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happy hallowe’en

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , , , , on October 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »

As occasionally happens, I was invited to speak last week at a local Unitarian Universalist service (in Stowe, Vermont). Since today/night is Hallowe’en/Samhain and that’s part of what I spoke about, I thought I would share a brief summary of the talk, which was called “Hallowed Ground, Sacred Space, and the Space Between the Worlds.”

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vote

Posted in Politics, tagged on October 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Jodi Dean, whose work I respect a lot, won’t vote in the upcoming U.S. elections. The election, she argues, “won’t do anything but secure a false sense of connectedness from those who do vote to the oligarchy that continues to exploit us.” Mark Lance is agreeing with her that voting is the opiate of the […]

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world looks back

Posted in Visual culture on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

French street artist JR (who I blogged about here) has been awarded the TED Prize. Worldchanging shares a number of his images of “the world looking back” here. The New York Times has more on the story. JR’s web site has more photos.

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the “house of cards” house of cards

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

For all my skepticism toward most “climate skepticism,” I find the case of Judith Curry very interesting. This recent post at her blog Climate Etc. repeatedly resorts to metaphors like “‘Alice down the rabbit hole’ moments” and “bucket[s] of cold water being poured over my head” to describe her experiences venturing outside the warm world […]

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on Buddhism, objects, Zizek, Morton, etc.

Posted in Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , on October 25, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I’ve been meaning to catch up on the discussions over Buddhism and objects/relations, Slavoj Zizek’s critique of “Western Buddhism,” and related topics, which have been continuing on Tim Morton’s Ecology Without Nature, Jeffrey Bell’s Aberrant Monism, Skholiast’s Speculum Criticum Traditionis, and elsewhere. I haven’t quite caught up, but here are a few quick notes on […]

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letter to a Tea Party sympathizer

Posted in Politics, tagged , on October 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »

As another political season (leading to the midterm elections) winds down here in the US, people get wound up. Here’s part of something I wrote to a friend who happens to be a Tea Party sympathizer – which surprised me when I found this out, but life is full of surprises, and meeting them mindfully […]

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“if you like to eat, go to Galicia…”

Posted in Academe on October 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »

That’s what one of our extremely gracious hosts at the Instituto de Estudios Gallegos, kept repeating during the wining and dining that made up an important part of the IV International Colloquium Compostela. I can now attest that it’s absolutely true. The meals were extended food fests where serving after delicious serving, dish after delectable […]

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stones still standing

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged on October 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Amazing that after 7000 years this 100+ megalith cromlech is standing (once again), and that it was only “discovered” in 1964. (Discovered presumably by those who had a reasonably good idea of what they were discovering…) It is the Almendres Cromlech outside Evora, Portugal.

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Green pilgrimage & global civil religion

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 5, 2010 | 7 Comments »

I’m getting ready to head to Spain, where I’ve been invited to give a talk on “green pilgrimage” at the Fourth Colloquium Compostela. Here’s a brief overview of what I’ll be speaking about.   Green Pilgrimage: Prospects for Ecology and Peace-Building

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philosophy, salvation, & the world

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , on October 1, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Fabio Gironi has a very perceptive response to the recent posts at Larval Subjects, Ecology Without Nature, and here, over Buddhism, objects, and relations. I like his admission that “I have never been – nor [do] I plan to be—a practicing Buddhist or a ‘believer’ of any sort, but the encounter with Nāgārjuna’s philosophy was […]

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where was Bart when I needed him?

Posted in Academe on October 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XViCOAu6UC0?fs=1&hl=en_US

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