William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompson, Columnist, Thinking Otherwise
William Irwin Thompson (born July, 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but he has also been writing and publishing poetry throughout his career and received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986. He has made significant contributions to cultural history, social criticism, the philosophy of science, and the study of myth. He describes his writing and speaking style as “mind-jazz on ancient texts”. He is an astute reader of science, social science, history, and literature. He is the founder of the Lindisfarne Association.
His book, Still Travels: Three Long Poems was published in 2009 by Wild River Books. To order a copy, click here: STILL TRAVELS.
WEBSITE: http://www.williamirwinthompson.org/
ALL ARTICLES BY WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON:
BOOK REVIEW: LOCUS AMOENUS by Victoria Alexander
COLUMN – BOOK REVIEW – THINKING OTHERWISE – ON TURKEY: Anatolian Days and Nights
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE: Avatar – When Technology Displaces Culture
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE: Child Abuse and the Catholic Church
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE: Part 1 – The Shift from Industrial to a Planetary Civilization
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE: Part 2 – The Shift from an Industrial to Planetary Civilization
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – AND THE VOTES ARE IN: The American Elections of 2010
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – From Religion to Post-Religious Spirituality: Conclusion
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – January 6, 2011 – Part Two: The Etherealization of Capitalism
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – Nature and Invisible Environments
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – Of Culture and the Nature of Extinction
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – On Religion – Part One
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – On Religion and Nationalism: Ireland, Israel, and Palestine
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – Technical Hubris: and the Sinkhole of Obama’s Centrism
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – Television and Social Class
COLUMN – Thinking Otherwise – THANKSGIVING DAY, 2010: THE USES AND ABUSES OF HISTORY
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – The Digital Economy of W. Brian Arthur
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – The Elections of 2010
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE – Thoughts on My new Kindle App: on My Mac ipad
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE: From Religion to Post-Religious Spirituality, Part Three
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE: From Shamanism to Religion, Part Two
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE: On Transnational Military Interventions
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE: A Pagan Ur-Text of the Lebor Gebála Érenn
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE: On Nuclear Power
COLUMN – THINKING OTHERWISE: St. David’s Day, 2011, Technology and Social Change
COLUMN: LINDISFARNE CAFE – MEMOIR – Farewell Address at the Lindisfarne Fellows Conference
COLUMN: LINDISFARNE CAFE – MEMOIR – With Gregory Bateson’s Mind in Nature
CULTURE – MEMOIR – Pilgrimage to Lindisfarne: 1972
CULTURE – MEMOIR – Sex and the Commune
CULTURE – MEMOIR – The Founding of the Lindisfarne Association in New York, 1971-73 – Part I
LINDISARNE CAFE – MEMOIR – Conclusion: The Economic Relevance of Lindisfarne
LINDISFARNE CAFE – Memoir – My Dinner with Andre Gregory: Lindisfarne-in-Manhattan, 1977-1979
LINDISFARNE CAFE – MEMOIR: Raising Evan and Hilary: Reflections of a Homeschooling Parent
LINDISFARNE CAFE – THINKING OTHERWISE: The Big Picture, II
POETRY – A Lazy Sunday Afternoon
POETRY – After Heart Surgery: Hokusai’s Great Wave
POETRY – Nancy Grayson’s Bookstore
POETRY – On Reading “The Penguin Book of English Verse”: on my iPad and Exercise Bike
THINKING OTHERWISE – Saint Patrick’s Day, 2010: US AND THEM: Identity and the State
THINKING OTHERWISE – Bedtime Story for a Civilization
WILD RIVER BOOKS/POETRY – NIGHTWATCH and DAYSHIFT: CÉZANNE
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