Weekly Pose Ponder No. 22
Summarizing the week's posts -- political practices, sitting in cognitive chaos, Anne of Green Places, mission woes; Arendt, Arendt, all things Arendt
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My class on Arendt’s The Human Condition continues, and this week I had a quasi-meltdown as to whether my mission here at Pose Ponder makes any sense. Monday’s Findings drew a lot of traffic, and Anne of Green Places provided welcome consolation. :)
Next installment reading with Dan: Storythinking, ch. 6.
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Findings: Political Practices
Welcome to many new subscribers this week! Pose Ponder publishes daily three weeks on, one week off. This is week three. On Mondays I share what I’ve been reading. It’s an eclectic mix.
How to be a Non-Expert
Too much going on with Arendt and All the Things, and I just can’t pull my thoughts together. Normally I wouldn’t tell you that, dear reader. I wouldn’t own up to my state of cognitive chaos, but it’s part of today’s topic. The more I read, think, discuss, engage, the more I need to remind myself of a few de-chaoticizing principles that work (for me).
Anne of Green Places
Today’s Substack recommendation is the perfectly lovely photography and musings of Anne Thomas, who writes Anne of Green Places. Normally I wax on about a Substack’s mission and uniqueness, share representative posts, comment on why you might care, and such like. This time, I’ll just say, go there, explore, be edified, subscribe — and have a lovely day. 😄
Mission Undermined?
One of the great motivations drawing me to Arendt for thinking about the Anthropocene is that she understands breaks in history. Whether she’s following her friend Walter Benjamin in his Theses, or worrying about the upending of the history of political thought, or lamenting the “rise of the social,” or warning the world about the new danger of totalita…
Index No. 6 (Arendt & More Favorites)
Index posts come at the end of each three-week publishing cadence. (For new readers, Pose Ponder publishes weekdays for three weeks on, one week off.) Indexes are a chance for me to gather together a handful of older posts and re-present them.