Month: November 2011
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On 3 needful jobs in the 21st C.
Methodology Today I’ll be doing one kind of speculative philosophy. I’ll be asking what kinds of jobs may be needful in the coming years. These will be jobs I’ve made up because they don’t yet exist. I’ll be basing my speculative inquiry on a number of assumptions about the present social world. (These assumptions may…
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On blurbs and encomia
Had my encomium been turned into a blurb? On Sunday, I’d received a nice note in my inbox to the effect that the first issue of the Journal of Modern Wisdom had been selling at a good clip at the local book shops in Cambridge. A few weeks prior, I’d sent a favorable review of JMW…
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A message to the post-graduate reader
Dear post-graduate reader writing from the future, I thought it was time to address you directly. You get in touch with me, oh, maybe about once a week, you ask a litany of questions, and I vacillate between not replying to your exorbitant requests, writing the briefest of suggestions, and venturing lengthy answers. You’ve graduated from…
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When I’m running low on food…
When I’m running low on food, I leave my coat and keys where they are. I have a look around and spend another day and then another with what I have around me. I mix them all around me and make my mouth anew. “Make do with what you have?” No, savor whatever passes through your hands.
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Ben-Zvi Heller on otter coves
The following poem by Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller originally appeared in The Common No. 1 (March 31, 2011) on p. 99. Read the final two lines a few times. Lovely. Otter Cove I took three stones from there: one from the water one from the sun and a small one to grow. Co-translated by the poet and…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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