I’d love to playtest!

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Words as Windows Reading, writing, and the Zen paradox

Honored to have contributed an op-ed in @tricyclemag.bsky.social: tricycle.org/article/read...

This site is awesome. I've been wanting to move away from goodreads for a while. Thanks!

‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

A reminder that there's a Black-woman owned site you can use to track the books you've read and want to read, in case you want to leave that *other* site.

#BookSky
#AmReading
#BlackBookSky
#StoryGraph

Vera Janacopoulos, by Jan Engelman (1932)

One great thing about AI is that I can now share with my anglophone colleagues my favorite Dutch-language poems. Here is Herman Gorter, the poet of light and silence. Marvelous Dutch stylist.

American Zen Retold How koans and autobiographical narratives reveal the evolution of Zen practice in America

"But the best thing I can say about Van Overmeire’s book—and for me, this is high praise—is that it will send me back to read these books again, or in a few cases, for the first time. His insightful survey gives them a fresh feel and paints a vivid portrait of Zen practice today." bit.ly/4k5GyyQ

Au Royaume-Uni, les universités sacrifiées sur l’autel de la rentabilité : « Elles se sont muées en fournisseurs de prestations éducatives » Les établissements ont accentué l’approche entrepreneuriale de l’enseignement supérieur mise en place par les conservateurs à partir de 2010. Des départements entiers et des postes d’enseignants-cherc...

via Julie Zaugg @lemonde.fr

Au Royaume-Uni, les universités sacrifiées sur l’autel de la rentabilité : « Elles se sont muées en fournisseurs de prestations éducatives »

Des départements entiers et des postes d’enseignants-chercheurs sont supprimés.

www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

How Japanese anime draws on religious traditions to explore themes of destiny, sacrifice and the struggle between desire and duty ‘Demon Slayer: Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.

Japanese #anime like the film "Demon Slayer" blends thrilling action with deep spiritual themes, drawing on Buddhist, Shinto, and samurai traditions to explore fate, sacrifice, and moral struggles. A philosophy and religious studies professor explains: buff.ly/2oK5vbM #religion #philosophy

Welcome to Despair

Essential reading for educators today: thepenngazette.com/welcome-to-d.... Justin McDaniel's approach has long informed my own thinking on higher education in the age of AI. What if we used the institutional presence of the university to restrain student access to technology to free their mind?

Night walk in China. Parks are magical here.

Reading Kuttner's Fury, a strangely prescient (although I hope not too much) novel from the 1950s.

First publication in a philosophy journal and first publication on the new space project! If you're interested in Zen in space or in the Three Body problem, check it out. If you don't have access, PM me for pdf! brill.com/.../jour.../...

Join us at CC6D for a discussion of translation across different religions! #sblaar24

Thanks again for the picture and all your support Andy!

For those of you at #aarsbl24, please consider attending the panel I'm doing today. I'll be presenting on The Expanse and Mystical visions in Outer Space

Love it! Looks easy but could be used in classes introducing religion.

At the #aarsbl24!

Full house for the first panel of the science fiction unit on teaching religion through science fiction!

😍

So proud to find my book at #SBLAAR24!

Lucky you. I woke up at 1:30…

Author's Corner with Ben Van Overmeire, author of AMERICAN KOAN <p>Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with Ben Van Overmeire, author of <em>American Koan: Imagining Zen and Self in Autobiographical L

Virginia University Press published a short interview with me about my book American Koan. If you're interested, you can also use their website to pre-order the book. Check it out! upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

You'll notice that the first two models are inspired by (Watts's interpretation of) Christianity, and the second 2 are inspired by Watts' readings of Asian religions. To stimulate the audience's imagination, I asked Bing AI to generate images for each of them. Some results are below.

Third is the organic model, where humans grow out of the universe like apples grow on an apple tree. Fourth is the dramatic model, where our lives are just roles we play, endlessly.

First is the ceramic model, where God creates humans and humans are forever separate from God. Second is the fully automatic model, where there is no god, the universe is a mechanism, and humans are a byproduct of that mechanism.

So I'm preparing for a conference talk on the modern Buddhist thinker Alan Watts, who I've been occupied with lately. Watts outlines 4 ways of thinking about the cosmos, 2 not great, 2 better.

Genderongelijkheid en 'yolo-generatie' leiden tot babycrisis in Zuid-Korea Het geboortecijfer in Zuid-Korea is niet alleen extreem laag door hoge kosten en genderongelijkheid. Ook de zogenoemde 'yolo-generatie' speelt een rol, zeggen experts tegen persbureau Reuters. De autoriteiten zijn zeer bezorgd over het dalende geboortecijfer.

Wat ze bedoelen is dat vrouwen kiezen voor een eigen carrière en zelfontplooiing. Voor mannen was dat altijd al heel normaal, met steun van hun vrouwen. Maar die hebben daar dus geen zin meer in.
Met je YOLO generatie.

Featured Faculty: Ben Van Overmeire - CSCC | Duke Kunshan University Dr.  Ben Van Overmeire is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at DKU. Prof. Van Overmeire has been a dynamic force within the CSCC, co-leading the

Honored to be Featured Faculty on DKU's Center for the Study of Contemporary China's website. Read on for my thoughts on Zen, autobiography, and Buddhism in space! www.dukekunshan.edu.cn/cscc/feature...