Magic Circles never Close

Johan Huizinga’s 'Magic Circle' & Harry Frankfurt’s Care: Fragments Before Midnight (and then the day after): Birds, Dogs, 'On Bullshit', John Berger & Elizabeth Bishop

I write every other Wednesday to personalize and explore the navigational approach and it will be midnight soon so I am sitting to share what comes, fragments from today, a day which started with an intense (beautiful) conversation (which you can listen to on Love & Philosophy if you wish, coming this summer) with collaborators Johannes Jaeger and Marcus Neustetter. The day ended in a night class with the Strother School of Radical Attention, which I highly recommend and where I will be teaching this summer. The only break I took today between work, classes and meetings was to walk out to the tidal waters between Jersey and Manhattan to see if I could spot some birds. There is a mass migration coming through New York (the city happens to be right in the midst of the Atlantic Flyway). I am a novice birder but I was thrilled to see a couple of extremely cute yellow-crowned night herons (I offer a terrible photo from my phone below and another closer one at the end) as well as many song birds that I will…