Category: Philosophy as a Way of Life
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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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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 jokey ‘don’t know’,” says Joe Cunningham, 20, a final-year philosophy…
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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 begins this period for us in the United States. Admittedly,…
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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 does philosophizing return to World-Being. Only in this belonging in…
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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.
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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 and freedom, scholarship and truth, stumbling into others and knocking…
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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.
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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 of resentment and lows of self-loathing.
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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 to each other by a Global Network of Financial Growth…
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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 Burning in the cool wind Some lotion, some rubbing Facing…
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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 he/she supposedly just used meaningful thought to declare that everything makes no-sense. (Should…
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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 the requirements put forward for demonstrating basic knowledge. That means…
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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 as three that breaks up every thing–uncountable adventures walking running rolling and…
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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.
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