Meandering home

Professor Trompsky is back!

Professor Trompsky, you said that the current pandemic is the defining moment of capitalism's moral refinement preparing its coming demise? Could you explain? Well, uhm, we see that more and more people are pushed towards precarious jobs with no security whatsoever and more importantly devoid of any real interaction with their peers. That, you know, ...

16 March, 2021

Chomsky, labor, meaning, pandemic, Trompsky

Laughs, Philosophy

Corona for nihilists

After we have felt, in our bodies, that we are still worthy even if we create nothing - how would we create? The corona crisis is a special time for nihilists. The clean separation of society in essential and non-essential activities signals that money is not the only dimension of meaning that informs our political ...

21 May, 2020

corona, meaning, nihilism, pandemic, politics, worth

Philosophy, The good life

Whatever works (flarf)

Howdy, There's no doubt that your web site could be having internet browser compatibility issues. Raise your arms their own original position and then squeeze the blades of the shoulder. In countries like America where we eat little fish, the obesity rate is sky rocketing. First step is to write several high quality articles but additionally ...

15 January, 2019

ad, empty, flarf, meaning, nihilist

Poetry

Meditation on purpose

We sit still with our eyes closed. In the distance, across the fields, are green hills. Alright, this is my concrete situation perhaps not yours. Never mind. The why-question or more precisely the what are we here for question is personally daunting. So much so, that we assume we can hardly help each other finding ...

8 June, 2018

fear, love, meaning, meditation, purpose

Philosophy, The good life

Reading: The Envoy Of Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert

Today, another Polish giant, Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998). He has been called the most beloved Polish poet of his day, ahead of Milosz and Szymborska. I read a revolutionary poem set in a key that affects me, a poem about the stubborn messengers of our hollow truth, in a translation by Bogdana Carpenter: The Envoy Of Mr. ...

19 December, 2017

anthology, Herbert, meaning, oppression, Poland

Poetry

Reading: The Meaning of Simplicity by Yannis Ritsos

Let's do another Ritsos (1909-1990) poem today. I've read 'Injustice' before but felt like more Ritsos. You are looking at a translation by Edmund Keeley here, quoted (not 'reprinted'!) from an anthology of international poetry: The Meaning of Simplicity I hide behind simple things so you'll find me; if you don't find me, you'll find the ...

24 October, 2017

anthology, meaning, simplicity, Yannis Ritsos

Poetry

We need…

to find meaning, not in what we are doing, but in the superlative of what we do.

Naming Miru

It is our invitation to the cultured realm of existence: giving her a name. It is the first "act" and symbolic gift we bestow upon her. Naming has played an important role in every religion, and newborns have almost always been named after something or someone. Naming preserved a lineage, honored the founding elders on ...

12 January, 2013

association, baby girl names, baby names, goddess, lineage, meaning, Miru, Naming, Polynesia, symbolic

Miru

A sample meditation

I found this prepared on my computer today. Could you help me explain what it means?

meditation

You see the elements of your memory tumbling down in front of you, in a great column of swirling hot air. You can recognize people, scenes, ideas that have been important to you.See them all fall down. ...

20 June, 2011

grip, hot air, meaning, meditation, memory

Uncategorized

A sample meditation

20 June, 2011

grip, hot air, meaning, meditation, memory

Uncategorized

March 11. Santiago sweet.

I decide to meet someone today I call that person Sara because that's what first comes to my mind. She was not on our overnight bus to Santiago de Chile, I didn't meet her on the streets of this five million metropole with the 02 area code, neither was it the woman that sold me ...

18 March, 2009

meaning, Santiago, Sara

Travel

March 11. Santiago sweet.

18 March, 2009

meaning, Santiago, Sara

Travel

February 8,9. Pombal built this city.

Marquise de Pombal is the Hausmann of Lisbon. The streets of Rossio are laid out like a chessboard, like Barcelona or Manhattan. That's Pombal's work. They have Pombal-style houses that are made of wood in order to make them earthquake-proof. In the 1755 earthquake the city was almost completely distroyed by the tsunami and the ...

15 February, 2009 7 November, 2018

earthquake, meaning, Pombal

Travel

February 6.

Consumption and religion. If you buy a cup of coffee or a Patéis de Lisboa, you just put your coins on the counter without any other emotion than the great taste of this combination. It's my reason (in fact, one of my reasons) to be here in Lisbon and write in the February sun. ...

15 February, 2009 7 November, 2018

hostel, meaning, product, truth

Travel