Tapestry
This was a chance to weave an intricate and personal tapestry - built on the ideas of others and therefore an example of referencing and respect - but also a work that brought something new to the table
Higher
i see the irrationality and the sheer passion for the psychopathic play in it all | i see the end in itself | i see the end justify all means | and in that end I see me
Do Not Leave
if i wanted to compose poetry on bones | mine or anyone else's | I would have to explain the unexplainable
risk the shot
This course is a chance to think. To discover and generate links. Between the philosophy of one discipline and the philosophy of another. You get to build a bridge. Which at some point you will have to walk. This is
not for us
i tell them they are free to fail but none believe me - that our degrees don’t matter - and our phds don’t matter - just heart and awareness - of the vast cosmic sea - and the realisation that
hope
what of this future | our responsibility | and the lack of it | see hope slip through our fingers like straws in the wind never again to be clutched
build
I think the higher education should slow down. Be a courageous example to the world. Allow us time - and make it safe - to just lean in. Become the stationary philosophical dream
perform | angst
... so the mechanism and the machine | with its hulking and ghostly grey pillars | of efficiency and extraction and exploitation | can continue its relentless grind forward
shoot
Show me what - and how - you think without using language. When you are not constrained by its abstraction and reduction. Let me see what you see. That concrete reality for which there are no words.
blah
My daughter scribbles on my lecture notes. Which lie scattered around the house. This was her latest. She has a point. And any academic lamenting poor attendance and engagement in their lectures should consider it one of the biggest reasons