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What is Philosophy?
As always, most excellent thinkering from a most excellent person. I recommend engaging this to get some touchstones for the importance of beginnings. As Meister Eckhart encourages us all, “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” For me,… Continue reading
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Max Liboiron at #AnthropocenePHL
The opening keynote at the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia was Prof. Max Liboiron: How We Do Science on Permanent Plastic Pollution. Max Liboiron is a feminist environmental scientist, science and technology studies (STS) scholar, and activist. As an Assistant Professor in Geography… Continue reading
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Socrates in the Anthropocene
I want to thank Scott Knowles for encouraging me to leave my little town of Denton, Texas, and come up here for the Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia at Drexel University. A word of warning as I follow up my colleagues on the roving… Continue reading
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Abnormal Responses: Coaxing Animal Being into a Clearing
There is a great responsibility in being those who not only name things but gather the world. Surely a part of that responsibility rests in letting things simply be themselves and not be turned toward some human end. It means… Continue reading
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The revolutionary spectator
…there is another way to understand the seeming paradox presented to us by nonviolent activists and their occasional praise of violent actors. And that is to see them as partaking in a tradition of “revolutionary spectators,” who simultaneously refuse to… Continue reading
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New TV AntiHeroes as archetypes of the American nightmare
This seems right to me. The dark heroes or antiheroes of TV–and I would go back to The Sopranos for the beginning of this–represent the fundamental fear of the “middle class” losing everything in one fell swoop. Life becomes about… Continue reading
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Caring less
Andrew Taggart at QUARTZ… Once we’ve gotten the knack for embracing the idea that certain things in life are wondrous because they’re not focused on getting through, onto, or ahead of something, we can turn our attention to ourselves, inquiring… Continue reading
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INTRO TO PHIL, fall 2017
I will be saving my white boards here for my students. From time to time, I will record by lectures. But I won’t be doing this everyday like I did in my summer Existentialism course. Questions raised in morning class… Continue reading
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School Zones: A Meditation
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishment after I’m dead. Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian No good… Continue reading
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Prof. Shabazz on Spatializing Blackness thru Architectures of Incarceration
Explores how carceral power and the techniques of containment were woven into the quotidian geographies of poor and working class Black people on Chicago’s South Side. Through an examination of housing, policing, and the production of masculinity, Shabazz demonstrates how… Continue reading
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How the Republican party quietly does the bidding of white supremacists
The lesson from Charlottesville is not how dangerous the neo-Nazis are. It is the unmasking of the Republican party leadership. In the wake of last weekend’s horror and tragedy, let us finally, finally rip off the veneer that Trump’s affinity… Continue reading
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…if not for the anarchists and antifascists
Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking about the terror in Charlottesville. The white supremacist violence there began Friday night as hundreds of neo-Nazis, KKKmembers and other white nationalists… Continue reading
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I’m Not Your Exception
Originally posted on Holding Patterns and High Tea: CN: discussion of microaggressions, gendered expectations, transphobia, transmisogyny There is a thing cis people often do when trans people come out to them. They say something like, “I just love you for… Continue reading
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A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like
Whatever happens in Washington, we can start building an internet that respects our rights on the local level. What would be the best route for creating community broadband in your community? In cities and towns, it’s probably through a municipal… Continue reading
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Whiteness is Dead | The Wild Hunt
Highly recommend a read through of this… Whiteness is dead. James Baldwin proclaimed it back in 1972, prophesying ominously that there would be “bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come.” The holding actions have gotten bloodier… Continue reading
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