Philosophy as a Way of Life
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Caring about the immunocompromised
Good article for thinkering about an ethics of care for those who are most vulnerable during this pandemic… Close to 3 percent of U.S. adults take immunosuppressive drugs, either to treat cancers or autoimmune disorders or to stop their body from rejecting… Continue reading
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The American Maginot Line
A couple of links to very helpful information for those who have never given much consideration to how the US/Mexico border represents and enforces American Imperialism and settler colonialism. For most Americans, there is a lot still to learn; these… Continue reading
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Tattleware developed for the next BS War on Workers
There absolutely has been a breach of trust between employer and worker, but it’s not up to us – the underpaid and the stressed-out and the very tired and exploited – to prove we deserve our independence. Employers need to… Continue reading
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Professors on contingent contracts are ESSENTIAL
Until faculty realize that their vocation as MAGISTERS and DOCTORS, as those with TEACHING authority, actually transcends the MINISTERIAL and CURIAL power of adMINistrators and trustees, they will continue to launch little more than empty critiques of neoliberalization. Continue reading
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A Black Odyssey: Coming from Slaves and Studying Slavery | Society for Classical Studies
My nephew, Javal Coleman, who studies Classics at UT-Austin just published this reflection. When I began my undergraduate career at the University of North Texas, I was not sure what period of history would keep my attention. I enjoyed American… Continue reading
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Professors indoctrinating students? In reality, it’s the other way around
Rather than radicalizing them, I am more radicalized by all these millenials and zoomers who long to comprehend the world they are inheriting from people like me. Continue reading
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Reversion, Reconciliation, and the loving struggle
A bit of knowledge-gathering for making restorative justice a part of my way of life. Continue reading
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Magic and Mechanics
Explore the historic connection between magic and mechanics. Continue reading
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Cuba Responding through Its Own Revolutionary Rhythm.
The Cotton Belt in the Southern USA—the area of almost total cotton growing through Jim Crow—has a lot in common with the history of the folx oppressed in the West Indies. We would do well to think about what we… Continue reading
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In all this extremism, can abolition work?
Abolitionist philosophy is precisely what is missing from the current conversation. #transist #transform #transcend Continue reading
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Always some other’s fault
Rather than deal with our own inadequacies, Americans seek some other to blame. Continue reading
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Two front institutional battles
Progressives are always fighting the system to change rules and struggling to overcome bad faith actors who abuse the rules within the system. Continue reading
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CMM0013–ORDER OF FLO with Joy and Rivkah
Drawing on themes from queer theory and responding to COVID-19, “Order of Flo” playfully dances along the lines of destiny at the intersection of bodily motion and mindful emotion. Melting the presentations of drag, queer bodies, and weird minds, “Order… Continue reading
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We are the children of the cosmos
Does your thinkering lead to making or to doing? Does your doing and your making lead to thinkering? Continue reading
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Gerrymandering and Woke capitalism
Repuglican Farty politicians have gerrymandered their way into not even knowing where corporations are coming from let alone most American citizens. Continue reading
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Beholding the beheld
Truth, Beauty, and Joy each have different kinds of ideas and facts. Not knowing this distinction allows systemic bigotry to continue oppressing folx despite contradictory scientific discoveries, socio-cultural evolution, and personal evidence. Continue reading
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Decolonizing Prehistory with World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture
“The idol was carved during an era of great climate change, when early forests were spreading across a warmer late glacial to postglacial Eurasia,” Dr. Terberger said. “The landscape changed, and the art — figurative designs and naturalistic animals painted… Continue reading
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