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Sex and Spirit from Kody http://firstdaypress.org/sexandspirit/ Crazy that a stripper can make so much money. And how money is about feeling good about oneself. http://doctorouttahere.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/stripper-with-a-phd-part-two/ Adjunct workers and the fate of the elderly woman at Duquesne who started a firestorm … Continue reading
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Morning reads
A quick browse of the internets yields… Do the uppercrust of Victorian England, as they appear on Downton Abbey, really live like that? This blog post discusses succinctly the 19th century political and economic conditions that make up that world. … Continue reading
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You Are Not Your Writing, or “how drafts can save your life”
Plato regarded writing as a particular kind word-work. In that era, (the 5th c BCE Athens), speaking was, hands down, the more truthful way of presenting oneself and any idea. Writing was treated suspiciously: it is a derivative of the … Continue reading
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Tagged drafts, Forms, identity, Plato, representation, speaking, writing
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Quaker Ministry Workshop Weekend: Creepy or Cool?
When attending a Quaker workshop, be prepared to be watched. Oh yes, listened too, but also watched. “When you sit in worship, I noticed your energy change when you sit up straight from when you fold over. You have so … Continue reading
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Who Needs Answers When You Have Cookies?
“The Modern, Secular, Hardly Divine Comedy”: A Play in One Act Inspired by comments by Rocky. Read her at rockylewis.com Act 1, Scene 1 (cell phone rings) Answerer: Hello? Questioner: Where do the questions come from? A: God, 42, You. … Continue reading
Where Do These Questions Come From?
Waking up with a question of why is an exciting day. Questions themselves are born of an energetic part of the body, quickening the heart. Yet, they seem to come from nowhere. Alert, with a question, additional questions … Continue reading
Bodies in a Postmodern Mood
But I have another theory to propose: what if the beauty ideal is so constructed–both through plastic surgery and Photoshop–that no one, not even the celebrity hotties, can achieve it or maintain it? Continue reading
Philosopher Labor
Reading today on Marx’s theories of political economy proposed in Capital was enough to send me again to my thoughts of philosopher labor. What is the exchange labor of a philosopher? Are philosophers exploited, alienated from their labor? Who owns … Continue reading
Readings on Writing
My encounters with practical writing books has been mostly a disappointing affair, but perhaps this is because I have needed help on multiple fronts. No single style book was going to be able to lift me from the stultifying confusion … Continue reading
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We may not make the world we live in, but we can respond to it. And in responding, the world in turn responds to us.
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