two hands one heart
I have been really bummed lately. Antioch College is being murdered by Antioch University. A better explanation can be found at tex's blog , this chilling video , or antiochians.org . This place is where I was first exposed to Trin T Min-ha, Sadie Plant, Situationists, Deleuze, Shelter, Mayan Calendars and the notion of 2012, Rodan, Charles Mingus, The Heroic Trio, Morphogenetic Field Theory, Grey Gardens, Oscar Micheaux, Galactic Theory, a billion indie bands, Hakim Bey, Quantum Physics, Media Theory, Post-Structuralism, Philosophy of Science, picking wild morels, Robert Anton Wilson, Ethnobotany, Baudrillard and all those other french guys, Coltrane vs Ornette, on and on to infinity.
This place needs to exist, as it has since the 1850s, where the weirdest, smartest kid from every high school can feel not so weird and find people to talk to and learn from. The magical town of Yellow Springs, Ohio deserves it. So does the future.
Bums me out, too.