Top visiting countries, Top read posts – for January – for four websites (and more)
I noted the top read poems and visiting countries over at https://subspacewagon.systems/ so that got me to thinking about some of my other websites. Here is some information for January for some of my other sites. Top visiting countries, Top read posts for https://www.tilley.blog/ – for January Top visiting countries outside the United States, which …
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Essays And Memos On My Fundamental Misunderstanding Of Ontology – Internet Archive
In addition to my four books of poetry (so far), I have uploaded a collection of essays, short essays, and memos to Internet Archive for free download https://archive.org/details/essays-and-memos-on-my-fundamental-misunderstanding-of-ontology-by-richard-j-tilley Here is the list of essays, short essays, and memos included in the book: Towards Post-Violence Societies: An Outline of Interdisciplinary Violence Studies and Violence Research Rights …
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The importance of a singular leader (cross posting)
This is not a popular opinion, but I have come to believe that social movements do not ultimately bring systematic change. Not be a contrarian, but I think it takes the right individual that sparks the final measure that brings about real, fundamental change. Let me give some examples. Martin Luther King, Jr. I know …
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Note on a Completed Project: Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” (Parts I-III)
I recently completed a three-part series over at scifi.global on Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory”. It is completely based on a single paper that he wrote. I have read two or three of Mills’s books in the past. I considered reading his book with Carole Pateman, Contract & Domination, before writing this series, …
Note: Righteous Nation Ideology in Science Fiction and Climate Justice Today
John F. Sitton’s criticism in “Hannah Arendt’s Argument for Council Democracy” (Polity, 1987 – link) and Odd Arne Westad’s outline of the Korea’s Neo-Confucian ‘Righteous Nation’ ideology (Empire and Righteous Nation, 2021) perfectly shows what we know about the intended goals of the Abrahamic god, and the limitations of that god’s promises. This is essentially …
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Reposting Meaninglessfull Note on Music and God: the truth of silent observation
Just realized I haven’t listened to any music for a few days now. I do wonder if not listening to music for a while explains how I was so productive [recently]. I once went 6 – 8 years (?) not listening to music in order to get closer to God. It worked. For clarification, I …
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Memo: Rethinking Degrowth as Resistance to Capitalism
I have had some time to rethink what Koch & Elmore wrote about Baudrillard’s elaboration on Marxist ideas and the pervasiveness of capitalism. I have two or three Baudrillard texts, but it has been so long since I have read them, I could not tell you if they discussed these issues, so keep in mind …
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