Elaborating upon education sector, she recalled views of late nationalist and philosopher Sri Aurobindo. "The great son of India, saw national education as constituting more than the acquisition of a degree or time spent in school and college.
Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy: Interchange in the Wake of God -Friends of the blog Simon Podmore, Duane Williams and David Lewin have a new book out featuring chapters from Agata Bielik-Robson, Steve Shakespeare, Alex ...
CFP: IIGRS Ghent - The 9th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS) will be held at Ghent University (22-23.09.2017). The abstract submission date is approa...
Deleuze/Guattari: ‘Stop the World!’ - One of the things of profound interest in Castaneda’s books, under the influence of drugs, or other things, and of a change of atmosphere, is precisely tha...
ABSOLUTE RUBBISH AND RELATIVELY SILLY RUBBISH Relatively - *1* “Adam Smith - The Inventor of Market Economy I THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION” HERE *COMMENT* Absolute rubbish! [Beware: the source web site also displays mul...
Practice and performance in ritual language - [image: Practice and performance in ritual language] Does it make a difference to think of ritual language such as prayer in terms of a relation between pra...
Freedom and Sacrifice, Determinism and Suicide - What follows is a little conversation I had with a fellow commenter on Instapundit regarding an article on whether machines can attain consciousness. The a...
Incompleteness in knowledge and existence - Cross-posted at the Indian Philosophy Blog. A friend read the previous post on ibn Sīnā and Śāntideva and asked (on … Continue reading →
- Fast Company on why you lack self awareness. For German philosopher Martin Heidegger, who we are has much to do with how we interact with the world and ot...
an article against the hoax - HERE is a piece by Hank Reichman, which primarily blames the hoaxers for lowering themselves with a hoax in Cogent Social Sciences, which he depicts as a l...
Reflections on the Meaning of Progressivism - In this week’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the show’s host debated with Cornell West, the public intellectual and social activist. Maher criti...
Erowid’s Psychedelic Encyclopedia at CIIS - This conversation with Earth and Fire Erowid (of erowid.org) at CIIS back in January was supposed to be recorded for a podcast, but alas, due to technical ...
Walter Benjamin’s Unfinished Magnum Opus, Revisited Through Contemporary Art at the Jewish Museum in NY - I definitely will visit this when I pass through New York: Walter Benjamin’s Unfinished Magnum Opus, Revisited Through Contemporary Art – The New Yorker
Reading and Repetition - A central claim of Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition is that we only ever create something new through repetition. Here, then, we might encounter a fund...
Jeff VanderMeer’s BORNE - Borne is Jeff VanderMeer’s first new novel since his Southern Reach trilogy. I was stunned by reading it, and I am not sure that I can really do it justice...
This made me smile - Full story here.
Education for the Species--Part V - [*We conclude by suggesting that incorporation of indigenous knowledge-systems in the mainstream is one urgent measure to save the species and the planet*]...
15 Rules for Living a Self-Reliant, Honest & Compassionate Life (The Hobo Ethical Code of 1899) - [image from Wikipedia] Who knew that "hobos" had such a powerful and perceptive ethic sense? Wikipedia points to 1890 as the first known use of the word: ...
Month-long Zalamea Seminar starts this Week in NYC at Pratt Manhattan - Please join us at Pratt Graduate Media Studies at Pratt Manhattan, starting this week, for a month-long seminar by world renowned philosopher of mathematic...
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