EXCERPT Leisure: The Basis of Culture

2025-03-02Josef Pieper

"A functionary is trained. Training is defined as being concerned with some one side or aspect of man, with regard to some special subject. Education concerns the whole man; an educated man is a man with a point of view from which he takes in the whole world. Education concerns the whole man, man capax universi, capable of grasping the totality of existing things... can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workday existence?"

Why another Blog?

2025-03-01Brandon Dunegan

Brandon... Do you really need a blog?

My name is Brandon Dunegan and this—as you’ve likely noticed—is my personal website. I designed this website from scratch to fill a niche which I have not seen done before: the exploration of the intersection of technology and philosophy and discovery of how best we should go about interacting with our ever-changing world.

Professional Development meets Philisophical Development

The "Resume" section of this website is dedicated to professional development and technical projects I have worked on. It is the page for the artes servile- to borrow the term used by Josef Pieper.

This page, the "Blog", is then used correspondingly to contain thoughts and ideas related to the more metaphysical world- the artes liberales. This is the section of the site where my thoughts on the ways we, people as a cultural entity, interact with technology. The "Blog" may contain full or fragmented writings of mine, ideas on current culture or technology, or meerly quotes from people I am currently reading!

I hope that by reading this, you choose to follow my progressive journey to beterment and in the best case, see something here which inspires you to continue the conversation.