Category: Whatever
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Bringing out the dead
Being in academia, asked to do what academics do to show they are really academics, makes me feel dead inside. The world doesn’t need more proliferating monographs and essays. It needs thinkers who will spend time with young people one on one or at least in small numbers to encourage…
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Research method: napping
Over the years as I worked through the #trudgery of academic assignments, napping has become an important aspect of my process. I read and write on a subject for a few hours. Then I drink about 8 ounces of black coffee, just at the moment I feel really tired. I lay…
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Why professionalize my self?
Today is sitting around at Big Mikes coffee shop—reading, writing, editing, organizing and pondering. Usual Sunday. Usual day of late. I am not really sure why I am a graduate student. As one of my professors reminds us in class, nobody “accidents into graduate school.” Or, “You’re graduate students, you’re not…
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Why Some Societies Practiced Ritual Human Sacrifice – The New York Times
Nice to see that neoliberal doctrines of global financial capitalism in the society of control keep alive at least one grand old tradition from our forebears: sacrificing lives to ensure social stratification. [A] new study published Monday in Nature revisits the ancient practice [of human sacrifice] to look for fresh insights… scientists…
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General Kafka
“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.” ― Franz Kafka, The Trial something happened we cannot know details rest assured… it happened not a good thing a hushed thing sitting now with other somethings denied specifics silent but rest assured: something will…
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self conspiracy
“i” as useful designation like a storm front like a bright day changing temperaments one and then another always another forecaste now is here and then is there here is now and there is then no-thing stable enough to be as selfish conditions favorable for change again appropriate means arise…
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Confronting and Rejecting Jargon and Practices Reinforcing Racism/Classism in Education
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: Doreen Massey recounts her experience with a “customer liaison” at an art exhibition, leading her to note: This is a crucial part of the way that neoliberalism has become part of our commonsense understanding of life. The vocabulary we use to talk about…
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#Trumpdacity
I mean, folks are still going to be voting for this schmuck because his populism completely outstrips the need to tell anything even resembling the truth. This speech basically performs a hearty fuck-you to the world, a dance of shameless audacity the says, “Look-come on-the folks want to vote for me…
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Zen Anarchy
And nothing is fixed! The famous master Hyakujo wanted to find an abbot for a monastery. He put a pitcher on the floor and asked what it was, adding, “Don’t say it’s a pitcher.” Some of the smarter monks came up with smart things to say. Then Isan the cook…
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#MAHATMA – Life of Gandhi (abridged)
This is the abridged version (2hrs 15min) of a 5hrs 10min documentary biography of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi. All events and principles of Gandhi’s life and thought are viewed as integrated parts of his truth-intoxicated life depicting permanent and universal values.The purpose of the film is to tell the present and…
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Bhakti
Beginning to gather up different pictures of the god Hanuman for my research. Hanuman, a key figure in the Ramayana and totally dedicated follower of Sri Rama, represents the deep devotion (bhakti) of life to the Divine.
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Your Own Historical Jesus
Who was the historical Jesus of Nazareth? What did he actually say and do, as contrasted with what early Christians (e.g., Paul and the Gospel writers) believed that he said and did? What did the man Jesus actually think of himself and of his mission, as contrasted with the messianic…
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Whatever, Etc. 0037: Justice and the Tripartite Soul
I was asked to drop by and engage in Dialog this evening, Mar 03, at 6pm, with some of my compatriots who are doing a close reading of Plato’s Republic. Live-streaming this for those who want to watch at home or catch it later on Youtube. They are reading Book…
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