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About thepoetsglass

Professor, poet, philosophical dilettante, plus some other impressively heady alliterations. Instructional designer and copywriter. Cognitive neuroscientist by academic pedigree. Self-diagnosed coffee addict, past performance artist, brooding bibliophile, and an always salty sailor.

Inside the Box : People don’t actually like creativity.

Posted on December 21, 2013 by thepoetsglass

Inside the Box : People don’t actually like creativity. Not a surprise to creative individuals: mass man doesn’t really like “creativity,” no matter how much people sling the word around.

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Memoria

Posted on December 21, 2013 by thepoetsglass

© 2012 Jasper James Photography Man breaks those windows silvered with years of regret— ice melts into streams.

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Hyperbole and a Half

Posted on December 20, 2013 by thepoetsglass

Hyperbole and a Half One of my favorite things, even without any brown paper packages tied up with strings.

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Heidegger on Dwelling as Being

Posted on December 20, 2013 by thepoetsglass
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A Note Regarding Ethics

Posted on December 17, 2013 by thepoetsglass

A Note Regarding Ethics.

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Reading Heidegger and Shakespeare Toward a Poetic God

Posted on December 17, 2013 by thepoetsglass

Reading Heidegger and Shakespeare Toward a Poetic God.

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Duality – opening tonight!

Posted on December 17, 2013 by thepoetsglass
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The Present Benefits of Living in the Past

Posted on December 17, 2013 by thepoetsglass
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Through the Crack in Consciousness: Nietzschean Metaphorizing

Posted on December 17, 2013 by thepoetsglass

Or, on the Philia of Human Being  Nietzsche creates metaphors with words and phrases the way the eyes create neural metaphors out of photons, and the way the brain creates cognitive metaphors out of neurochemical impulses received from optic nerves—phenomenological … Continue reading →

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Being Human: On the Metaphorizing Instinct

Posted on December 17, 2013 by thepoetsglass

“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be … Continue reading →

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A Letter to Students at Semester’s End

Posted on December 17, 2013 by thepoetsglass

Fare thee well, fellow travellers! It has been a pleasure getting to know all of you through your writing and in-class dialogue.  We have traveled far and wide across many intellectual landscapes.  Thank you for your hard work. Together we … Continue reading →

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A little glass ditty

Posted on December 17, 2013 by thepoetsglass
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