amor mundi

Cruelty to nonhuman animals enables cruelty among human animals. Solidarity with nonhuman animals builds solidarity among human animals.

From Business Insider, Wall Street's Former Queen of Commodities Just Made Her Pitch for Why Bitcoin Is the Future : Bitcoin technolo...

The power of "tech" discourses to incumbent interests arises from the way they disavow history while appearing to assert substan...

For a conception of good connected to democratic virtues (eg, reliably informed nonduressed people are capable of consenting to the terms on...

Science is suffused with Not Knowing. Pseudo-science is enthused with Know-Nothings and Know-It-Alls.

I agree with Zandria Robinson that there is no substance to "whiteness" apart from white supremacy. I say so in my classes and I w...

disruption=looting innovation=repackaging risk-taking=upward-failing acceleration=precarization sharing=sharecropping

The least study of the theory and history of nonviolent resistance turns up its conspicuous connection to religious belief. Some of the ear...

"Elias Altvall" commented elsewhere in the same Moot I mentioned in the last post, "I see futurologists like priests."...

A couple of days ago I posted a throwaway observation the glibness of which was sure to cause trouble: Anarchism means "No Beginning...

Futurology is not social science, nor historical analysis, nor policy making, nor cultural criticism, nor philosophical thought. Futurolog...

Rhetoric 10: The Rhetoric of Argument  "What Is Compelling? Argument, Reconciliation, Obligation" Summer 2015, Session A, 10-1...

Rhet 103A: Approaches and Paradigms in the History of Rhetorical Theory: Patriarchal Philosophistry Course Description Rhetoric was co...

It is intolerant, not tolerant, to tolerate intolerance.

What do Republicans call a hundred clowns climbing out of a clown car? A deep bench. A hundred clowns walk into a bar. It's a Republic...

On bended knee We pray to Thee For the Majority Of SFAI Faculty Living in Uncertainty

How do you solve a problem like the neoliberal academy? How do you catch their spin and pin it down? How do you find a word that means ...

Yesterday, SFAI student Drew Grasso invited visiting faculty members to join him at his scheduled meeting with President Charles Desmarais....

President Charles Desmarais: For many years now, more than three-quarters of the teaching taking place at the San Francisco Art Institu...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot , a question is asked of a certain democratic socialist of your acquaintance who has the temerity to su...