Author Archives: dmf
Integrating The Non-Rational Soul, Jonathan Lear
Integrating The Non-Rational Soul, Jonathan Lear http://home.uchicago.edu/~jlear/ Has anyone out there read Lear’s Radical Hope book, it’s been a while but I remember having very mixed feelings about its underlying […]
How to Start a Revolution, Gene Sharp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3dN4ln9lzI for better or worse I’m not a pacifist, but I am always struggling with how to avoid becoming a monster while fighting the monstrous, and we are of course […]
Ethnography of and as Prototyping Culture, George Marcus
http://vimeo.com/41973217 ha, maybe the time for prototypes has arrived: “Researchers working in different fields (anthropology, communication, sociology) met to discuss on social experimentation, do-it-yourself science and beta-knowledge.But, why prototypes? Because […]
Apocalypse then: worldliness after the end of the world
Originally posted on Worldly :
Image by Matthew HollandLicensed under creative commons attribution 2.0 no-derivs generic A (re)view of Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) The opening montage of…
The Blue Bowl by Jane Kenyon
The Blue Bowl Like primitives we buried the cat with his bowl. Bare-handed we scraped sand and gravel back into the hole. […]
Kojin Sugawara
The Truth is Terrible: Nietzsche’s Idea of an Aesthetic Justification for Existence
Religion is Accidental, Paul Bloom
Picturing Our Wreck-Age
“A woman sits amidst wreckage caused by massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami, in Natori, northern Japan Sunday, March 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Asahi Shimbun, Toshiyuki Tsunenari)”
Dangers of Faith in Progress, John Gray
Matter over Mind, mind over matter. Tim Ingold
Catastrophic Convergences: Christian Parenti on Conflict/Cities
more good talks by Parenti and others @: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-8330/homepage/lecture_series.htm
Reclaiming Land, Building the Urban Commons
Your comfort is my silence by Barbara Kruger
Alex Williams @ the Dawn of the Anthropocene
“At the dawn of the new geological era known as the Anthropocene, humanity faces a curious and terrifying conjuncture. We are so powerful a species as to be registering on […]
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