Here’s an issue for the mind awash in the digital image and it corresponding “emotional” content: As the mind receives this content it is acted upon by it and it responds in kind. There is…
Browsing Category Errancy
Half-baked thinking
This is a Test
1) “A road map that helps us easily find our way from one side of the continent to the other owes its great utility to its exceptional existential poverty.”* Please describe what you think is…
The Unnatural Mind
The human world is wrong. I don’t know how to share that idea with those who disagree. How can we not all agree on our errors? We make stuff that has no basis for natural…
Sounding Texts: My American Literature
A further edit upon “My Favorite Book.” It grows. A friend asked me recently to name a favorite book. This is nearly impossible to me as I rarely find whole books satisfying throughout and prefer…
Walking and Talking: Wilco’s One Sunday Morning
Yesterday, Wednesday morning, I walked the dogs, as usual, uphill on 1st street (east) around 8 a.m. It seemed a perfect morning. A chill air balanced by a warming sun; a blue sky with long…
The Mind Arrested and Raised Above Desire
Stephen Dedalus on “esthetic stasis” as the “proper, esthetic emotion.” —Aristotle has not defined pity and terror. I have. I say— Lynch halted and said bluntly: —Stop! I won’t listen! I am sick. I…
You Can Make or You Can Sing
I said yesterday something that I thought was quite pithy if not something assured or useful: the brain is a kind of quantum reckoning, always and forever eluding investigation; the body seems rather to adhere…
Autism: The Next “Specialty” Credential?
Or, The Uses of Autism For your juxtaposing critical consideration–a business opportunity or a neurological disorder…or something yet known. From Shaky Ground by Adam Phillips in the London Review of Books (below in normal text)…
Bury These Nostaligias
Is there a better way to demonstrate the absolute vacuity of America and its “gifts” to the world than the Academy Awards? This morning I read a critique of the telecast on Salon by their…
If Not Equality, then Broad’s Advantage
Eli Broad, Billionaire Gift Giver (Strings Attached) of the Broad Foundation, made a clear statement of what schools are for in 2008: Those of us who come from the world of business understand what is…