Category: Philosophy as a Way of Life
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Man Bites Dogma – A RAW Conversation
He’s been called a cult figure to various lunatic fringe groups, Tom Robbins calls him “a dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway of higher consciousness,” he calls himself an iconoclastic comedian, and whether Robert Anton Wilson is a philosopher or a…
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Nootropics or Smart Drugs
Important caveat for those thinking smart drugs can make a person more intelligent: Like any performance enhancer, there has to be a core level of intelligence or athleticism to be augmented. Welcome to the world of nootropics, or smart drugs. Nootropics (derived from Greek words that mean to bend the…
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Cagey Anarchism
More than two decades after Cage’s death, a small press called Siglio has published a definitive edition of his major long text. Starting in 1965, Cage developed a poetic form he titled a Diary and accurately described as “a mosaic of ideas, statements, words, and stories.” Among the constraints informing…
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Academia as mechanical productivity
like the Whatever Etc page if you use Facebook. It is amazing how the machinery of academia has been turned on by someone and just left running… Like a Charlie… Posted by Whatever Etc. on Friday, January 22, 2016
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Public memory, propaganda, and ethics
My colleague is trying to get his students thinking about ethics by putting forward an issue of public morals and conscience. I agree with him that this monument to the Confederate Soldiers of Denton, Texas, should be removed. I was a bit more over the top in what I thought…
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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.
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Loving devotion
Caring for another, being-open for that other and to that other: these are aspects of our animated existence, of our being-with others. Do not fail to see devotion where it appears nor fail to appreciate how all life teaches us lesson in being-here.
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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.
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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.
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Callicott to receive life-time achievement award
Wonderful news concerning my teacher, colleague, and friend J. Baird Callicott. I am very proud to report that the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture announced that they are awarding J. Baird Callicott their first Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the study of…
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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 going. The result is that we feel helpless, and possibly…
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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 what smacks of 21st century idiocy: giving my energy to…
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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 rainbow that throws on a novelty T-Shirt before proceeding to…
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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 control of the franchise–is that he did not always if…
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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/
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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 of it also comes from that same cherry picking of…
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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 some ivory tower denizen with nothing but contempt for real-world…
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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 over the notion that because we have social media we…
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