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Joel Cross “Shake it Off”
Joel Cross is a musician from here in Denton who got his degree in music from the University of North Texas. One of the best guitarists in the area. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing him play many times. Wonderful guy on top of being a great musician.. 🙂
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The Big (Soul) University
The entire existential project behind Karl Jaspers’ Idea of the University involves integrating a professor’s research with students’ search for their own selves. The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is…
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Aphorism 05Oct2015
Either I risk myself venturing into the world and beyond—or I never will have my ownmost Self as freedom
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A Fixed Idea by Amy Lowell
What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant; and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its presence. Dull remembrance taught Remembers on unceasingly; unsought The old delight is with us but to find That all recurring joy is pain refined, Become a habit,…
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Corporations Should Practice Authentic Sympathy
Maybe Tim Cook is channeling the spirit of Adam Smith, whose moral philosophy–the backbone of his political economy–posits that the basis of all human interaction is sympathy which manifests as a personal quest for happiness with a conscience balanced against genuine beneficence toward others and a strong sense of justice.…
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Community Groups Work to Provide Emergency Medical Alternatives, Separate From Police
[Jens] Rushing says that during his time as an EMT for [a] small Texas city, police officers were dispatched with him on almost every call, sometimes becoming unnecessarily confrontational and problematic – especially, he said, on calls in which patients were struggling with mental illnesses… Though Rushing says there are occasions…
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McKinney Classic Film Festival
The McKinney Classic Film Festival begins Friday, September 11 at the McKinney Performing Arts Center at 111 N. Tennessee Street and runs through Sunday, September 13. A total of five classic films that span the 1930s to the 1960s, will be screened throughout the festival. Source: GO BACK IN TIME THIS WEEKEND: TO THE…
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Neoliberalist Humanities
It is not the humanities per se that are under attack. It is learning: learning for its own sake, curiosity for its own sake, ideas for their own sake. It is the liberal arts, but understood in their true meaning, as all of those fields in which knowledge is pursued…
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Philosophy Majors Out-Earn Other Humanities Grads
It’s been said in many places before: A degree in the humanities isn’t exactly marketable to employers (less kind critics have called those degrees “useless”). But there’s one humanities major whose graduates are doing quite well in the job market—and it’s philosophy majors. Source: Philosophy Majors Out-Earn Other Humanities Grads…
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The end of Aqua Teen Hunger Force marks the end of an era for TV animation · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
The Aqua Teens had no mission, no reason for being. They were mascots without a restaurant, signifiers without any signified. At their core they were talking trash, parodies of commercial waste who actually became merchandisable characters in their own right. They represented a kind of dystopian future that had, by…
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Ignoring the Borg in the Room
Frodeman and Briggle continue asking how philosophers can serve society in this age of technoscience. #SocratesTenured http://philosophyimpact.org/2015/08/31/borg-like-existence/
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Lost art of speaking to a mass audience
According to [John Armstrong, University of Melbourne] the way [the professionalization of the humanities] all got started was an accident of history that divorced the humanities from a mass audience. “They were set up without any concern for marketing because when they were set up they reflected the dominant elite…
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Concerning the Disciplinization of Language
It’s one of those aspects of the Society of Discipline that enclosures of experts form to put knowledge into hierarchical strata and assess who gets power and who does not based on the rules of the enclosure. Yes, I’m talking to you MLA and OED. It is indeed important to…
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‘Straight Outta Compton’: Rare Biopic
A rare film because it does not continue the tradition of celebrating a white man. Kudos to the industry power of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. It remains to be seen how much the film will touch on the existential struggles of the young black man in America. It could very…
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How Uber and the Gig Economy Are Making Voters as Disposable as Temp Workers
Temp politics is an outgrowth of the sweeping transformation of economic, social and political life over the past 35 years to fit the demands of global capital for “flexible,” nonunion labor markets that fuel growth in monopoly profits, irrespective of the social and environmental costs. In this new economic order,…
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We Gon’ Be Alright: Black Love, Black Resistance and Black Liberation
Coming together across different ideologies, generations, geographies and experiences, participants in the Movement for Black Lives have the potential, the brilliance and the power to get free and to stay free. More than 1,500 Black people came together in Cleveland, Ohio, last week for the Movement for Black Lives convening.…
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@nihilist_arbys: the perfect lunch for #anarchocynicism
Laugh at the absurdity of #consumption… let your laughter be the soundtrack of living from #Oblivion2Oblivion. Welcome to Arbys. Can I help you? JK. No one can. Which dead animal would you like to waste a few minutes of your useless life eating today? — Nihilist Arby's (@nihilist_arbys) June 30, 2015
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