Category: spirit

• Everything’s Coming Up Oranges

  Jan 26

  Orange liqueur is difficult to understand, probably because there’s more than one dominant style. The fact that it’s an ingredient in so many diverse cocktails—just think of the flavor profiles… more ›

• Kronos Quartet

  Jan 16

  Kronos Quartet is one of my favorite music groups. I first saw them perform live in 1989 or 1990, and as the cliche goes, they changed my life. I had… more ›

• Top 10 Composers

  Jan 24

  According to the number of plays in my iTunes for all my music categorized under Classical, here are my Top 10 Composers: John Cage Karol Szymanowski Kevin Volans Samuel Barber… more ›

• Re[s/v]olutions

  Jan 7

  I resolve… to trouble myself, to trouble self, to trouble trouble;to paint it black, learn to fiddle for when it burns;to light the first match, throw the first brick;to not allow… more ›

• Sacrament

  Nov 14

  “Światu grożą trzy plagi, trzy zarazy. Pierwsza–to plaga nacjonalizmu. Druga–to plaga rasizmu. Trzecia–to plaga religijnego fundamentalizmu. Te trzy plagi mają samą cechę, wspólny mianownik–jest nim agresywna, wszechwładna, totalna irracjonalność. Do… more ›

• The Circumscription of Triangles & Squares

  Mar 24

  Spirit/soul/life, pneuma/pysché/zoè or bios, spiritus/anima/vita, Geist/Seele/Leben­­­—these are the triangles and squares in which we imprudently pretend to recognize stable semantic determinations, and then to circumscribe or skirt round the abysses… more ›

• Antimanifesto for a Simulated World

  Feb 26

  Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 Simulacra and Simulation, translated by Sheila Faria Glaser in 1994, contains a four-page essay entitled “Hypermarket and Hypercommodity.” This short essay articulates the structure of the media… more ›

• Chatter

  Jan 9

  There’s a voice continually narrating in my mind. At no point is it louder than when I’m still, attempting to meditate. Sometimes I have to turn that voice against itself… more ›

• Nothing Really Matters

  Jun 25

  Madonna’s “Nothing Really Matters” was on heavy rotation on British Airways on-flight music programming during the summer of 1998 while he enjoyed his summer break from teaching in Japan. He… more ›

• In vino veritas

  Nov 18

  In a year of Thursdays, today remains the greatest Thursday of all. Today is not only World Philosophy Day but also the day on which the Beaujolais nouveau is released. I… more ›