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Originally posted on Speculative Heresy: Call for Participation – Committee To Discuss Project Joan of Art: Towards a Free Education System Hypothesis: Freedom in an unfree society can only be feigned. Such a feigning is by definition an artistic act. In a post-political age art bears a social responsibility. ‘Joan of…
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Originally posted on iamadam: “The distinction between men and animals is in one sense only a difference in degree. But the extent of the degree makes all of the difference. The Rubicon has been crossed” (p. 27). via Philosophy of the Human in Whitehead and Schelling (response to Knowledge-Ecology). via The Rubicon…
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Interesting.
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n+1: Death by Degrees
Here we have someone laying out some good lines on the real pay to play at the heart of our quickly crumbling meritocracy n+1: Death by Degrees.
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Originally posted on Joyous Crybaby: German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, by Leandro Gonzalez de Leon. In my continuing effort to bring a variety of voices to this blog, I give you another guest post, this one a philosophical contemplation about “authenticity.” This post dovetails nicely with the one I did…
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The Revolt of the Masses & the Politics of the Big Lie
I am reminded, while reading this article, of Jose Ortega y Gasset’s Revolt of the Masses. One thing characterizing “mass humanity”–what I like to call the Ones-at-Large–is the notion that they do not need to be taught, they do not need to learn. An interesting aspect of our current “constant education”…
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90 Million Workers Won’t Be Needed By 2020, Study Says
For developing countries to combat long-term joblessness, the study said, they need to double or triple the capacity of their high schools and vocational schools, double or triple their labor-intensive exports, and double or triple their investment in infrastructure and housing construction to employ lower-skill workers. via 90 Million Workers…
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Garage Sale Existentialism | The New Existentialists
As the urban treasure hunters stop to peruse the wares, a very poor rendition of bedouin negotiating takes place between two suburbanite stalkers, one striving to sell his or her “valuable” wares and the other seeking to gain a prize at the lowest price possible. In this entrepreneurial dance of…
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Stars, Planets And The Meaningless Life : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
The talks on Kepler were delightful and I drank in all the new science like a thirsty kid on a hot summer day. But none of what I learned pushed me out of my comfort zone and on to the ledge of my own mortality. Then, innocently, one of the…
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Becoming Integral: We have never been disenchanted
As always, something of interest from Sam at Becoming Integral. 8ˆ) http://becomingintegral.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/we-have-never-been-disenchanted/#comment-173
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Daily chart: Buy me a river | The Economist
The weekly magazine The Economist reports on a new index that attempts to take stock of countries’ total wealth… Daily chart: Buy me a river | The Economist. I shared this with my beloved friend Alex Mosiak. Here is our interchange: Me: What do you think of this? Alex: In general,…
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@FANDOR: Edvard Munch by Peter Watkins
http://www.fandor.com/flash/player.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fandor.com%2Fplaylists%2Fedvard_munch
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