Wrestling with the World in Virtual Reality: a Reblog from Networkolgies

Originally posted on Networkologies:
Doing Battle with the World via "Virtual Reality": The Tibetan Jewel Tree, on the cover to Robert Thurman’s excellent translation/explication On the Difficulty of Understanding the Insights in Classical Buddhist Texts Classical Buddhist texts having something in common with Deleuze, or Networkological thought? I must admit, I’ve spent a lot of…

Jeppe Dyrendom Graugaard’s Conversation with Andrew Taggart

I’ve come across an opportunity to extend what goes on here by pointing you at another conversation. For me there is great Joy in being able to do this! It is a sign of the growth of community I’ve been experiencing lately after so many decades in the wilderness. Let me leave it at that

A Conversation around Questions of Sincerity, Stone Soup

Andrew Taggart has become the first contributing author on Stone Soup. In his first post he looks at the story and responds to the skeptic’s view. In the end he asks, “How can someone … avoid the fate of the con man?” I’d like to take a stab at that. I’d like to say the

Shaping Awareness, part II

This post has been pressing for the last few days. Of course so was the track of Hurricane Irene. Still not sure if I’m ready to proceed, but I would like to capture some of the conditions swirling around this situation. A giant storm like Irene is physically a dynamic interaction of air and water