Tag Archives: Thinking in Words

The Importance of Survival, Questioning the Obvious and The Rejection of Complicity in the Madness: We Need to Think About These Things.

Posted on July 4, 2015 by randomyriad

Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of … Continue reading →

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Pieces of a Puzzle

Posted on June 22, 2015 by randomyriad

The crisis before us is the culmination of a 500-year global rampage of conquering, plundering, exploiting, and polluting the earth— as well as killing by Europeans and Euro-Americans of the indigenous communities that stood in their way. The technical and … Continue reading →

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Resisting the Habits of the Algorithmic Mind

Posted on June 13, 2015 by randomyriad

Michael Sacasas thoughtfully suggests that our reliance on machines to make decisions for us may lead us to outsource our moral judgement, With some Heart of Darkness and Hannah Arendt and a few good examples from recent media sources to … Continue reading →

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Singing From A Place I Recognize

Posted on June 7, 2015 by randomyriad
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Form, Content, and Transformation

Posted on June 2, 2015 by randomyriad

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
The difficulty is that it is the form or structure, not the content, that must be transformed to produce genuine psychodynamic or political transformation.  One might believe that they’ve produced a radical transformation by switching…

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