Category: Whatever
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A dancing star in a constellation of lies
Am I decent man? Perhaps. I would use this opportunity to speak about myself with some pleasure (Dostoevsky 7). But I am not sure it is such a pleasure. Does decency really only allow me to speak about myself? Certainly, speaking from my ownmost experiences discloses me to others. Except,…
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Sun – Line – Cave, Part 1
A dear colleague has invited me to discuss a few of the metaphors at the heart of Plato’s Republic. So I’ll be live streaming from his class Friday, 26 Feb 2016 @ 1pm… if you are not busy at work or just hanging around the house, join us. Or watch…
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Mind Walk 17 Feb 2016
N. and I go wandering around Denton thinking about Carlos Castaneda and letting the thoughts wander with us.
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Global climate change, local hard choices
“Development” multiplies desires and transforms them into needs. But we are the ones who are under-developed – spiritually shallow, debilitated by needs, distracted by things. I wonder about climate change and children. How and when to tell them the bad news? It’s like Santa Claus – all that so-called supernatural…
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Evaluating broader impacts
Part of my research assistantship this semester had me helping to complete the organization of a workshop in Washington, DC – Feb 10 & 11, 2016. I had been involved with this project since the grant was originally received 18 months ago. I am happy to pass along here a…
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eating oats
Well… I need to write something. Odd that I do not care to write but can be spurred by watching the beginning of a film—Mr. Holmes—after eating a bowl of steel cut Irish oats… suddenly this desire to “record something.” There I am finishing the last bit of my tasty…
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Is the age of globalization also a new era for protests?
A spate of studies and meta-analysis in recent years depict how large-scale citizen mobilisations have been intensifying for more than a decade, reaching a new peak in the past five years. According to the conclusion of an extensive study examining the complexities of global protests, “The current surge of protests is more global than…
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The Junkie Deva at 102
Here is to the author who gave Gilles Deleuze the nomenclature for the Society of Control; the man who became for me the DEVA of the Cut-Up, the Process by which I sublimated my melancholy in the mid-90s. Happy birthday Mr. Burroughs. How do you write a masterpiece? It’s inside you, you know it’s inside you: How…
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Millennials, Struggle, and Bernie
Corey Robin does an excellent response to a piece by Alexandra Schwartz at the New Yorker concerning the hope millennials find in Bernie Sanders. I want to thank my buddy-friend-guy Chris for talking over these things with me last night. While I am still uneasy with all politics, Sanders…
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The Only Animals With Chins
Pigs don’t have chins. Nor do any animals, except for us. The lower jaw of a chimpanzee or gorilla slopes backwards from the front teeth. So did the jaw of other hominids like Homo erectus. Even Neanderthal jaws ended in a flat vertical plane. Only in modern humans does the…
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Nootropics or Smart Drugs
Important caveat for those thinking smart drugs can make a person more intelligent: Like any performance enhancer, there has to be a core level of intelligence or athleticism to be augmented. Welcome to the world of nootropics, or smart drugs. Nootropics (derived from Greek words that mean to bend the…
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#UnderSiege #MahmoudDarwish
Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken shadows, We do what prisoners do, And what the jobless do: We cultivate hope. *** A country preparing for dawn. We grow less intelligent For we closely watch the hour…
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Public memory, propaganda, and ethics
My colleague is trying to get his students thinking about ethics by putting forward an issue of public morals and conscience. I agree with him that this monument to the Confederate Soldiers of Denton, Texas, should be removed. I was a bit more over the top in what I thought…
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The itch nobody can scratch
A real indictment of “business as usual” where “business” is the medical industrial complex. via The itch nobody can scratch — Matter — Medium.
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Seen on the street
For all the free minds out there: Shake off the shackles to liberate the thinking mind Source: Seen on the street
CALL ME MAGGIE 