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Friday, September 20, 2024
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What It Does to Us
Eagerly anticipating "Playground"…
Should we be feeling awe, delight, terror about the environment, AI, etc.?
"Do I have to choose one of them? I mean, all of them. Don't you feel all of them?"
Should we be feeling awe, delight, terror about the environment, AI, etc.?
"Do I have to choose one of them? I mean, all of them. Don't you feel all of them?"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/16/richard-powers-profile
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Macho “Stoics” on the internet
I was asked in class yesterday about how some internet popularizers of Stoicism seem to equate that philosophy with "masculine values"… This seems relevant:
"Working through a book with some students yesterday and had a realization.💡
Many of us would agree that our culture is broadly nihilistic — lot of despair, feelings of pointlessness, atomization, and isolation. "Does anything matter?!"
A lot of the toxic stuff online targeting young men is flourishing IN THIS CONTEXT. Guys are offered "systems," and "discipline," and "tradition" as a balm for this aimlessness and anxiety about meaning."
👇 https://www.threads.net/@greatbooksprof/post/C_vF9PnusBk/?xmt=AQGziKuazBiKpApNr6Oa7gCvvqV9D39ZVA3FnnNdKNkC_Q
"Working through a book with some students yesterday and had a realization.💡
Many of us would agree that our culture is broadly nihilistic — lot of despair, feelings of pointlessness, atomization, and isolation. "Does anything matter?!"
A lot of the toxic stuff online targeting young men is flourishing IN THIS CONTEXT. Guys are offered "systems," and "discipline," and "tradition" as a balm for this aimlessness and anxiety about meaning."
👇 https://www.threads.net/@greatbooksprof/post/C_vF9PnusBk/?xmt=AQGziKuazBiKpApNr6Oa7gCvvqV9D39ZVA3FnnNdKNkC_Q
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Cousin Mary‘s instructions
"Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it."
Mary Oliver, born on this day in 1935
https://www.threads.net/@reboomer/post/C_u3B2wOcYK/?xmt=AQGzPk2MS5HzI2P78zSTO4gVzAH3AmvRjRN2bl-_xjQAWA
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it."
Mary Oliver, born on this day in 1935
https://www.threads.net/@reboomer/post/C_u3B2wOcYK/?xmt=AQGzPk2MS5HzI2P78zSTO4gVzAH3AmvRjRN2bl-_xjQAWA
Monday, September 9, 2024
How the Philosopher Charles Taylor Would Heal the Ills of Modernity
"Poetry and music escape the constraints of intellect, Taylor argues, persuading us by inspiration rather than argument."
Does his argument inspire?
Does reason alone reveal the constraints of intellect?
Or does experience, a broader category of wisdom?
Asking for the friend who shared the essay and said: "It's the music that's alleged to do the work. But Taylor's work comprises arguments, not music or poetry. Does reason provide evidence of its own limitations? I find that sort of view attractive."
In other words: define "reason"…
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/cosmic-connections-charles-taylor-book-review
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Get up and move
The Brahma Muhurta, "creator's time"-
https://www.threads.net/@arthurcbrooks/post/C_lA1mSh166/?xmt=AQGzBrjFTm0gO1PI4UQCCxp9eAdnCwVWMRA56a_sieKdPQ
https://www.threads.net/@arthurcbrooks/post/C_lA1mSh166/?xmt=AQGzBrjFTm0gO1PI4UQCCxp9eAdnCwVWMRA56a_sieKdPQ
Friday, September 6, 2024
“Divisive concepts” form (for the convenience of my students)
Why fascists hate universities | Jason Stanley | The Guardian
"…Even more so than Florida, Tennessee is a one-party state, with a Republican governor and a Republican supermajority in the legislature. The Tennessee house and senate passed a resolutionto honor the Danube Institute; on the floor of the Tennessee house, the state representative Justin Jones questioned why the state was honoring the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán's thinktank. Tennessee has a state ban on the teaching of "divisive concepts", one that includes public universities. To report a professor for teaching such a concept (such as intersectionality), Tennessee provides an online form..."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/05/why-fascists-hate-universities-us-bangladesh-india
"…Even more so than Florida, Tennessee is a one-party state, with a Republican governor and a Republican supermajority in the legislature. The Tennessee house and senate passed a resolutionto honor the Danube Institute; on the floor of the Tennessee house, the state representative Justin Jones questioned why the state was honoring the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán's thinktank. Tennessee has a state ban on the teaching of "divisive concepts", one that includes public universities. To report a professor for teaching such a concept (such as intersectionality), Tennessee provides an online form..."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/05/why-fascists-hate-universities-us-bangladesh-india
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