The Center Cannot Hold Us All
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; -- Yeats, The Second Coming Tell me if you can relate to this, but these past weeks I have been thinking about the role of artists and thinkers in difficult...
Tag: Earth
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The Meaning of Life? Care.
--- “Cura (Care) was crossing a river and saw some clay. Thoughtfully, she took it up and began to shape it. Jupiter came along, and she asked him to give it spirit, which he granted. Then they...
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant yet deeply unsettling account of the psychological and social effects of colonization on oppressed peoples. Born in Martinique and trained as a...
Space as the Power to Receive and Hold
The Story of Space: On Necessity, the Receptacle, and Spatial Receptivity In Plato’s Timaeus Plato’s Timaeus is a “cosmontology”: it purports to tell the story of the origins of all being(s), and it...
Our Indomitable Spirit: Finding Purpose in Pointless Work
The pivotal moment in G.W. Friedrich Hegel's Master/Slave dialectic occurs when a slave, engaged in the work of making things for the master's consumption, sees himself1 in those things and there...