Month: October 2025
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Philosophy You Can Feel: The Cosmology of Tai Chi
Taijiquan is not merely exercise but embodied Neo-Confucian philosophy. Each form enacts the cosmological principles of Zhou Dunyi and Zhu Xi: the emergence from Wuji to Taiji, the interplay of yin and yang, the cycling of phases. The body becomes a laboratory for investigating universal patterns, transforming the practitioner into a conscious participant in cosmic creativity: philosophy made tangible, metaphysics…
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The Politics of Letting People Die: Republican Administrative Violence
This article frames the 2025 US Government shutdown not as a political dispute but a moral crisis, arguing the Republican budget uses deep cuts to healthcare and foreign aid to produce lethal outcomes for the vulnerable. This is necropolitics—governance through administrative violence. When policy systematically eliminates vulnerable populations through bureaucratic means, we are witnessing the core mechanics of fascism.