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10 things we learned about ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ from the novelization
Star Wars: The Force Awakens didn’t just delight audiences and smash box-office records. It raised many, many questions. Some ofthose questions won’t be answered until Episode VIII in 2017, but The Force Awakens’s novelization, published on Dec. 18 by Random House, reveals that there’s much more to the characters and situations…
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The rise in stock of philosophy graduates | World news | The Guardian
“A degree in philosophy? What are you going to do with that then?”Philosophy students will tell you they’ve been asked this question more times than they care to remember.”The response people seem to want is a cheery shrug and a jokey ‘don’t know’,” says Joe Cunningham, 20, a final-year philosophy…
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Lectures on Gramsci
Originally posted on Bob Jessop: This module introduces the work of Antonio Gramsci and its relevance to the arts, humanities and social sciences. It deals with the life and work of Gramsci, outlines the principal influences on his intellectual and political analyses, and some key concepts deployed in his work.…
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The “Well-Off” Worker and the Global Capitalist Rewards System
I would disagree with this article a little bit. The diverse means of compensation given the “well-off” worker–paid sick leave, paid vacation, healthcare, pension plan, etc–are not really privileges. But maybe we should think of them as privileges because quasi-job-security has a kind of lottery quality to it: Look how few good jobs there…
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‘A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking,’ by Adam Briggle – The New York Times
Adam Briggle–my friend, colleague, and PhD director–gets a nice review of his latest book from the New York Times. Really glad to see this. Many reviews closer to Texas and to PetroDollars totally mischaracterized this important book. In his investigation of what determines people’s attitudes toward progress and technology, Briggle makes…
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Ms. Holly Woodlawn R.I.P.
It is with great sadness that I must report the death of Ms. Holly Woodlawn, actress and Warhol girl. Requiat in pacem, miss thing.
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thing think thank 2
Another holiday season begins and another year draws slowly to a close. Nations often set aside an end-of-year reflection to encourage their people to look back on whence they came in order to better glimpse where they are going. Thanksgiving begins this period for us in the United States. Admittedly,…
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Loving Struggle, Possible Existenz
Philosophizing must be a work of art that is always on the brink of failure; a befriending of the power of imaginative vision that already stretches too far until it reaches contradiction and breaks down. Only in this reaching beyond does philosophizing return to World-Being. Only in this belonging in…
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Refusal and Re-Fusing
When the anarchocynic sets aside wildness in favor of propriety, (s)he becomes a tool of conservation rather than a mode of entropy. Anarchocynicism refuses disciplinary constancy which separates actor from action. Anarchocynicism re-fuses the alienated individual within World-Being.
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Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom— Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters—with a sound but half its own, Such as a feeble brook will oft assume,…
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Stefan Zweig: On The Daemonic and Tragic Worlds | dark ecologies
Whatever strives to transcend the narrower boundaries of self, overleaping immediate personal interests to seek adventures in the dangerous realm of inquiry, is the outcome of the daemonic constituent of our being. But the daemon is not a friendly and helpful power unless we can hold him in leash, can…
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Interview: Nicholas Tampio on Deleuze’s Political Vision
Source: Interview: Nicholas Tampio on Deleuze’s Political Vision
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unbroken but stretching
disconnecting slowly strings of attachment unbroken but stretching unfortunate end
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Gestures of Belonging
The fall has brought to fuller expression many notions with which I have been struggling for decades. The process of getting to a greater clarity has been difficult on my personal and professional relationships. In striving to find a path between friends and freedom, scholarship and truth, stumbling into others and knocking…
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Shaka, When the Walls Fell
Thanks to my friend Debbie S., for sending along this tweet. “Pooh?” said Piglet. “Yes, Piglet?” said Pooh. “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra,” said Piglet. “Shaka, when the walls fell,” said Pooh. — Michael G. Munz (@TheWriteMunz) November 17, 2015 It made me laugh and reminded me that I had…
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Philosophical Espresso
If you have not had a chance to watch Jason Silva do his philosophizing flow on his vlog, here are a few examples. Good stuff.
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Is Nothing
A stream of consciousness composition as I wandered around the University of North Texas. The morning of this composition I was just on the edge of detaching from a two week depression that had been filled with a few peaks of resentment and lows of self-loathing.
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