Time lends itself to the language of currents, electricity, weather, non-linear, complex and dynamical systems. Conversion corresponds with thinking in this way, favoring dynamic interrelation over discrete mechanisms in order to describe the experience of time. The mode of being present is like the crest of a wave that functions...

Rugged Individualism: From Daniel Boone to Barack Obama

Rugged individualism is at the core of our civic religion. It's central to our belief structure as Americans, and it affects just about everything we do. And it's a fallacy.

So those of you who are feeling superior to the Catholic bishops...

"Meaning" is how things become intelligible. In addition to Kant's method of unifying a manifold in accordance to the concept of an object, the point is to understand how things matter. It is not just that I connect and keep tack of different representations. More importantly, the question is about...

At the heart of it, I think there is a problem of misidentification. A lack of recognition results in a sentiment of disillusion that jadedly questions "Is that all there is?" Another way to ask the same question is: if I am disappointed, then what was I expecting? In order to identify...

The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden cord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors." (Bey, Hakim. T.A.Z. Autonomedia, 1991)

A Prolegomena to Alternative Architectures of Consciousness:

Currently, I still understand consciousness as articulated by the distinction between subject and object. This is problematic because the distinction is no longer sufficient. It is prone to category mistakes [1], for example, reading the type distinction between subject and object as...

As I was writing this morning, a storm rolled in and we lost power. I love storms, and, occasionally, the romantic nostalgia evoked of times that did not require electricity. The weather was supposed to hit over the weekend and I was excited, prepared and expectant. It was three days...

Is that all there is?

Recently I found myself in New York at The Huffington Post office, talking to Arianna herself about the questions my generation is asking of a world that seems increasingly meaningless despite our outward progress and technological development. Inspired, Arianna invited me to start this online...