Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

The Current Scene Through Different Windows The strength of language doesn't consist in its capacity to pin things down or sort things out. "Word work," Toni Morrison said in Stockholm, "is sublime because it is generative," its felicity in its reach toward the ineffable. "We die," she said. "That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." Shakespeare shaped the same thought as a sonnet, comparing his beloved to a summer's day, offering his rhymes as surety on the bond of immortality: "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,/So long lives this and this gives life to thee."  Lewis Lapham  Word Order: The Internet as the Toy With a Tin Ear  Huffpost

In A Thousand Nutshells All artists are pickpockets. friend of Robert W. Fuller The right way to wholeness is a longissima via , not straight but snakelike, a path that unites the opposites in the manner of the guiding caduceus. C. G. Jung (1968 [1944] par. 6)

Diverse Disclosure Gratitude to Old Teachers Robert Bly When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake, We place our feet where they have never been. We walk upon the unwalked. But we are uneasy. Who is down there but our old teachers? Water that once could take no human weight- We were students then - holds up our feet, And goes on ahead of us for a mile. Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness.

Playful Learnings And Teachings On Blue Morning, my big bicycle, steel crow or raven, minimally gentrified in the land of finance capitalism, dressed for the investment climate, anonymous among brokers and quant geeks, adjusting for fiscal drift and partial de-indexation, bank rates and prime rates, in the great field of consortiums, task forces, hardliners, cabinet shuffles, party hacks and scrums, among wholly owned subsidiaries, past hot money flows, bond ratings, protected by the gnomes of Zurich and the oracles of the IMF, I was on alert to push my envelope/diversify my portfolio. My strategies were dream strategies. Apocalyptic-tack-talk strategies. Hallucinatory and liberal strategies. Rhizomatic and arborescent strategies. Visionary-fairy strategies. Musical stragedies. Strategies of laughter. Today I saw powerful wind in a hurry haul a graceful maple, rakish half crown shining gold, almost horizontal: it bowed over a house and showered its dark roof with leaves. My...

Other-Wise [G]enuine intellectual inquiry is always subversive. It challenges cultural and political assumptions. It critiques structures. It is relentlessly self-critical. It implodes the self-indulgent myths and stereotypes we use to elevate ourselves and ignore our complicity in acts of violence and oppression. Chris Hedges

Assisted Migration Of Ideas Any counsel worthy of the name should have culture at its core. Any counsel worthy of the name should begin to make a place in personal life for the rumoured, scattered story of who you come from where, and why. Counsel well done and honest makes a home for the orphan wisdom of personal life in the life of the world. Stephen Jenkinson

Polytropos When Lyotard states that "every utterance [in a language game] should be thought of as a 'move' in a game", his statement is itself a 'move' in a language game. Wikipedia Jean-François Lyotard Page The time-frame is the "neo-liberal" years. The painting refers beyond the frame now and again. The deep themes are emancipation, birth and rebirth, and Play. The poet is Ernest Hemingway.