In the past few years, I have been writing, rewriting, sampling, recording, and performing live in multiple contexts what I term "philosophical tantrums." As part of my border strategy of recycling and "multicontextuality," I have presented them in performance festivals (as part of larger performances), as keynote speeches, as weird "sermons" (in dialogue with Reverend Billy, Reverend Derek from Pittsburgh, and farmworker and labor organizer Valdemar Velazquez), as performative devices to

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... r discussion in the classroom, and on various podcasts and radio programs. If I were to find a common thread in these philosophical tantrums, it's my attempt to articulate my obsessive search for political hope, artistic meaning, and a radical spirituality against a backdrop of war, a broken economy, and an acute crisis of global identity. Here's one of my