I love dogs. How they are with each other and with humans intrigues and amuses me endlessly. Maybe if I lived in the country or the suburbs I wouldn’t see so much of this, but in a city with a million dogs I probably run into a hundred dogs a...
Today's words to ponder come from David Graeber, American anthropologist and anarchist social and political activist. He died in 2020. “At a moment when the capitalists’ collective refusal to even consider rethinking any of their basic assumption about the world might well mean not just the death of capitalism, but...
More words from Raoul Vaneigem Everything that human beings do and undo passes through the mediation of language. The semantic realm is one of the main battlefields in the struggle between the will to live and the spirit of submission. The fight is unfair. Words serve Authority more faithfully than most...
We humans—with our species exceptionalism, our arrogance, our smarts and our not so smarts, our bloated brains and shrinking hearts, our degenerating ranges of sight and sound, the cooling of our touch, and the freezing of our feelings—are in deep, deep trouble. It is a trouble of our own making....
Today's words are from Belgian radical philosopher Raoul Vaneigem's influential (in the 1960s) book The Revolution of Everyday Life. “People are far too unperturbed, it seems to me, by the way in which the world, in certain periods, assumes the forms of the prevailing metaphysics. No matter how bizarre belief in...
Join me on May 2 or May 7 depending on the time that's convenient for you. A developmentalist is a person with whom you can create new possibilities. In this half-day workshop, participants will explore three features of a developmentalist’s practice and how you might build ‘stages’ for development in your practice...
Showing Up is a giving in itself. Looking forward to seeing you! ...
Last fall, I hosted Cracks and Rhizomes—Can We Save Ourselves From Ourselves? in which I put Bayo Akomolafe in conversation with social therapeutic practitioners. Such a rich meandering they did together! You can listen to the entirety or to short teasers. Bayo speaks a lot about cracks, and we should all...
If you're a subscriber, you get notified when I post. But that hasn't worked for some months. I'm happy too say we're back "in business." There several recents posts for you to check out—letters to The Developmentalist, new Words to Ponder, and the most recent, "Playing With and In." And please become...
Since 2016, I’ve been editor of a series of books—Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development—published by Palgrave Macmillan. I’m proud of the nine books I helped to get written and published. Every one of them has made important contributions within and across education, psychology, youth development and theatre/performance studies,...
