Category: Philosophy as a Way of Life
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Women in India Aren’t Safe on Twitter Either — Matter — Medium
In addition to harassing women simply because they are women with opinions that differ to their own, some of these men have also imported India’s fault lines of caste and communalism onto social media. They attack women who belong to marginalized communities, tarnishing the modern world with their hateful old…
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On the Black Universe in the Human Foundations of Color on Vimeo
Francois Laruelle’s aphoristic philosophy of color. via On the Black Universe in the Human Foundations of Color on Vimeo.
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Moving Toward the Great Companion
O Thou Encompassing, thou All, thou One Thou Beauty! Thou Truth! Thou Goodness! Letting-go of Suffering. ceasing Frustration. I come now-here: Waking up and opening out. Moderation and Courage Clear a place for Prudence Fortitude and Justice Build a dwelling for Wisdom Let me take on the Piety of Thinking.…
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Freed from Gubment, Slaves to Gawd
Libertarianism is a form of anarchism. As an anarchocynic, I am fine with certain forms of American libertarianism. I’ve had very productive dialogs with more than a few very thoughtful folk who have deep libertarian convictions. Unfortunately, that is a minority experience. I can always tell how quickly the conversation…
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Maya Angelou, Resquiat in Pacem
Archive of a great in-depth interview with the great Maya Angelou over at the Paris Review. This interview was conducted on the stage of the YMHA on Manhattan’s upper East Side. A large audience, predominantly women, was on hand, filling indeed every seat, with standees in the back . .…
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The Dignity of Solitude
In a post two months back, I listed the four moral attitudes that Jaspers holds as the necessary conditions of existential communication. At the top is “the dignity of solitude.” I collect here a few insights on solitude in faith for the benefit of my good brothers and sisters throughout…
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Entranced by Reality | The American Conservative
This incisive portrait graces the cover of Robert Zaretsky’s smart, galvanizing new book, A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning. Zaretsky’s slim volume churns between sympathetic biography, basic textual exegesis, and his own Camus-inspired reflections. The book is structured around five untidily overlapping themes, each the…
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Building a Movement for Happiness
Vermont and Bhutan have embraced happiness rather than GDP as a measure of social success. The world’s happiest countries share surprising characteristics – a small gap between rich and poor; work-life balance; urban design favoring community over cars; high degrees of interpersonal trust; a strong social safety net, and the…
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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 of debt, the security-surveillance state, the corporatization of higher education,…
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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 equal protection from discrimination should not reduce down to the…
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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.
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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 – About URI.
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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 workers are fighting back against the “externalization” of the crisis…
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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.
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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 partly autobiographic scifi novel where Dick literally wrote himself into…
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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 are worth reading, including several by previous Moyers & Company…
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