watched the full interview, and I don’t get that George Lucas is all that bitter. He actually is admitting that the difference between him–even with all of his hyper… Continue reading

    Charlie Rose interviews George Lucas
  • Professors remain blind to boom in humanities

    Gotta love that crisis mentality. Cause the sky be falling and falling. Youth are too fragile and the humanities have no future among our youth. Part this arises from seeing how administrators treat humanities programs and politicians deride them. Part… Continue reading

    Professors remain blind to boom in humanities
  • Cherry Picking, False Nostalgia, and the invention of Boredom

    Sometimes, I wonder at how much Boomers–the most privileged generation in the history of humankind–feel compelled to call today’s youth fragile, lazy, coddled, etc. To lament how things are not as awesome as they were “back then.” I am so… Continue reading

    Cherry Picking, False Nostalgia, and the invention of Boredom
  • Loving Struggle, Possible Existenz

    Philosophizing must be a work of art that is always on the brink of failure; a befriending of the power of imaginative vision that already stretches too far until it reaches contradiction and breaks down. Only in this reaching beyond… Continue reading

  • Refusal and Re-Fusing

      When the anarchocynic sets aside wildness in favor of propriety, (s)he becomes a tool of conservation rather than a mode of entropy. Anarchocynicism refuses disciplinary constancy which separates actor from action. Anarchocynicism re-fuses the alienated individual within World-Being.   Continue reading

  • Gestures of Belonging

    The fall has brought to fuller expression many notions with which I have been struggling for decades. The process of getting to a greater clarity has been difficult on my personal and professional relationships. In striving to find a path between friends… Continue reading

    Gestures of Belonging
  • Philosophical Espresso

    If you have not had a chance to watch Jason Silva do his philosophizing flow on his vlog, here are a few examples. Good stuff. Continue reading

    Philosophical Espresso
  • forgetful, forgotten control

    There are no first or third worlds. No developed or underdeveloped nations. There is only convergence to and divergence from the Society of Control. The Society of Control is a series of Alpha-Cities–New York, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, Paris, etc.–interconnected… Continue reading

    forgetful, forgotten control
  • Brick Lotus

    Slippers slipping off my feet Adjusting my new inserts Adjusting my old soul Stopping at the brick lotus Sitting in the Sun awhile Material conditions of Mindfulness Lower back pain Blurry eyes Big fat stomach Dry skin on my forehead… Continue reading

    Brick Lotus
  • #atemporality

    Really great youtube channel to which the buddy-friend-guy introduced me. Continue reading

    #atemporality
  • #rationihilization

    When an otherwise reasonable person–who like all humans depends on comparative sense-making–reaches the limits of thinking where all comparisons fail and, rather than admitting “I don’t know”, declares that everything is meaningless. This requires him/her to ignore the performative irony that… Continue reading

    #rationihilization
  • Global Financial Capitalism’s Brutal Logic

    A very interesting video interview with sociologist Saskia Sassen. Very well worth your 20 minutes. Continue reading

    Global Financial Capitalism’s Brutal Logic
  • Aphorism 05Oct2015

    Either I risk myself venturing into the world and beyond—or I never will have my ownmost Self as freedom Continue reading

    Aphorism 05Oct2015