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  • “Flown” by Carl Bajandas

    New kinetic sculpture by my beloved brother Carl Bajandas. You should check out his entire youtube channel.

  • Class, Race, & Economic Discipline

    As always, a nice find by my good brother Carl Sachs. Very interesting. Notwithstanding slavery, segregation and today’s covert racism, the Southern system has always been based on economics, not race.  Its rulers have always seen the comparative advantage of the South as arising from the South’s character as a…

  • Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity

    Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity

    Epistemology can be translated as the study of how we know or an account of how we know. In the article I link to below, UT PhD candidate Mark Coddington does a nice job delineating the different situations which generate the epistemological orientations of political journalists vs. that of social…

  • Racial Excuses Already

    Election night is not even over and Bill O’Reilly already sets the stage for the resentment parade. At first I was going to go through and take it on point by point. But it literally began to make me feel hopeless. Fox News panders to the worst aspects of our…

  • London at night | sethsnap

    Just discovered Seth Johnson’s photography after he liked one of my reposts. Really great stuff over there at sethsnap. I recommend you take a few minutes to surf around his pages. Well worth the time. For instance, London at night | sethsnap.

  • Zen Teacher Anita Feng

    A very cool studio interview by Buddhist Art News. I visited the raku studio of artist and zen teacher Anita Feng in late August at the height of Indian summer. The trees had not yet caught fire, but the air held an expectant shimmer. Within a few weeks the leaves…

  • Poll Quants & the Book of Life

    Poll Quants & the Book of Life

    I’ve been unpacking my notions about the Society of Control a lot in the last few months. Primarily of late, this centers on developing the notion that control is about accounting… we use a mathematical model to translate the Life-World into the Book of Life. Among the methodological tools for…

  • Drinking alone with the Moon…

    Drinking Alone with the Moon From a pot of wine among the flowers I drank alone.There was no one with me — Till raising my cup, I ask the bright moon To bring me my shadow and make us three. Alas, the moon was unable to drink And my shadow…

  • The Antidote to Ayn Rand < Truthout.org

    The last word of Ayn Rand’s dystopian novella Anthem is “EGO.” Grasping the significance of this forbidden word is a kind of divine revelation for the novel’s protagonist, signaling his emancipation from the benighted, collectivist society into which he was born. I read Anthem in the 8th grade and, like…

  • Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine

    Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine

    Really bad ass unofficial video for Kanye West’s “Who will survive in a America…” Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine | Design Graphic & Photography Inspirations.

  • Textimony 20121104

    In decisive existence, reason embraces emotion & passion, undoing fear’s grip so that desire may touch our great possibility in this Beautiful Order: Freedom.

  • Textimony 20121101

    Conditions where desire or fear overtake to unmake us: a mind full of superfluity, a belly empty of nutrition, and a heart out of sync with itself.

  • A Boon of Dandelions 5

    Creatures of emotion. & passion… reason is not our better power but our guiding power, our focus & adjustment. To sense, to cognize,  to remember, to imagine, to judge, to believe: these are all ways that we reason. Brought together in mindfulness honed by decisive purpose, our emotions ground us…

  • Textimony 20121018

    A distinction betwixt youthful choice & decisive mastery: a youth gives answers & gets time; a master forgets answers & forgives time. Graceful oblivion.

  • The Intelligencers and the Fifth Moon of Jupiter: Alchemy in the American Colonies « Newtopia Magazine

    Next time somebody tries to pull the “America was founded by good Christians who were regular church goers, pull this info out on them. Thanks to Zeteticus @ Soul Spelunker for Scooping this interesting piece. Puritan alchemists founded America; sounds like bad fiction but it’s fact.  As befits a young…

  • The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic

    The ongoing struggles with encoding the Book of Life. It is The Future. You wake up at dawn and fumble on the bedstand for your (Google) Glass. Peering out at the world through transparent screens, what do you see?  If you pick up a book, do you see a biography…

  • Crashed car sculpted from painted people

    Crashed car sculpted from painted people – StumbleUpon http://ow.ly/eSAYn

  • The politics of prudence; or, how I learned to stop worrying about climate change and love therapeutic nihilism | csid

    Nice new piece from Kelli Barr, one of my colleagues at CSID: Frankenstorm Sandy, currently ravaging the northeastern US, is testament enough to the predictable unpredictability inherent in global warming. What I mean by “predictable unpredictability” is something like the following: though we cannot know exactly how individual weather systems…