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The Professional Managerial Class
The PMC critique is something that sounded intriguing to me at first, and I do think Barbara Ehrenreich’s intentions in identifying this...
Jonathan Cobb
May 144 min read
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Logos and Liberation
Proud to announce my new book, available through Amazon and other major distributors.
Jonathan Cobb
Aug 23, 20244 min read
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Liberation and Apocalypse
As far back I can remember, I have always been a seeker. Whether it was animism or Wicca or Buddhism or Kabbalah, I was always in search...
Jonathan Cobb
Jan 10, 20249 min read
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Solidarity
Standing in solidarity with the oppressed requires that we hold certain contradictions within us.
Jonathan Cobb
Oct 24, 202313 min read
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Anathema and Absolution
We are fallen creatures, and none of us makes it through this life without doing harm to others.
Jonathan Cobb
Sep 17, 202310 min read
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The Smartest Guys in the Room
As our civilization spirals toward self-destruction, our would-be tech saviors are looting everything from under our noses.
Jonathan Cobb
Aug 15, 202322 min read
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In Memoriam
Ten years gone by
Jonathan Cobb
Apr 21, 20232 min read
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The Matter With Neuro-Sophistry
The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist has a fascinating premise - that we as a culture have become overly rationalistic,...
Jonathan Cobb
Mar 24, 20238 min read
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Logos
A widespread upheaval took place in a remarkable time period known as the Axial Age. In the space of a couple centuries, religious...
Jonathan Cobb
Sep 23, 202125 min read
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Technics
Technology is so pervasive in our society that it is the primary metric by which we tend to measure other cultures of past and present....
Jonathan Cobb
Aug 2, 202124 min read
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Consciousness
A type of eschatology has emerged in the modern world that sees hope in the evolution of consciousness. This idea stems from German...
Jonathan Cobb
Jul 31, 202118 min read
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City and Community
Human beings are social creatures. The species Homo sapiens sapiens survived these past 150,000 years not by strength, stamina, or...
Jonathan Cobb
Jul 28, 202129 min read
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Genesis
In the beginning was creation. First there was existence created out of nothing, then form out of the formless void, then light and...
Jonathan Cobb
Jun 24, 202112 min read
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Pedagogical Society
The world today is dominated by capital. The logic of capital accumulation drives all manner of social institutions, including those that...
Jonathan Cobb
Jun 2, 20216 min read
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Power and Civilization
One area where I differ from Marxists and much of the left in general is that I believe liberation requires an analysis that goes deeper...
Jonathan Cobb
May 31, 20216 min read
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Welcome to my blog
So, I'm giving blogging another try. My usual modes of intellectual output are "social media hot take" or "working on a book I never seem...
Jonathan Cobb
May 27, 20211 min read
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