Biographical summary: |
I'm a Promethean philosopher,
writer, creative dissident and artistic dilettante with a wide variety
of interests. I'm model agnostic in the sense of Robert Anton Wilson,
a philosopher of the future in the wake of Nietzsche, and a gadfly
following
the
example
of Socrates, likewise quite ignorant in cosmic terms. (I only lay
claim to some inkling about the world of human beings,
an intricate enough universe to understand.)
Any special insight I have I would credit
to the following:
• remarkable predecessors
• exposure to
certain igniting experiences during my development
• affection for
originality
and
some stubbornness to resist conformity
• maintaining confidence
in my abilities
• passion for the aims more than the letter of my
beliefs
• determination to keep an open mind and cross-pollinate
ideas
• having an insatiable
appetite for a mental vocabulary of useful models of many kinds
• staying flexible
and agile enough to adjust models I use to interpret the
world
• remaining
willing to question myself and change my mind
• a willingness
to do more with limited
knowledge
rather
than drowning
myself in a litter of information and quasi-education.
I have published a printed anthology, Rising
in Words. I am also writing a novel dystopian
novel entitled Pyramid of Babel for print. My more notable
e-published projects thus
far include The
Promethean Trilogy, Self-Expression,
Promethean
Capitalism, Fighting
Future War, Critiques
of Democracy, The
Renewing Dissident’s Notebook of Antipolitics, Autopoiesis and
other Forethoughts,
The
Foundation of Prometheanism and Important
Principles of Prometheanism.
Some of my most important future
projects include thorough critical examination of philosophical
errors and their ramifications, and contribution to fundamental
reformation of philosophy, but I most enjoy The
Way of Prometheus.
I currently live and work in west Philadelphia,
PA, where I relish both experimental and comfortable living and relationships.
I try to explore and live Prometheanism as well as compose and write
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Background summary:
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I was born and grew
up in Reading, Pennsylvania. During my youth I attended
Antietam School District in Reading, PA (a lousy, lax public school),
The Hill School in Pottstown, PA (a stuffy, competitive prep school),
and the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, which was said to "teach
you how to think" rather than what to think,
a claim which was to some fortunate extent accurate.
I continue to carry out creative work of my own
and pursue studies independently (as I always have). Having excepted
myself from the academic
system
and beholden means of support, I can say what I want, and conduct
whatever intellectual work I see fit in the time I can afford, and
may integrate art and science and any subjects I please.
To support my real work I have done design consulting
(Web, GUI, graphic, multimedia), writing, editing, research and more,
for private employers and scientific institutions.
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Promethean name: |
Phoenix |
Given name:
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Colin Patrick Barth
(friends call me Colin familiarly, although I care more for
chosen names like Phoenix)
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Portrait:
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Some personal heroes
and/or influences:
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Friedrich Nietzsche,
George Orwell, Claude Monet, cEvin Key, Crazy Horse, David Mack,
Louis
Sullivan,
Akira Kurosawa, William Blake, Socrates, Wilfred Owen, Robert Anton
Wilson, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Paul
Friedrich, Murray Rothbard, Daniel Dennett, Gustave de Molinari,
Bill Hicks, et al.
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Some orthodoxies, models and static
ideologies I have received, surpassed and synthesized into my thinking: |
altruism, Americanism, anarchism,
atheism, atomism,
classicism, conservatism, constitutionalism, corporatism, culturalism,
egoism, empiricism, environmentalism,
hedonism, holism, intellectualism,
libertarianism, materialism, militarism, monogamy,
moralism, nationalism, Objectivism,
originality, Platonism,
psychologism, rationalism, republicanism, scientism, semantics, statism,
technologism, traditionalism, et cetera... |
Interests, activities,
areas of research or expertise:
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aesthetics, amoralism,
anarchism, anthropology, archaeology, artistic media, autopoiesis,
autopoietic systems, civilization,
complexity theory, cooking, cosmopolitanism, creativity, cuisines,
dark aesthetics, dissent, dystopian narrative, electronic
music, emergent properties,
fantasy, free-market capitalism, graphic
design, history, human action economics,
human potential, humanism,
individual
freedom, individualism, individuality, libertarianism,
military theory,
model
agnosticism, mythology,
Nietzschean thought, personal development, personality
theory, personality theory, perspectivism, philosophy,
political science, polygamy,
psychology, psychosomatic analysis, questioning
things, sexuality,
science fiction,
social thought, sociology,
spontaneous order, storytelling, strategic and tactical studies,
subjectivity, synthesis, systems
theory, Web and GUI design, writing,
world
events, et cetera...
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Other subjects of
interest, pastimes, and hobbies:
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anything thought-provoking,
art history, artificial
intelligence, astronomy, cinema, classic movies,
classical studies,
club nights, documentary tv, game design,
geography, graphic
novels, hedonism, hiking, immunology, Japanese culture, minimalism,
multimedia, museums, mysticism,
nature, physics, poetry, teas, travel, video games, et cetera...
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Also see:
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My membership
section at
Prometheanmovement.org
My personal web journal, Wisdom Dancer
People I would like to thank |
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