Spirituality and obstinacy?
Having heard the comment from someone the closest to me that I am intolerant in regards to hearing other points of view about "spirituality" (I hope I get the argument right), I take the time to...
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The Privileges of Ethnocentricity
Traveling with colleagues recently to Tokyo to complete a time-sensitive project, we were many from around the world to bring months of work alive. Despite the high level of stress came with it too a...
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Internet-inspired innovation in gardening
It was after seeing a TED speech, or whatever you call those bizarre marketing rants, on the concept of Windowfarms that my better half and I decided to embark on our own creation. The idea of a...
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Chair suddenly loses his smile
We all had a good laugh at the ludicrous Obama stand-in, Chair, during Clint Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention. A pitiful reminder of age's creeping advance, Eastwood tries in...
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Solitude in the Age of Instaneity
In an earlier post on Twitter and the Arab spring, we highlighted a newly identified social phenomenon whereby the constant online publications of ones every state of being (running, weight,...
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Paris Lectures I: Lessons in Sexual Difference
I have to admit to wanting to trace back a few different events over the course of my life over this blog as they inform our perspective today and just another part of this question of rendering public...
View ArticleHow to live together? Contemporanteity
Before the official translation of Barthes' Comment Vivre Ensemble? is finally released, my pre-order endlessly delayed, I take a moment to transcribe and translate one lovely insight from the audio...
View ArticleThings like propulsion and power, space debris removal, and humans humans in...
NASA Holds Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium Nov. 14-15 with video-conferencing! Will be nice to pretend to be a rocket scientist for a couple of days.
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Paris Lectures II: a quick pee with Derrida
To return a bit to those Collège International de la Philosophie lectures about 8 or 9 years ago in Paris, most often alone, in pursuit of some sort of intellectual experience from this time living...
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what a nuclear-free world might look like. . .
Electrical efficiency and Greenpeace - SuisseAfter reading the list of changes proposed by the Electrical Efficiency Initiative, changes we have been familiar on a personal level with for a while,...
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The Waning Art Of The Projectionist : The Picture Show : NPR
Having worked as a cinema projectionist for something like 10 years between the ages of around 17 to 27 throughout my protracted university education eventually joining the IATSE Projectionist...
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Corporate self-help
I don't know about you but the troubles and travails of work life brings with it frequent self-questioning: Is this what I really want to be doing? Am I up to the task? Maybe it's me, but never...
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The places we've been
I recall reading recently that in a future in which peak oil is finally acknowledged as a real limit and precious, finite resources not trusted to the market alone, the proper allotment of air travel...
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End of year Facebook-free time for reflection
BBC News - My web detoxLet it be known that today marks the beginning of three glorious weeks of holiday. For private circumstances (I will speak about when they want themselves to be rendered...
View Article2012 Reading List: a year of Mythology and plenty of Anglo-American...
Here we are, reading over 2012 in retrospect, an artificial and arbitrary cutting up of a larger list or, dare we say, project in order to properly archive this year's ambitions.We note this list only...
View ArticleHappy New Year 2013: From this Moment On!
Dear Readers,Rendered Public takes a moment to wish a very Happy New Year to you all. Last year was filled with more than a few doubts about life and work in Switzerland, but at the end, the stay at...
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Rendered Public - all cards on the table.
A rather self-referential posting to think through the direction this blog might take over this year. Over the course of 2012, we saw a small increase in writing, taking us through subjects on...
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Valorizing, Responsibilizing.
For those living in Lausanne or the canton of Vaud at large, the last couple of weeks have included at one moment or another the glorious task of transferring of trash from one type of garbage bag to...
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Waking up!
Let me invite you into my bedroom for a moment where you will meet not Philip, nor my dear Filippo, but the Philips 4500 series. But alas, Philips Corporation this will not be a raving product review...
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Waking and Sleeping at the same time.
The trouble started one night during my stay at Plum Village meditation retreat after an evening group meditation, and finding myself, tossing all night--as if I'd decided to pop back a double espresso...
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