So… a few of you out there have picked up on the fact that there’s a hidden puzzle game in my new book, Free Your Mind. If that’s you, first of all, congratulations, because most people so[…]
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Category: Philosophy
Release Party!
Free Your Mind: New Philosophy, official release event at Clintonville Books, Wednesday July 1st, 2026, open to the public. https://clintonvillebooks.com/events/5612920260701 Imagine if Plato’s Symposium was set at a meeting of a Black secret-society, inside a boarded-up[…]
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Free Your Mind
I’m excited to announce that I’m preparing for release of my new book, “Free Your Mind: New Philosophy” on July 1, 2026. I’ve been working towards this book for the last 30 years, and it[…]
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Philosophy as Activism
Presenting “Philosophy as Activism” at the Cooperative Chess Cultural Center (4C) 80 Parsons Ave 7-8:30pm Alternate Wednesdays, March-April 2025 Free and open to the public. Free will offering to benefit the 4C. March 5: “What[…]
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Find Me at Partially Examined Life
Pop Culture Philosopher will be on hiatus this summer. However, I’m glad to announce that “Saints and Simulators,” my series on the intersection of religion and technology will be continuing at the Partially Examined Life[…]
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The Incredibles
In honor of the recent release of Incredibles 2, a repost of my look at the philosophical implications of the original movie. While I found it impossible not to like and enjoy Brad Bird’s animated[…]
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Is Our World a Computer Game?
I’m glad to announce I’ve expanded the below post into an entire book-length series that will be premiering in January 2019 on Partially Examined Life. In the meantime, please enjoy this repost of the original.[…]
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Happy World Philosophy Day!
Happy World Philosophy Day, everyone! Here’s an unusually multicultural list that makes a real effort at covering the philosophy of the world, not just a tiny corner of it. 70 Philosophy Books Everyone Should Read[…]
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We Invented the Remix, Part II
Last time, we looked at hip-hop sampling as a outgrowth of African polyphony, a way of creating something new by placing a different and contrasting line over the original. But there is more to it[…]
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A Philosopher Talks About The Good Place
I’ve been remiss in my role as a pop-culture philosopher in being a late-comer to the the show “The Good Place,” one of the most high-profile, pop-culture oriented pieces of media to ever make a[…]
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