Author Archives: dmf
context matters w/ @evantthompson
“Steps to an Embodied Cognitive Science of Mindfulness” when did “mindfulness” become the new cure-all for life’s woes? i have spent considerable time in the presence of several senior buddhist […]
blackwater woods by mary oliver
Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and […]
Report from a Besieged World: Refugee Crisis Devolving into Chaos
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
What I Saw To the memory of Kazimierz Moczarski I saw prophets tearing at their pasted-on beards I saw…
xenofeminism on ectpodcast
https://soundcloud.com/ectpodcast/ect-2-xenofeminism some related readings & videos @ -ect 2 Xenofeminism
Only A God Can Save Us
“HEIDEGGER: Those questions bring us back to the beginning of our conversation. If I may answer quickly and perhaps somewhat vehemently, but from long reflection: Philosophy will not be able […]
Working Well with Wickedness – John Law on Wicked Problems
“Abstract In 1973 Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber wrote a seminal paper, ‘Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning’ in whichthey distinguished between benign and wicked problems. Of the former […]
kid gets police baton to face for jaywalking
Jeezus, that’s it I’m taking a moral holiday from the news again. reflections from across the pond: http://www.theguardian.com/society/audio/2015/sep/18/podcast-guardian-long-read-farewell-to-america
Welcome to the Crash Space we call Eaarth
“Scott Bakker says: September 17, 2015 at 2:59 pm This has been a fantastic discussion: I especially would like to thank Steve (Fuller) for helping me think through the form […]
Rocks, Riots, and Teargas (High Holidays in Jerusalem)
watching what is becoming of states like Israel and South Africa is heartbreaking, so much promise so little capacity to deliver on that promise… jewish philosophy place Something new, it […]
Failing State Watch Yemen
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p032nmyw.mp3 “More than 2000 civilians have been killed since a coalition led by Saudi Arabia began bombing Yemen. The UN is warning of war crimes on both sides and a […]
california is still burning
social anarchism or lifestyle anarchism: an unbridgeable chasm
Click to access Social%20Anarchism%20or%20Lifestyle%20Anarchism.pdf https://libcom.org/library/social-anarchism–lifestyle-anarchism-murray-bookchin
Another World is Inevitable, the Archdruid Reports
“The mere fact that a failed consensus is cracking at the seams, in other words, does not guarantee that what replaces it will be an improvement. All it means is […]
virtuosity
Slavoj Žižek on the refugee crisis
Yanis Varoufakis vs Austerity in London
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJXqqL9t9kg about a half hour in they start and another half hour until Yanis talks.
Outside Color: Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy
Originally posted on Outside Colour:
Published by MIT Press. Amazon page. Google books preview. Review of Outside Color in The New Republic. You can read more about my…
Judith Butler in Brazil on Precarity
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7g22OlSFK4 Judith queering mobilization and mobilizing queerness.
Paranoia / Pattern Recognition
“She remembers her father’s views on paranoia. Win, the Cold War security expert, ever watchful, had treated paranoia as though it were something to be domesticated and trained. Like someone […]
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