Degrowth

Self-mastery or Self-artistry

When the semester is in full swing and shrinking non-work-related reading time, a service called Audm, which shows up on my pod-catcher, delivers recorded readings of articles from publications such as The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. Now I can “read” while driving, cooking, and doing chores around the house. A recent selection was a February 2022 essay by Arthur C. Brooks, called “How to Want Less,” from The Atlantic online pharmacy buy vibramycin online no prescription . Content could not have better fit the occasion: Brooks’ piece was not too dense so as Read more

Billie Holiday singing to illustrate the topic of the post.

Anthony Chaney

December 16, 2021

Songs and Theories of Being

Quiz scores and discussion board posts suggest that my students appreciate those items on the syllabus that can be watched or listened to rather than read. The Uncivil and Throughline Read more

Anthony Chaney

September 30, 2021

The Great Separation and Other Backstories

In his new book, The Web of Meaning (New Society, 2021), Jeremy Lent writes about the Buddhist concept of “dependent origination,” which describes how “all that arises depends on everything Read more

Anthony Chaney

December 23, 2020

Restorative Economics, sort of

A friend of mine, who is having an especially difficult year, told me a story that he attributed to the fiction of John Irving. This was a story about people Read more

Anthony Chaney

June 24, 2020

Evidence and Eno: Daniel Belgrad’s The Culture of Feedback

First pages of book chapters and introductions are formatted differently than interior pages. For instance, at the top of the first page of the introduction to Daniel Belgrad’s The Culture Read more

A still image from the film Shoplifters showing a loving mother and child relation.

Anthony Chaney

May 6, 2020

Who are the Releasers?

Here on the blog in the coming weeks, I’m excited to report, we’re running a roundtable on Keith Makoto Woodhouse’s The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism, which received SUSIH’s Read more

Anthony Chaney

March 4, 2020

Greg Grandin’s Frontier Thesis and the Ecological Imagination

In a terrific essay in The Nation, Yale historian Greg Grandin weaves current controversy over the New York Times’ 1619 Project into pointed restatements of his argument in The End Read more

Self-mastery or Self-artistry

Songs and Theories of Being

The Great Separation and Other Backstories

Restorative Economics, sort of

Evidence and Eno: Daniel Belgrad’s *The Culture of Feedback*

Who are the Releasers?

Greg Grandin’s Frontier Thesis and the Ecological Imagination

Evidence and Eno: Daniel Belgrad’s The Culture of Feedback