For this post, I give you some theme music by a very talented musician named Sumner McKane. I chose this nice little tune not for the music itself (deserving though it may be), but for its title: "The Winter I Got Louder than Bombs and Standing on a Beach." I'm going to assume this title reveals that Sumner has memories (and possible nostalgia) for a time in his youth when he Continue Reading …
November Not School Groups
Here are the Not School group activities for the month of November for PEL Citizens. Intro Readings in Philosophy: Finally! We have a Nietzsche discussion in Not School. They will be reading the On the Genealogy of Morals. Join up and reduce to sour grapes all of your precious finger wagging. See Hillary Szydlowski's plug here. Philosophy of Mind: We are beginning our Continue Reading …
More October Not School Groups: Zizek, Heidegger, Metzinger, Octavia Butler
Now that the government of the United States has finally shut down, the time is ripe for some revolutionary ideology. October's Not School activities offer at least two reading groups that should aid in that concern. One is a brand new group which will be reading The Year of Dreaming Dangerously by none other than that superstar philosopher whose nose hairs tickle him oh so Continue Reading …
Not School Goings-on
As the school year for many is just beginning, it's an appropriate time for an update regarding the Not School discussion groups for the month of September. The Philosophy of Technology group will be reading selections from a book called What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly, which appears to be a somewhat optimistic reflection on the development of "technology" as analyzed Continue Reading …
Fillet of Flesh. Extra Cheesy. (Not School Discussion on Embodied Cognition Now Available)
Citizens can go now and listen to the Not School discussion of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's book Philosophy In The Flesh. The rest of you can listen to an excerpt as part of our PEL Not School Digest #3 Quasisode. The following is brought to you by the group leader and now-PEL-Not-School Guardian Evan Gould: I want you to think about Time for a "moment." How do you Continue Reading …
How Brief is Too Brief? (Not School Discussion of Searle Now Posted)
[Editor's Note: Here's a guest post from Evan Gould, who was good enough to record the second discussion of the Not School Philosophy of Mind group for your pleasure. Go sign up to be a PEL Citizen so you can listen to the discussion now.] Within roughly the first half of his 2004 book Mind: A Brief Introduction, John Searle provides a sweeping overview of the progression of Continue Reading …