Philosophy as a Way of Life
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The Pretense of Accident: Yearning, Not Gripping, for Happiness | On Being
When we are in a state of delusion, we are disconnected from how things actually are in the present moment. We don’t know where we are; we don’t have a sense of where we are coming from, nor where we’re… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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2015 in Blogging at Reason and Existenz
Thanks to all of my new and old friends who have visited my blog and shared posts around the net. Here is a nice overview of the year for this site: http://keithwaynebrown.com/2015/annual-report/ Continue reading
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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
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Big Idea List for 2015
I am very happy to hear that my good brother (and graduate director) finds his new book, A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking, on the DailyBeast’s Big Idea List for 2015. Congrats, Adam Briggle! If your idea of a philosopher is… Continue reading
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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
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The rise in stock of philosophy graduates | World news | The Guardian
“A degree in philosophy? What are you going to do with that then?”Philosophy students will tell you they’ve been asked this question more times than they care to remember.”The response people seem to want is a cheery shrug and a… Continue reading
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thing think thank 2
Another holiday season begins and another year draws slowly to a close. Nations often set aside an end-of-year reflection to encourage their people to look back on whence they came in order to better glimpse where they are going. Thanksgiving… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Is Nothing
A stream of consciousness composition as I wandered around the University of North Texas. The morning of this composition I was just on the edge of detaching from a two week depression that had been filled with a few peaks… Continue reading
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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
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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
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#atemporality
Really great youtube channel to which the buddy-friend-guy introduced me. Continue reading
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