Dukkha
It seems that after 17 years, having a brain injury is still unsatisfactory. How then to construct an identity that destroys the idea of identity? The mere experience of awareness emeshed in...
View ArticleDisabled Cyborgs in Love
Ran across a request for Posts for a carnival,: I’d like the Blog Carnival to focus on the love we have for the things that make the world accessible for us…..Sometimes I smile when I wake up and see...
View ArticleWho Is Reborn?
Who is Reborn. Mixed media on paper. Atomic Geography Tagged: art, brain damage, Buddhism, disability, dukkah, rebirth
View ArticleCyborg Karma
Identity does not contradict non self, the third mark of existence in Buddhism. A cyborg ages and changes in both her animal and machine parts. With this impermanence, his identity at some point also...
View ArticleDisabled Disability
I had intended to write here quite a bit more than I have on disability. This is really saying something. Eighteen years ago I had viral encephalitis. It damaged mainly my temporal and parietal...
View ArticleNot Remembering Charles O’Hara
I just ran across a post, Remembering Charles O’Hara at Blau Stern Shwartz Shlonge. The post describes Blau’s memories of Charles O’Hara, and asks others to share theirs. A small part of the post...
View ArticleThe Photography Paradox
About a year after my brain injury, things had improved and stabilized enough for me to consider finding something to do with myself. We had a good, although somewhat out of date, 35mm camera. We had...
View ArticleDisabled Cyborgs In Space
Donna Haraway’s ironic, binary busting cyborg has deeply influenced the study of the relationship between the human and the technological since she published A Cyborg Manifesto in 1985. Providing a...
View ArticleElectric Atomic Geography
(Cross-posted at Ordinary Times.) This post is unsatisfactory. Maybe this is just your average all-pervasive dukkha and doesn’t merit additional attention. But it also seems to me as part of the story...
View ArticleListen
So I’m listening to music now. That is, not this very moment now, but now generally, day to day now. Now as in impulsive now, I’m in the mood for Thelonious Monk now, Nirvana now. I mention this...
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