Month: januari 2013

Smokkelwaar
Geen inspiratie, dus een gedicht over het schrijven. schakel in woorden het juk en het jorem dit is smokkelwaar in een wereld waar woorden nooit meer dan symbolen zijn treefjes voor de jouissance in een wereld die verrekt een wereld vol "content" dit is smokkelwaar en het blijft onder ons, gelijkenden onder ons wezens die ...
Carried Away By No Photo
Here's the scandal: My baby is three weeks old and the photo of my baby is still not all over the Internet, despite the fact that the most common reaction is -"Congratulations! Photos?" Of course as a healthy-grumpy-cynical philosopher I recognize how mindless this reflex is, and how we as members of a predominantly visual ...
Infinite gross, revisited
We hold this truth to be self-evident, that we cannot grow the material economy indefinitely on a finite planet.* Such growth however, is exactly what is needed to keep the economic system from falling apart, as many studies have shown.**

What about the "service economy"? Could it be the solution to grow an economy indefinitely? Of ...
Grace
I remember watching the Tour de France on television on Sunday mornings as a teenager. I remember wonderful names such as Indurain, Ullrich or Janukovitsch. I remember motorcycles patiently following a courageous and ambitious cyclist as he forged ahead alone on a steep col. The camera sometimes showed the beautiful mountains and the road that ...
Finally thought I understood something about the Internet
What follows is the post scriptum for a facebook group I founded, entitled Future sustainable living village, a group I couldn't continue to be a member of for reasons explained below
This group was started by me a few months ago to seriously consider a future sustainable living group using a facebook "group".
But seems to be ...
Naming Miru
It is our invitation to the cultured realm of existence: giving her a name. It is the first "act" and symbolic gift we bestow upon her. Naming has played an important role in every religion, and newborns have almost always been named after something or someone. Naming preserved a lineage, honored the founding elders on ...
Alex Jones. The Right To Arm Bears
Alex Jones. Now here's a man who says that the "second amendment is sacrosanct". As with all individuals alluding to the sacred to support their cause, I feel some suspicion. Watching him agitate void of manners vis-à-vis CNNs Pierce Morgan didn't put that feeling to sleep. But let's give the bawdy badger some credit, after ...