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Speculations on life from an overactive mind. Asymp; Leave a comment. As the years go on, I see the false idol of long hours. Long hours, when meaningfully deployed are great, but so often quantity takes the place of quality. I worked x hours, instead of getting x done. Or in its more haunting form, I still have time and work to do today, so I can’t rest. I think of a distinction raised in Sogyal Rinpoche’s. Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Between what I call lazy laziness v. busy laziness. From Vox ab...
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Speculations on life from an overactive mind. In this together, but alone. Asymp; Leave a comment. In terms of labels, and the privileges traditionally ascribed to them, I’m high on the chart: straight, white, male, able-bodied, and upper middle class. I’m not part of the 1%, but I have never had to face any real discrimination. At most, I’ve had to curb decisions and trim back dreams due to constraints on money. For example, Cornell West. As I said, I don’t want to propose a solution, and though I...
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Baltimore | Backyard Philosophy
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Speculations on life from an overactive mind. In this together, but alone. Asymp; Leave a comment. In terms of labels, and the privileges traditionally ascribed to them, I’m high on the chart: straight, white, male, able-bodied, and upper middle class. I’m not part of the 1%, but I have never had to face any real discrimination. At most, I’ve had to curb decisions and trim back dreams due to constraints on money. For example, Cornell West. As I said, I don’t want to propose a solution, and though I...
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Speculations on life from an overactive mind. Asymp; 1 Comment. With the recent Scotus ruling, many have celebrated a sense of “progress” throughout social media. Rainbows have popped up on skyscrapers and online interfaces. Pictures pepper Twitter feeds and Tumblrs showing same-sex couples embracing, cheering, smiling, and waving flags. Some backlash is inevitable. But for the most part, most media outlets celebrate. 8221; by Wislawa Szymborska captures the feeling well:. It will never prove it now,.
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Speculations on life from an overactive mind. Here are a list of helpful sites to spur your own interest or research. I hope to expand it as time goes on. If you find more, comment. Think of it as a “further reading” page. For convenience, I put them in alphabetical order. A scholarly blog that churns up all sorts of interesting brain fodder from the irreverent to the inspiring. It takes its name from a Kant quote. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I’m a word nerd, and this is a pretty solid res...
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Speculations on life from an overactive mind. 8220;Just the Facts, Mam.”. Asymp; 2 Comments. Today, I saw an article floating around social media called “ No, It’s not Your Opinion. You’re Just Wrong. 8221; by Jef Rouner. It comes at the heels of similar articles, like this one. From Vox about professors being afraid of liberal students or this cogent blog post about Twitter. I think the brusque way the article deals with the problem, typical of most contemporary mainstream rhetoric, dodges some of the d...
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Speculations on life from an overactive mind. Some thoughts about Objects and Expression. Asymp; 4 Comments. Source: Food for the Hungry. I’ve been thinking a lot about objects lately. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post. That touched on a few of these ideas. At the moment, a friend and I are working on a panel proposal for the CCCC conference next April, centering the proposal around our object-centered and thing-related interests. A lot of this comes back to Martin Heidegger’s. Continue reading →. Identify...
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Speculations on life from an overactive mind. Some thoughts about Objects and Expression. Asymp; 4 Comments. Source: Food for the Hungry. I’ve been thinking a lot about objects lately. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post. That touched on a few of these ideas. At the moment, a friend and I are working on a panel proposal for the CCCC conference next April, centering the proposal around our object-centered and thing-related interests. A lot of this comes back to Martin Heidegger’s. Continue reading →. Bethena,...
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Reading List | Backyard Philosophy
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Speculations on life from an overactive mind. Since this is a blog primarily about thought and words, I’ve decided to post a list of books I’ve been reading It expresses some of my biases and interests and may provide a launching point for further reading. I’ve included books and major articles. The Art of Happiness. 1998) by 4th Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler. 1990) by Martin Seligman. 1991) ed. by Constance Penley and Andrew Ross [partial]. Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media. The Ecology of Ga...
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Politics | Backyard Philosophy
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Speculations on life from an overactive mind. Asymp; 2 Comments. I’ve been carrying these ideas around for a while now and am still thinking through them. With Trump, Brexit, Orlando, anti-trans bathroom laws, and other issues cycling through the media–or at least my media–lately, I keep coming back to Hannah Arendt’s. Written in 1958 as a defense of philosophy’s role in “the active life” and a critique of its preference for “the contemplative life.”. Continue reading →. Thinking through gun control.
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