February 19, 2008 – 03:21 am
From Stanley Fish’s When Identity Politics Is Rational: “We should distinguish, I think, between two forms of identity politics. The first I have…named ‘tribal’; it is the politics based on who a candidate is rather than on what he or she believes or argues for…The second form of identity politics is what I call ‘interest’ [...]
The 20 Best “That Guys” Of All Time: Let me say that I think #1 doesn’t belong on the list, having transcended ‘that guy’ status, that #3 should be #1, and that #6 should be #2, and that #2 doesn’t belong in the top 5.
Man Clad In Underwear Pins Leopard: “A man clad only in [...]
February 21, 2006 – 12:57 pm
Over on Ain’t I A Woman, in a post entitled, “How do we hear certain voices?,” Dawn’s started an interesting discussion about the concept of minority shelving in bookstores — you know, the whole “Gay/Lesbian Literature” and “African-American Literature” thing (actually, the post is about the more abstract concept of “categorization,” but she gets [...]
February 5, 2006 – 03:49 pm
What a sad week, not only for the participants in all the different forms of the civil rights movement, but for everyone who has ever realized that the world isn’t quite right yet, and hoped to do something about it.
On January 31, Wendy Wasserstein died from complications of lymphoma at the age of 55. Wasserstein [...]
January 18, 2006 – 06:54 pm
This was is too good to put in the Asides section. It turns out that Brokeback Mountain has changed at least one mind. Read this incredible comment left by a conservative Christian who changed his mind (originally posted on IMDB.com with reg. required to read it, but you can see it at Daily Kos). Here’s [...]
December 15, 2005 – 11:51 pm
“In metaphysics, a being is in a relation with what it cannot absorb, with what it cannot, in the etymological sense, comprehend.” - Emmanuel Levinas, Totality & Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority.
What is the ontological status of that space where the software meets the hardware? I’m not speaking technically here. Technically, that space is way [...]
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December 9, 2005 – 05:47 pm
Here in this form of meditation,
you haven’t got to perform any particular action in order to develop mindfulness,
but you have only to be mindful and aware of whatever you do…
[but] you should forget yourself completely, and lose yourself in what you do.
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Walpola Rahula,
What the Buddha Taught, p.72
So many questions of the right and the proper.
The [...]
November 8, 2005 – 03:32 pm
There is no thinker behind the thought.Thought itself is the thinker.1
A visual consciousness is aware of a blue computer screen, a beer bottle next to it on one side, and a dark lamp on the other: beyond that, everything is blurry. An aural consciousness is aware of Bob Marley and the Wailers. An olfactory consciousness [...]
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