In the beginning, there was nothing. No ground. And then things began to come together – literally come together. Through the forging of relationships, beings began to compose themselves and one another. Began, as well, to join together in new and ingenious ways to compose beings more complex and more diverse than before. If there is [...]
The following quotes come from John Steinbeck’s The Log from the Sea of Cortez (co-written, supposedly, with Ed Ricketts, but he is not credited on my edition): “… the Mexican sierra has ‘XVII-15-IX’ spines in the dorsal fin. These can easily be counted. But if the sierra strikes hard on the line so that our [...]
Following up on my previous two posts (here and here) on buddhism and the recent visit of the Dalai Lama, I want to elaborate on the position I see for Buddhism in the struggle for a better world. What is Buddhism? It’s not a religion like any other. In those sects where deities are acknowledged, [...]
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Tagged Bryant, Buddhism, capitalism, constructivism, Dalai Lama, Eightfold Path, Four Noble Truths, Huxley, meditation, Sorcery, Stengers, struggle, theory
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I’m still swamped by end of the semester work, but, in light of the Dalai Lama’s visit to UMD yesterday, I wanted to share a different perspective on Buddhist practice. This interview in Tricycle Magazine with the author and activist bell hooks provides an excellent starting point for thinking about Buddhism as a potential practice [...]
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Today the University of Maryland had the honor of hosting H.H. the Dalai Lama for the Sadat Lecture for Peace. You can view the entire lecture here. I was, unfortunately, not able to attend because I was teaching. I may have more to say on this lecture shortly.
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A few weeks ago, I brought up the idea of publishing an edited volume on Vulnerability. The idea generated a lot of interest, and, since then, Adam Robbert and I have been working in the background to write up an abstract to submit to Punctum Books, and to share with others who might be interested. [...]
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This weekend I’ve been skimming through parts of Holloway’s Crack Capitalism (thanks to Andre, Aaron, and dmf for pointing it out to me), and I think it seems to be a really powerful book. Written in a kind of manifesto style, a call to action rather than the often dry and pretentious style of much [...]
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The other day I received a google scholar notification about this article from Sarah Whatmore “Learning Through Computer Model Improvisations”. Needless to say, I promptly went to my institution’s library website, downloaded the pdf and read it. Interestingly, it aligns very well with the dissertation research that I have proposed to do, though there are [...]
I was out of town at a conference this past week, and spent the weekend getting caught up on some grading and helping out at UMD’s outreach day (called Maryland Day), but I saw this post by Levi and thought it might be a good one for me to add/respond to. So here goes. In [...]
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“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground.” -Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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