24 January 2016
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast, Weekly Why
Local poet Marc Powell joins Stephen for some high-frequency riffing on world systems, philosophy …and each other
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activism, Adam Smith, addiction, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Anarcho-Syndicalism, art, Austin, Beehive Collective, beer, bees, Capital Factory, capitalism, cartoons, celebrity, communication, conservative fusionism, culture, David Holmgren, death, EFF-Austin, environmentalism, Facebook, FarmVille, flooding, food, gentrification, Heidegger, hubris, humility, Iain McGilchrist, IMF, intellectualism, Ivan Illich, John Michael Greer, Jon Lebkowsky, language, Marc Powell, Masanobu Fukuoka, meta, mythology, Neal Postman, Neil Degrasse-Tyson, permaculture, poetry, politics, privilege, progress, reality, religion, Richard Dawkins, Roland Barthes, San Francisco, science, Silicon Valley, Socrates, somatic experience, Stephen, stereo, Taoism, technology, The Holy Mountain, The Internet, The Peripheral, The Singularity, Tony Robbins, TV, Wendell Berry, William Gibson, World Bank
24 April 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
At any given moment thousands of people around the world are praying (and since it’s Easter today you can probably tack a few more zeroes onto that estimate). Whether it’s praying for the destruction of sinful local businesses or just a little tsunami from God to show the world He’s still awake at the control […]
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Aperture Science, ASMR, Buddha, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, consequentialism, deontology, Dr. Webb, Eleanor Stump, existentialism, God, harm, incest, Islam, J. Crew, Jeopardy!, Judaism, Kiki, Leisure Suit Larry, mantra, meditation, memes, nature, nurture, personality, philosophy of religion, placebo effect, prayer, problem of petitionary prayer, religion, Repent Amarillo, Richard Dawkins, science, Socrates, Stephen, synesthesia, Texas Tech University, The Daily Show, worship, Zagzebsky
22 October 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
We hear a lot of talk these days about “Integrity,” and how it’s all good to have and such. But what does it even mean to have integrity? In this episode BF took a trip to Curzertown (the realm of Texas Tech philosophy professor Dr. Howard Curzer) to find out the answer. Ad-hoc philosopher Michael […]
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acting, Aristotle, authenticity, Barbie, Bernard Williams, Cheshire Calhoun, consistency, counter-culture, democracy, espionage, ethics, existentialism, generalism, healthcare, Hegel, honesty, Howard Curzer, identity, integrity, James Joyce, leadership, love, marriage, meta, Michael H, Nietzsche, Plato, politics, power, rational anarchy, Rene Descartes, sci-fi, Socrates, Star Wars, Stephen, StrengthsQuest, Texas Tech University, truthfulness, virtue, Wikipedia
06 October 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Input, Achiever, Restorative, Deliberative… to many these are but a few odd-sounding words, but to those of us here at BF they are the vocabulary of success and self-knowledge itself. They are Strengths, as defined by the Gallup Organization’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This past weekend Jay Killough of Texas Tech University Career Services joined us to […]
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beer, Chip Anderson, Don Clifton, Facebook, Gallup, hope, horoscopes, Jay Killough, Jediah, Kevin, Martin Siligman, mathematics, nature, Ning, nurture, Plato, psychology, Punk IPA, Rackspace, skill, sociology, Socrates, statistics, Stephen, StrengthsQuest, success, talent, Texas Tech University, Warren Ellis, weakness
16 September 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Stop me if you’ve heard this one… a pianist, a mathematician, and a crab walk into a bar. No wait… I forget how the rest goes. Anyway, this week Julie Meadows, now back from the future, joined me alongside sneezing philosopher Michael Hayslip and spaghetti extraordinaire Kevin Saunders to talk about some music. I think […]
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aesthetics, Amadeus, art, Bach, Beethoven, definition, Glenn Gould, John Cage, Johnny Cash, Julie, Kevin, meta, Michael H, motion capture, Mozart, music, Nine Inch Nails, Philip Glass, philosophy of language, philosophy of music, piano, post-modernism, Socrates, sound, Stephen, Susan Langer, synesthesia, theater, Tom and Jerry, Vladimir Horowitz, William Westney
