Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Walks Outside The Box Art has made us myriad-minded. Oscar Wilde

Dots Connected And Otherwise Quotations in my works are like robbers by the roadside who make an armed attack and relieve an idler of his convictions. Walter Benjamin  In response, he made himself a diffuse, uncertain thing, a mass of contradictory, irresolvable voices that speak truth plurally. Zadie Smith, Speaking In Tongues

Pivoting The Discourse Commission By Ezra Pound From “Contemporania” Go, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied, Go also to the nerve-wracked, go to the enslaved-by-convention, Bear to them my contempt for their oppressors. Go as a great wave of cool water, Bear my contempt of oppressors.       Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. Go to the bourgeoise who is dying of her ennuis, Go to the women in suburbs.       Go to the hideously wedded, Go to them whose failure is concealed, Go to the unluckily mated, Go to the bought wife, Go to the woman entailed.       Go to those who have delicate lust, Go to those whose delicate desires are thwarted, Go like a blight upon the dullness of the world; Go with your edge against this, Strengthen the subtle cords,       Bring confidence upon the algae and the ...

All These Things And More 2014! Leaping in. The topsoil of this "arcades project" is around 30-some years deep, with, as all good soil, deeper bits and newer shit. I consider myself a longtime player in the underplayground in these 30-odd "neoliberal" bullshit years. Here is my collection of stuff I picked up in my underground tunneling, under the mall, beneath the school, beneath the bottom line. Jump in anywhere, from the first in the series to the most recent - they are equally relevant, their themes endlessly entwine and blend. Jack Anson Rabinbach, editor of New German Critique summarizes Benjamin’s thought […]: The world is… dispersed in fragments, and in these fragments, the fragments of the world that God has now turned his back on, reside certain presences, which attest to the former existence of their divine character. You cannot actively go about to discover these divine presences, but they can be revealed. According to Rabinbach, Be...

Bit Of A Melange But to live variously cannot simply be a gift, endowed by an accident of birth; it has to be a continual effort, continually renewed. Zadie Smith, Speaking In Tongues General Abner Doubleday wrote to Bachelder in this chastened spirit five years after the congressional appropriation: "It is difficult in the excitement of battle to see every thing going on around us for each has his own part to play and that absorbs his attention to the exclusion of every thing else. People are very much mistaken when they suppose because a man is in a battle, he knows all about it." Gettysburg Regress By John Summers New Republic

Key Excerpts In Rough Narrative We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other. Sharon Salzberg Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent van Gogh

What On Earth? I am a conservator of endangered wonder in a time much imperilled and imperilling. I am a herder of unruly propositions that kick at the stall, sometimes all night. I am a caretaker of what I have been entrusted with, and I suppose my job is to have some discernment in how and when and if I lift those things up into the light, for others to consider. And in so doing I try to keep lithe and well practiced the ragged hum of human wonder that can bind us in something very like kinship, to each other and to those who came before us. Especially to them. When I remember to, my teaching lifts up my teachers, but always it is a praise song to them and their teaching. And especially to their teachers, and to theirs, to the ones I don’t know and will never meet. These Very Days of Wonder Dec 9, 2013 by Stephen Jenkinson Song clip Everlast - what it's like