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February 14, 2025
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
If we’re going to celebrate something on this Valentine’s Day, let’s celebrate dance. Take this performance by Dai Matsuoka with Jeffrey Ziegler on the cello. Filmed in black and white with great stone structures on the stage, Matsuoka plays with shadow. He moves through space, around the pillars sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly. The viewer must ask what these actions mean.
January 17, 2025
Thanks to 2023 Fellow in Ideas, Chad Greene, for today’s post.
I was a professor, and it was the week before the semester ended, so I should have been grading. But instead of colored pens and stacks of students’ essays, on my desk were a piece of cardboard, a permanent marker, and a set of acrylic paints and brushes. After a visit to the exceptional exhibition “Peter Carr: Artist for Survival” at the Cerritos College Art Gallery,
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October 27, 2023
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
Viola Cordova was one of the first Native American women to earn a degree in philosophy. Born in 1937, she grew up in Taos, New Mexico. Embracing both her own past and her curiosity of the world, she discarded notions that philosophy should be separated into categories like white or western. Instead, she focused on using all of the tools that we have been given,
January 14, 2022
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
Though I do not excel at problem solving, I always like to know that someone has a plan. I like the security of emergency plans in hotels, for example. In the outdoors, I have first-aid supplies for all sorts of possibilities. And I never leave home without water and gear to change a tire. So while recently reading Bill Gates’s book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and The Breakthroughs We Need,
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January 22, 2021
Thanks to Turkay Gasimova, a 2020 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post.
In his book, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil, Timothy Mitchell challenges traditional knowledge of the history of the Middle East, energy sources, and environmental politics.
Mitchell who had previously written a remarkable book on the colonization of Egypt, for some years spent time in the Middle East,
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