liberation
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Haibun 06Jul25: Reading, Authority, and Reason
When I was young, I thought books were keys to the vault of answers. If I read enough, deeply enough, I’d know what to think. I mistook tradition for commandment. Decades later, I sit among these same volumes—dog-eared, underlined, marked… Continue reading
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Anti-Reason in Our Times: The Renaissance of White Supremacy
Karl Jaspers warns in “Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time” (1952) of the unphilosophical spirit that favors comforting myths over uncomfortable truths. Contemporary white supremacist movements exemplify this “anti-reason,” exhibiting ideological rigidity and rejecting dialogue. Through the Browning’s work, “The… Continue reading
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Aphorism 25Mar2023
If I am willing to be open to the uncertainty of being in the lifeworld alongside all these others also struggling toward liberation, I must never forget: Evolution is neither preservation of the status quo nor conservation of the familiar;… Continue reading
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AnarchoCynic as Queer or recognizing the gravity well of domination
We are forsaken to our existential condition. We can simply make-do with what is already underway, or we can accept responsibility for having the power to explore in a fashion otherwise than tradition teaches. Anarchocynicism only works so long as… Continue reading
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Coordination, Subordination, and Exordination
Yesterday in our class, the discussion led me to talk for a little bit about a distinction originally made by Marcuse, I believe, regarding soft versus hard totalitarianism. I extended this description out to all manner of group structures that lead… Continue reading
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Brick Lotus
Slippers slipping off my feet Adjusting my new inserts Adjusting my old soul Stopping at the brick lotus Sitting in the Sun awhile Material conditions of Mindfulness Lower back pain Blurry eyes Big fat stomach Dry skin on my forehead… Continue reading
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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,… Continue reading
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Ursula K. Le Guin: We can Envision Better than Capitalism
“We live in capitalism,” said Le Guin, “Its power seems inescapable… So did the divine right of kings.” Continue reading
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Down with Activism; Up with Revolution
…we imagine that we are revolutionaries when we are nothing more than temporary rebels. Activism is far from revolution, and the left at the centres of capitalism is dominated by activists and activist groups––NOT revolutionaries and revolutionary movements. The most popular and predictable… Continue reading
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Decision
If I am no longer the man I was, it is because I decide to become the man I will be. Continue reading
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Night Vigil 20140702
We are all hunting. Some for yesterday (redemption), some for tomorrow (expectation). But those who hunt for today (detachment) capture neither debt nor anxiety. Let-go! Continue reading
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The Prize
Possible Existenz is always a surprise because there is no reprising it as objective experience. Unrepeatable and unutterable, Existenz is as nothing to the enterprises of the everyday which comprise the inauthentic tales of being “me”. Such narratives are misprisions… Continue reading
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Daodejing 38 Redux
With this poem, we begin the Book of DE (the second part of the Daodejing, the poems on virtue or excellence). #38* Magnificent excellence (DE): Acting without thinking of being excellent. Acting thus is authentic excellence. Debased excellence: Keeping up… Continue reading
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