-
Saartjie Baartman and colonial capitalist obsession
Baartman’s story is a tragic tale of colonialism, and one of the more egregious examples of the West’s exploitation of black women’s bodies. Her body had value because it was considered exotic, like any other animal housed in a cage at the zoo. Baartman was likely the first African woman many Londoners had ever…
-
The Pretense of Accident: Yearning, Not Gripping, for Happiness | On Being
When we are in a state of delusion, we are disconnected from how things actually are in the present moment. We don’t know where we are; we don’t have a sense of where we are coming from, nor where we’re going. The result is that we feel helpless, and possibly…
-
Slowing Down the Perception of Time
Wherein our intrepid Camera Master, Randall Collis, converses with a theoretical physicist. Talk about mindwalking! “It is sad, we get older and our brain becomes efficient because we are boring!” she laughs. “Without adventure, life will fly right on by.”Her eyes lock in on mine, and I am surprised how a…
-
Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life
I got up yesterday–o3 January 2016–realizing the I was fed up with Facebook. I want to keep blogging, but what is the real use of sustaining Facebook? Sure, I’ll still let things from here cross post over there. But here’s what smacks of 21st century idiocy: giving my energy to…
-
Joined-to or Joined-with the Education Complex?
An update of a post I made two years ago before I decided to go all in and get my MA and PhD: Lunch time and my thoughts turn to all of my friends who are independent scholars. Many of them are working as adjuncts. A few have a longer…
-
Chaos Counseling
Of course I practice Chaos Magick–what do you think AnarchoCynicism is other than the socio-political expression of something that is a profound F*CK YOU to all institutional power? The fact that I have a nihilistic character that dresses like a rainbow that throws on a novelty T-Shirt before proceeding to…
-
God & Governing in Texas
A documentary-style series from The Texas Tribune on the role legislators’ personal faith plays in their policymaking. Source: God & Governing | The Texas Tribune
-
Charlie Rose interviews George Lucas
Some people have been saying this is just sour grapes. Meh. I’ve watched the full interview, and I don’t get that George Lucas is all that bitter. He actually is admitting that the difference between him–even with all of his hyper control of the franchise–is that he did not always if…
-
Paranoid Style of American Policing
…It will not do to note that 99 percent of the time the police mediate conflicts without killing people anymore than it will do for a restaurant to note that 99 percent of the time rats don’t run through the dining room. Nor will it do to point out that…
-
Bank Bail-Ins Begin
If you have more money in bank accounts than I have–or probably ever will have–you might want to learn what the difference is between bank bail-outs and bank bail-ins. Very much worth a couple of reads. Over-extraction of all capital resources continues apace in the Society of Control… Dodd-Frank states…
-
2015 in Blogging at Reason and Existenz
Thanks to all of my new and old friends who have visited my blog and shared posts around the net. Here is a nice overview of the year for this site: http://keithwaynebrown.com/2015/annual-report/
-
Professors remain blind to boom in humanities
Gotta love that crisis mentality. Cause the sky be falling and falling. Youth are too fragile and the humanities have no future among our youth. Part this arises from seeing how administrators treat humanities programs and politicians deride them. Part of it also comes from that same cherry picking of…
-
Big Idea List for 2015
I am very happy to hear that my good brother (and graduate director) finds his new book, A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking, on the DailyBeast’s Big Idea List for 2015. Congrats, Adam Briggle! If your idea of a philosopher is some ivory tower denizen with nothing but contempt for real-world…
-
Cherry Picking, False Nostalgia, and the invention of Boredom
Sometimes, I wonder at how much Boomers–the most privileged generation in the history of humankind–feel compelled to call today’s youth fragile, lazy, coddled, etc. To lament how things are not as awesome as they were “back then.” I am so over the notion that because we have social media we…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
You must be logged in to post a comment.