Philosophy as a Way of Life
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#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
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TRUDGERY in Academe
With this semester, I have begun the official work toward a PhD. There is always more to learn. And classes provide a way of finding new dialogpartners. I am struggling to find a proper balance between ordering my Socratic desire and meeting… Continue reading
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Question-Knowing
none else can ever deconstruct the paint layered facades that hide reality thought concept belief singularity intertwining mist where I and not-I ever flow toward and away from each other and nothing thought concept belief All falls to one who stumbles in two which skitters… Continue reading
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Global Financial Capitalism’s Brutal Logic
A very interesting video interview with sociologist Saskia Sassen. Very well worth your 20 minutes. Continue reading
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The Big (Soul) University
The entire existential project behind Karl Jaspers’ Idea of the University involves integrating a professor’s research with students’ search for their own selves. The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself… Continue reading
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Aphorism 05Oct2015
Either I risk myself venturing into the world and beyond—or I never will have my ownmost Self as freedom Continue reading
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A Fixed Idea by Amy Lowell
What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant; and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its presence. Dull remembrance taught Remembers on unceasingly; unsought The old delight is with us but to find… Continue reading
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Neoliberalist Humanities
It is not the humanities per se that are under attack. It is learning: learning for its own sake, curiosity for its own sake, ideas for their own sake. It is the liberal arts, but understood in their true meaning,… Continue reading
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Philosophy Majors Out-Earn Other Humanities Grads
It’s been said in many places before: A degree in the humanities isn’t exactly marketable to employers (less kind critics have called those degrees “useless”). But there’s one humanities major whose graduates are doing quite well in the job market—and… Continue reading
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Lost art of speaking to a mass audience
According to [John Armstrong, University of Melbourne] the way [the professionalization of the humanities] all got started was an accident of history that divorced the humanities from a mass audience. “They were set up without any concern for marketing because… Continue reading
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@nihilist_arbys: the perfect lunch for #anarchocynicism
Laugh at the absurdity of #consumption… let your laughter be the soundtrack of living from #Oblivion2Oblivion. Welcome to Arbys. Can I help you? JK. No one can. Which dead animal would you like to waste a few minutes of your useless life… Continue reading
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Yes, Your Opinion Can Be Wrong
The worst phrase to show up in any discussion: “It’s just my opinion.” Is your opinion informed with cogent facts? It could very well be right. And more than likely, you will not preface the statement with “It’s just my… Continue reading
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The nerd’s guide to learning everything online
When I meet youth who have gaps in their education about American or World history, American or World literature, or the basics of science, I recommend them to find John Green’s Crash Course project with this brother, Hank. Fill in some of… Continue reading
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Buddhism and Psychedelic Methods
Austin Hill Shaw examines the nature of creativity, cosmology and psychedelic communion. Shaw practices in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition, “taking refuge in the Buddhist path” since 2002. Rather than seeing the use of psychedelic substances as antithetical to a Buddhist… Continue reading
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From “Remediation” to “No Excuses”: The Indignity of Deficit Thinking | the becoming radical
While apologists for Southern heritage remain unable or unwilling to confront the blatant racism of the Confederacy, many today remain nearly universal in our inability or unwillingness to recognize and then confront racism, classism, and sexism in the form of deficit… Continue reading
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Project Vox
Project Vox concerns the next major scholarly development: the acknowledgement that a number of early modern women have been unjustly ignored in our narratives. From Lady Masham, Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway in England to Émilie Du Châtelet in France,… Continue reading
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Hacking Education Begins with Good Habits and Practical Knowledge
I often talk with youth (here and here are some examples) about how what they are doing in high school and/or university may not be giving them everything they need. There are lot of ways, however, that the system can… Continue reading
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‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman
@aoscott reviews Why Grow Up? Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age. the present and its technological lures and discontents, thankfully, are not really [Susan Neiman‘s] concern, any more than the jeremiad is her chosen form; she comes across as a patient pedagogue… Continue reading
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