Category: race
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Rudolf Steiner and Racism
As a teacher, I do my best to actively encourage deep and sustained dialogue about the racism, implicit or explicit, that shows up in the statements or actions of any figure studied with my students. Many modern European and American thinkers, including all the German idealists, Darwin, Nietzsche, Emerson, Whitehead, Jung, Teilhard, Heidegger, etc., have made…
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The Urgency of Social Threefolding in a World Still at War with Itself (draft article)
The following is a rough draft of an article I had originally prepared for a special issue of the journal Eidos (CfP here). Unfortunately, the editors requested that I soften my statements about the US & NATO. While Putin is responsible for the criminal invasion of Ukraine, I am unwilling to retract my statements pointing…
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Election Coverage: Live-streaming on Growing Down
www.twitch.tv/videos/791279870 Unsurprisingly we steamed for 4 hours and still know nothing about the election results.
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Apology for a Democratic Ontology (response to Keith Woods)
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American Immanental Philosophies and the Future of Theopolitics: Dialoging with Michael Hogue
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“The Great American Trip,” dialogue on “Growing Down”
I’m winding down a cross-country road trip and had the pleasure of talking about it in the context of America’s larger political predicament with Jeremy and Ryan on their “Growing Down” podcast.
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Metamodernism, the Integral Left, and Postmodern Traditionalism (dialoguing with Brent Cooper)
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Growing Down Podcast on “the Integral Left”
Thanks to Jeremy, Matt, and Ryan for hosting this dialogue!
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Dialoguing with Brent Cooper about ecosocialist politics and integral spirituality
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“He maketh his sun to rise,” featuring Donald Trump, Cornel West, and Ram Dass
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The Anthropocene: End Times/New Age
Sean Kelly and I delivered this a few weeks ago at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA at our philosophy program’s annual retreat.
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Economics as though life on Earth depended on it
Some related essays on integral economics, a Christian ecological worldview, and slavery and capitalism.
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The Physics of Politics, or From Entropy to Possibility
In my video below, I am responding to this vlog by Matthew Pirkowski. See also my Twitter exchange with Matthew on these topics.
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Catherine Keller: The Cosmopolitical Entanglements of Process-Relational Theology
In what follows, I offer some reflections on the feminist process theologian Catherine Keller’s book Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement (2015). Keller poetically folds her refreshingly open theological orientation into an array of important planetary topics,—including the ethical implications of quantum entanglement (chapter 4), the poststructuralist dissolution of substance (chapter 5)…
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My political autobiography
It has become a truism: every election is the most important of our lives. Is this any more true of the 2020 presidential election? Of course it is! As we approach what is already shaping up to be another prolonged and contentious primary season, I want to offer an autobiographical preamble to my ongoing commentary…
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Politics and Pluralism in the Anthropocene
Notes from a talk I gave at CIIS this past March titled “Politics and Pluralism in the Anthropocene” Here’s the video of the whole panel: https://youtu.be/sgoAZV4VVsc Foucault on Hegel: “[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the…
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Peterson and the Left: A Podcast with Rebel Wisdom
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Spirituality and Justice: Reconciling Transcendence and Immanence
I was part of a panel at a Diversity Symposium at CIIS today.
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Process and Difference in the Pluriverse: Plato, William James, & W.E.B. Du Bois
I’m sharing the lecture from the first module of my course this semester at CIIS.edu, PARP 6135: Process and Difference in the Pluriverse. The lecture discusses Plato’s Republic, William James’ pluralism, and W.E.B. Du Bois’ critical inheritance of James’ philosophy. Here’s a PDF transcript of the lecture
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