Philosophy as a Way of Life
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Noam Chomsky and the Public Intellectual in Turbulent Times
…[Noam Chomsky’s] many recent books, articles, and interviews have addressed how the new reign of neoliberal capital is normalized not only through military and economic relations but also through the production of new forms of subjectivity organized around the enslavement… Continue reading
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The Aesthetic of the Gay Askesis
Here, Michel Foucault philosophizes in an 1981 interview. Central to his thinking in this back and forth is that being gay transcends the established laws and common customs. It is important to think with him on this. The struggle by LGBTQ for… Continue reading
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We are nothing (and that is beautiful)
A really wonderful TEDx. Continue reading
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Cognitive Consistency and Fan Girls
Great video from Dave at Boyinaband podcasts. This one examines Fangirling in light of the broader phenomenon of cognitive consistency. Good, thought provoking overview of both. Continue reading
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United Religions Initiative
The purpose of the United Religions Initiative is to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings. via United Religions Initiative –… Continue reading
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Welcome to the Edu-Factory Collective
We are amidst a great thaw, where the taboo topic of academic exploitation, once privatized and blamed on “failed” individual scholars, is being rendered unavoidable and recognized as a systemic and pervasive problem. More accurately, the university’s most vulnerable academic… Continue reading
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DFW and YOU: Paradise
A project from my friend Natalie S. and her colleagues in the RTVF program at UNT. DFW and YOU: Paradise from DFWandYOU on Vimeo. Continue reading
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Erik Davis on VALIS, P.K.D. and High Weirdness | Reality Sandwich
Great interview after the jump… As part of the inaugural reread series on Reality Sandwich, Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis and Nomad Codes, spoke with me recently about the “High Weirdness” of Philip K. Dick and the postmodern pink-gnosis of VALIS, a… Continue reading
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Reactions to ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ | Blog, Perspectives | BillMoyers.com
As Bill mentions in this week’s show, a lot of (digital) ink has been spilled over Piketty’s book. Reviewers have called it “a bulldozer of a book,” “magisterial,” “seminal,” “definitive,” “a watershed.” Below is a selection of reviews we think… Continue reading
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Enjoying the powerless features of Democracy
Not really all that amazing but it does make one want to say something facile like “amazing” . Plutocracy is alive and thriving while the great mass of citizens play at republican democracy, enjoying all the best features–like voting, a… Continue reading
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Finding Life After Academia — and Not Feeling Bad About It – NYTimes.com
According to a 2011 National Science Foundation survey, 35 percent of doctorate recipients — and 43 percent of those in the humanities — had no commitment for employment at the time of completion. Fewer than half of Ph.D.’s are expected… Continue reading
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‘You must change your life’ or ‘You must change life’?
Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: This is the first set of reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). * ‘You must change your life,’ writes Peter Sloterdijk in his eponymous book of philosophy. His… Continue reading
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The Prize
Possible Existenz is always a surprise because there is no reprising it as objective experience. Unrepeatable and unutterable, Existenz is as nothing to the enterprises of the everyday which comprise the inauthentic tales of being “me”. Such narratives are misprisions… Continue reading
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For Jared
What is care of the self? Do we mean care of the I or care of the body or care of the being with an I in a body or care of the body with an eye for an I?… Continue reading
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True Path
1. The true path is along a rope, not a rope suspended way up in the air, but rather only just over the ground. It seems more like a tripwire than a tightrope. Franz Kafka, Zurau Aphorisms “Tightrope Walkers” by Remedios… Continue reading
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Reference
Once I happened to visit a museum with a friend more versed in painting than I. His remarks, his very presence, keyed the sensibilities with which I was able to see. I saw more, and I saw in a different… Continue reading
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Revisiting the Loving Struggle
Some videos I made a few years back to take folx along a meandering path toward Karl Jaspers’ notion of the “Loving Struggle.” Continue reading
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