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A Congressman Asks for Adjuncts’ Stories, and Responses Pour In | Vitae
“This eForum is an opportunity for adjuncts and other contingent faculty to inform the Congress about what’s happening on the ground with higher education,” said Miller, a Democrat, in a news release. “I think there is a huge lack of understanding of what it means to be in the adjunct…
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Kanye West: Easy Target for the Daily Currant
I like the Daily Currant because unlike the Onion, the stuff is written just close enough to reality to make you actually buy it for a bit. I figured Kanye actually said this stuff–he has said crap not that far away from it–until I realized the source. Still, that folks…
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Sustainable Knowledge by Robert Frodeman
My good friend and colleague, Robert Frodeman, has a new book coming out from Palgrave Pivot. Here is a little taste from the Introduction to Sustainable Knowledge A Parable… In Walden, Thoreau tells the story of an Indian who goes door to door in Concord selling the baskets he’s woven.…
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Colleges are teaching economics backwards
…here’s one temporary fix for introductory economics: teach it backwards. Reversing the order in which introductory economic classes are taught today might be the easiest way to respond to the crisis in undergraduate education. Plus, the history of how it gets taught now is more interesting and more political than…
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Beware of the Philosopher: the Cynics | History of Philosophy
This is a nice quick lecture on the Ancient Cynics. Since the speaker references “The Bare Necessities” from The Jungle Book, I also include that song below. You might watch it before you listen to the lecture. In this episode we unleash the most outrageous ancient philosophers, Diogenes and the Cynics,…
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Red Headed Gypsy Lover
Yea!!! A new video by one of my favorite local artists, Collin Hauser! Listen to this song, visit his site. Get to know him.
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Silencing the Mind Will Be Heeded by the Cosmos
I don’t really think old Laozi actually ever said this. But, it is a great quote. Related articles John Cage: Silence yet not silencing (pilimi200.wordpress.com) Silence the music (sounddesign2013.wordpress.com) Daodejing 1 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 35 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 38 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 71 (keithwaynebrown.com)
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The Logic of Stupid Poor People | tressiemc
Great article on an issue that is close to my heart as a person who was born poor and has done many ridiculous things as well as savvy things to get out of perception of poverty. I know that being a white man, I have had many privileges not afforded…
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Willingness and Will
A great philosopher–like Plato or Kant, Laozi or Nietzsche–does not give doctrines for memorization, provide answers to life’s problems, nor demonstrate proofs that will forever explain being human. That such has often been taken away from the greatest minds in human history testifies to the ongoing desire to end care…
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The Elusive Search for Certainty
Amen, amen! As I say to my young friends, philosophy is the willingness to embrace uncertainty combined with the will to ask questions.
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The World’s First Trillionaire
Originally posted on The Dish: Elliot Hannon wonders who it will be: The two industries are best positioned to take a billionaire to the next level are technology and retail, for the same reason: Both use a global labor pool to make affordable products, inexpensive enough that workers can soon become the…
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Thanksgiving Message 2013
Today, we give thanks. Let our thinking then not turn to things. How can we turn this gift–our being able to think–toward a mere list of the things that we have or that we still want to obtain? Rather, turn your hearts toward how you should love all beings. Give…
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Baudelaire Contra Photography… and Memes?
With a nod in the direction of Modern Disappointment for the inspiration from a comment on the Idea Channel post I put up a few days ago. …During this lamentable period, a new industry arose which contributed not a little to confirm stupidity in its faith and to ruin whatever…
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Chomsky: Business Elites Are Waging a Brutal Class War in America | Alternet
Well, there’s always a class war going on. The United States, to an unusual extent, is a business-run society, more so than others. The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition. Occasionally this is recognized. We don’t use the…
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Art and the Alter-Modern Philosophical Network
If the Society of Control is in part about the delivery of knowledge and information through constantly modulating networks, then maybe the PBS Idea Channel gives us an inkling of how Millennials will philosophize via the interweb. Here are a few examples centered on art and aesthetics: Related articles More…
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