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April 8, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I spent the past few months investigating Artificial Intelligence (AI). Though it resides far outside of my educational background, AI actually affects nearly every field. More importantly, however, is how little understood it is. I have asked numerous people to define it, but …
March 11, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week marked the end of HMU’s Winter Film Series. I cannot express how much I love this series. If you were unable to join us, never fear, we will host another film series next winter. In the meantime, the following thoughts resulted …
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February 11, 2022 Thanks to Gabriel E. Etienne, a 2021 Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. The movie Moonlight is a coming-of-age story that details the complexity of the journey of boyhood to manhood of the character Little/Black/Chiron through the issues of authentic Blackness and hegemonic masculinity (Johnson 2003). This review uses the concepts …
February 4, 2022 Thanks to Jaya Upadhyay, a 2021 Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. What does a poet mean when he says, “I am not contained between my hat and boots,” but then adds, “If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles?” What does it mean to exist beyond the …
January 28, 2022 Thanks to Rebecca L. Thacker, a 2021 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. As we enter the new year, as per usual the media is filled with “year-in-review” articles and listicles: the year’s best books, tv, movies, and music, the top ten highlights of 2021, those we’ve lost in 2021. The …
January 21, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I have written about George Orwell’s novel 1984 in the past on this blog (see the links at the end of this post), but never the film. Today’s post focuses on the film adaptation, Nineteen Eighty-Four. The film stars John Hurt playing Winston …
September 11, 2020 Thanks to Dean Coslovi, a 2020 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. “Among my writings my Zarathustra stands by itself. With this book I have given mankind the greatest gift it has ever been given.” – Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche has his enlightened character, Zarathustra, proclaim …
June 21, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Read Lalucq’s full poem from Fortino Sámano here: https://poets.org/poem/fortino-samano Bergson’s Creative Evolution: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26163/26163-h/26163-h.htm For our upcoming Quarterly Discussion, we will discuss a selection from Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution. I had such a difficult time narrowing down this reading because there are so many …
October 14, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “So come out of your cave walking on your hands/ And see the world hanging upside down/ You can understand dependence when you know the maker’s land” – Mumford and Sons, “The Cave” “Without pride or delusion,/ the fault of attachment overcome,/ intent …
June 10, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Letting the mind wander allows for thought development, but the mind must maintain a force, a desire to trace that thought. To be present with a single thought, live in it and travel with it. This idea of presence draws us in a …
