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Contra ADL
December 29, 2023
The ADL is widely recognized as an authority on racism and extremism. A closer look at its history and current activities betray its own racist and authoritarian agenda.
"Why I Just Quit the DSA": A Measured Response
December 1, 2023
The pro-Israeli "left" is not immune to trafficking in conspiracy theories about outside agitators.
Two Styles of Cold War History
October 27, 2023
A critical review of "Reds" by Ted Morgan and "The CIA in Guatemala" by Richard H. Immerman
The Ambiguous Men of Christopher Nolan
October 6, 2023
Misery is compulsory for history-makers.
The New Blood Libel
August 25, 2023
The ancient origins of the anti-trans groomer panic.
Baba Yaga: The Liner Notes
July 31, 2023
A new BARGEIST album is now available on Bandcamp
The Phantom of the Celluloid
June 16, 2023
Recordings as metaphorical ghosts
Book Review: Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter
June 9, 2023
A riot’s aftermath. In 2019, HBO put out a new Watchmen show that introduced many Americans to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. More than a century ago,...
The Far-Right's Love Affair with Vladimir Putin
June 2, 2023
Why and How Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson Promote Russian Propaganda
The Meaning of "Law and Order"
May 17, 2023
The reaction to Daniel Penny killing Jordan Neely shows that the only law and order invoked by this phrase is white supremacy and class domination.
EUNUCH MAKER: the Liner Notes
May 4, 2023
You can listen to and download EUNUCH MAKER here. I get like 200 free downloads a month, so go crazy. After that I will charge as little as Bandcamp permits....
On the Meaninglessness of the Word "Terrorism"
April 28, 2023
How states use the cover of security concerns to crush dissent
Book Review: The Witch-Hunt by FG Bailey
April 21, 2023
You could say I’ve been on a history-of-witch-hunts kick lately, which largely began out of my attempts to understand the political moment of Donald Trump’s...
All Hail Techno-Baphomet!
April 14, 2023
Symbolic and aesthetic counter-measures to Christian transphobia
Beneath the Spiral
April 7, 2023
Absurdism and the Psychology of Fear in Junji Ito
THE WHALE and the Emancipatory Politics of Body Horror
March 31, 2023
If THE WHALE is a work of body horror, it contains the seeds of new becomings.
Noise Music, Dissolution, and Disunity with the Divine
March 20, 2023
A Theory of Disorder in Music
INVENTED ORGANS
December 16, 2022
An introduction
Introducing Invented Organs
December 16, 2022
This is Invented Organs, a repository for short and long essays about the intersection between philosophy, politics, music, literature, film, and more....
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