Steven Pavlos Holmes, Ph.D.

As McDonough would say, there shouldn’t be any “end users” – that telos shouldn’t be hard wired into all of our thinking, and all of our activities and processes and institutions and economy – Things shouldn’t end – they should flow back into the swirl of life, the web, the world, ecology, sociability – moving … More END USER

Most primaly, mothers and caregivers, then siblings and the objects of home, teachers and lovers, works and days – all caring for you

The kings and the queens – and now the rich and famous, the industrial moguls and the tech giants, the CEOs and the hedge fund managers, the models and the stars, the celebrities and the influencers, the heroes and the enemies, etc. – are the present-day, in-person and on-the-horizon, real and relatable gods and goddesses … More How culture works

It’s all Neanderthal. ***** Men, I mean – for me, white European and Euro/Ural-Altaic men, and the cultures we’ve extracted and extruded. Primitive. (With a lot of subsequent Medieval thrown in, and Scandinavian, of course; also primitive, in their different ways.) For Asian men it’s perhaps the inheritance from the Denisovans … also progenitors of … More It’s all Neanderthal

NEANDERTHAL

Neanderthal.

It feels like that’s one of the places we in my family come from – both from Mom’s actual inheritance, and Fred’s frontier intellectual-socialist leanings, coming of age in the ‘50s