Month: June 2011

• June 20, 2011

  The demise of the lectio divina

  The following is an excerpt from Ivan Illich’s book In the Vineyard of the Text. To give you some context: Hugh of St. Victor is the hero of the book. In this excerpt, Illich is describing the change in reading practice from a fully embodied, transformative experience (the lectio divina up until the 13th C.)…
• June 18, 2011

  Toward an alternative business model for philosophical counseling

  I’m giving a talk this afternoon at the APPA Annual Meeting just up the road at Columbia. The talk’s entitled “Toward an Alternative Business Model for Philosophical Counseling.” (Very catchy!) I’ll be arguing We’re living through a historical transition the result of which is that our old ways of life are inherently unworkable. At the…
• June 17, 2011

  Innisfree ho

  I awoke this morning and there in my ear was the first line of Innisfree: “I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree.” O, Yeats, as the hammer pounds down, the taxis swerve, and the summer gets thick with ire, I’ll join you there in Innisfree, and there, my friend, we’ll listen to…
• June 15, 2011

  A writer’s life

  O, give me but sun and wind and trees so that I may work till dark. Ah, there we are.
• June 14, 2011

  Venkat on the life and death of the corporation

  In “A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600-2100,” Venkat examines the 3 phases of the corporate form: maximum power (years 1600-1800), maximum reach (1800-1980), and slow death (1980 and afterward). Strikingly  he writes, The Age of Corporations is coming to an end. The traditional corporation won’t vanish, but it will cease to be the center…