Bootsy: 1st Album In 6 Years
Whoa! This is funkelicious news for funkaholics. Very promising sample. H/T OffBeat. See also Billboard. Bernie Worrellbootsy collinsFunkadelicmusicparliament
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Antisemitic Violence in Europe, 2005-2015
No surprise concerning the perpetrators, the unholy alliance of the green and the red. Full report here. anti-SemitismislamJew hatredregressive left
Do U Want It?
Yes I do. This for funky Friday. As a dyed-in-the-wool funkster I’m hoping to be able catch this funkumentary about the Maple Leaf staple Papa Grows Funk. With no play lists and no rehearsals every Papa Grows Funk performance is its own masterpiece of funk. do u want it?funkJohn Grosnew orleanspapa grows funk
Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind
Coming soon from Shaun Gallagher. Embodied cognitionenactivismneurosciencephenomenologyPhilosophy of mindphilosophy of social sciencepragmatismShaun Gallaghersituated cognition
Walker Percy Wednesday 150
What if then even the erotic becomes devalued? What if it happens, as Paul Ricoeur put it, that, “at the same time that sexuality becomes insignificant, it becomes more imperative as a response to the disappointments experienced in other sectors of human life”? What then? Does the self simply diminish, subside into apathy like laboratory…
John McWhorter on the Evolution of Language and Words on the Move
Russ Roberts chats with John McWhorter. John McWhorterlanguageLinguisticsPhilosophy of LanguageRuss RobertsSpontaneous order
Booker T Jones
A lifelong ambition to see Booker T live came to fruition this past weekend. This was no master lazily going through the “greatest hits” motions but a whistle-sharp musical genius taking us on the amazing Stax journey and surrounded with younger extremely talented musicians and vocalists doing justice to foundational songs — Knock on Wood and…
Explaining Postmodernism
The very excellent Stephen Hicks whom I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this year has made his book freely available online. constructivismcultural marxismpost modernismregressive leftrelativismstephen hicks
Walker Percy Wednesday 149
Five modes of recreation might be deduced from the semiotic which follows upon the placement of an autonomous unspeakable self in its world. The recreational modes of the autonomous self are understandable in terms of the semiotic options open to it, that is, those transactions with its world, itself, and other selves which are specified…
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Someone has uploaded a reissue of Bernard Williams’ classic book. [m]y conclusion is that the demands of the modern world on ethical thought are unprecedented, and the ideas of rationality embodied in most contemporary moral philosophy cannot meet them; but some extension of ancient thought, greatly modified, might be able to do so. Wanting philosophy…
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