An illustration by the hand of Albert Tissandier Becoming your own teacher No teacher can give us what we are looking for, because a teacher can only communicate knowledge, not the original intuition from which that knowledge arose. Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
"American Landscape" by Edward Hopper (1920) An Ox-Herder without his ox The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures mirror something of the Hero’s Journey, but they also include a bit more Lacanian honesty than Campbell’s popular monomyth. Matthew Stanley • Buddhism
The brightest light casts the darkest shadow Provocations from Samuel Loncar and Justin Murphy's conversation - the corruption of the best is the worst. Matthew Stanley • Moloch Theory
"In the wild north" by Ivan Shishkin A seedling pine Are we raising our young people to throw themselves up against the storms which rage at the highest altitudes of our civilization? How will these seedlings become strong pines? Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
I'll be presenting at TUCON 2024 "De-programming the schooled subject with Illich and Lacan" - accepted paper proposal for TUCON 2024 Matthew Stanley • Moloch Theory
The last page of Dr. Seuss' "I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew" (1965) Giving your troubles some troubles too Instead of trying to escape your life, why not give your troubles some trouble too? Learning from Dr. Seuss' bildungsroman. Matthew Stanley
