Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Piehole Proclamations Part holy fool and court jester, part spiritual lawyer for the human encounter with the divine, the bard is the great rememberer, the librarian of all refused stories. Stephen Jenkinson

Irreverent Revelations I know of no other manner of dealing with great tasks than as play . Nietzsch e Most truths are less interesting than the complex and dynamic intercrossing of forces, intensities,discourses, desires, accidents, idiosyncrasies, and relations of power that produce those culminations. For these networks, while revealing the bifurcations and determinations, the choices, impulses, and propensities, en-route to a particular set of distillations, cannot fail to indicate at the same time unactualized possibilities, fields of indefinitude, and lines of escape. Intro Teachers In Nomadic Spaces Kaustuv Roy

The Cult Of Working For A Living To make the simplest gesture with the hand can convey the utmost sense of life… Activity in itself means nothing: it is often a sign of death. By simple external pressure, by force of surroundings and example, by the very climate which activity engenders, one can become part of a monstrous death machine, such as America, for example. Henry Miller, Tropic Of Capricorn

Matters Of Life And Death But I haven’t described Dream City. I’ll try to. It is a place of many voices, where the unified singular self is an illusion. Naturally, Obama was born there. So was I. When your personal multiplicity is printed on your face, in an almost too obviously thematic manner, in your DNA, in your hair and in the neither this nor that beige of your skin—well, anyone can see you come from Dream City. In Dream City everything is doubled, everything is various. You have no choice but to cross borders and speak in tongues. That’s how you get from your mother to your father, from talking to one set of folks who think you’re not black enough to another who figure you insufficiently white. It’s the kind of town where the wise man says “I” cautiously, because “I” feels like too straight and singular a phoneme to represent the true multiplicity of his experience. Instead, citizens of Dream City prefer to use the collective pronoun “we.” Zadie Smith, Speaking In Tongue...

On The Other Hand All these many thousands of clips are little beautiful animals found by the wayside, which I keep in front of me as I move sideways through life. The octopus arms of the institutions, the military-industrial complex, the financial-corporate complex, the prison-industrial complex, the schooling-industrial complex, the entertainment-corporate media complex, the inferiority complex, the psycho-pharmaceutical complex, never mind complex adaptive systems, all intertwine, like an octopus orgy, and we with our complexes try to navigate them suckers. Jack Saturday Smiley and West radio show The great Stan Rogers Stefan Molyneux, Freedomain Radio

 Back to (ugh!) School A bag of anti-school cookies, fresh out of the oven! This podcast is dedicated to the school teachers I happen to love. Come sup with the great mavericks of "education." People who loved kids more than their careers. John Taylor Gatto, John Holt, Edgar Z Friedenberg, Jean Houston, Robert Anton Wilson, Marshall McLuhan, and more! Thanks to London Real for Tim Freke and much else besides. Here's the Unplugged Mom podcast This is the second in this podcast series to examine schooling. More of the same and different here . I recently received a beautiful paper from a school teacher who spent twenty-five or thirty years right in the front-line trenches, in the classroom. She gives the perspective that armchair generals sitting back in their ivory towers just don't have. Her title tells it all: "Torch This Tower." She states there is no facet of the American school situation which is at all redeemable and be...

Tinkertalk   “I delight,” he [Shaw] wrote, in throwing [ Pygmalion ] at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else." quoted by Zadie Smith in Speaking In Tongues