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fumbling to situate public health in capitalism theoretically and in time
November 14, 2025
Sorry to be back again and so soon (you do have my full sympathies, reader - I find my assigned task of writing this stuff bad enough, your assigned task of...
Thoughts on Riley; Gilbert and Williams (in which I go on too long even for me, because quantity is job number one)
November 12, 2025
This one’s a monster, just close the tab and walk away. Still here? Really? [Deep sigh] Okay. Well, don’t say I didn’t warn you (and please do know that I am...
Speculations fumbling for a grasp of actually existing public health
November 9, 2025
As I’ve mentioned, I’m slowly (glacially, holy moly) reading around in the history of public health, mostly focused on the US. I’m doing this, obviously,...
Brief notes on Bristow’s American Pandemic plus my usual handwaving (social murder and memory-culture)
November 2, 2025
As an academic-leaning leftist/left-leaning academic who went to college in the late 90s and grad school in the mid 00s I had some formative experiences and...
further thoughts on recent rants
October 30, 2025
I was ranting on here the other day using Don Hamerquist’s discussion of ‘epistemological breaks’ as he uses the term (basically, people who inhabit forms of...
A letter on epistemological breaks, morality, and the current conjuncture
October 18, 2025
Dear comrades and fellow travelers, I wrote this to clarify my own thinking by the writing, and with the hope that it might spark a little conversation which...
Thoughts in response to Fairchild and Smillie
October 11, 2025
I continue to slowly make my way reading around in the history of public health (in the US mostly, at least so far), most recently Amy Fairchild’s book...
thoughts after reading Molina, Fit To Be Citizens
October 7, 2025
I just read Natalia Molina’s book Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1940 (hereafter “Fit...?”) and had some thoughts I thought...
letter on deportations
September 29, 2025
hi all,I assume most of you don’t live in Iowa. (Is there life in Iowa? The world may never know.) As such you may not have heard the news about the...
Random thoughts re: sense perception, experience, Hartman's book, etc
September 25, 2025
Couple three quick thoughts, probly lowering the already low standard. Sorry/not sorry/deeply sorry as existential condition. First off, I'm interested in...
More thoughts reading Rosen
September 22, 2025
Like a recurring bad dream - you’re in a waiting room, but why? it smells of sweat and damp, you just sit and hope your number gets called, you awake angry...
public health and real subsumption?
September 20, 2025
Once again I'm typing to find the rest of a thought that I can only see the top of - typing is digging carrots out of the dirt, basically. I'm currently...
lil update and link dump
September 17, 2025
Greetings frenemies, I hope you're getting what you deserve (you know what you are!). In addition, I thought I'd send you an Open Mode post, a fate no one...
Letter to Long Haul in reply to Paul Buhle
September 2, 2025
I’m excited about the recent publication Long Haul (https://longhaulmag.com/about/) which describes itself as a "quarterly magazine of worker writing about...
moral agnowhatsits and aesthetic somethingsomething?
August 14, 2025
Some thoughts at the confluence (shaken loose by the resonance?) of a couple three strands of my interests... I feel like I’ve only really dipped a toe into...
Situating concrete aspects of social murder and response to it within capital's circuits
August 2, 2025
I want to try something. Specifically, I want to try to situate harms generated by capitalist society, and more specifically, means of responding to those...
The Future of Revolution, book review and response
July 16, 2025
You should read Jasper Bernes’s recent book The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising. In what...
Marxism is good for you, eat your vegetables
July 8, 2025
Hello good people! And the rest of you!I hope you’re all maintaining. I’m feeling careworn myself. (I relate to some of the title track to the newest...
Moral economy struggles once again
June 22, 2025
Hey gang, I hope you’re hanging in. Apparently the US is bombing Iran now. Add another atrocity to the long list I guess. Fuck. I was in a bad mood before...
ranting about how shit's fucked, Brecht and big feelings, plus some recs and self promotion
June 14, 2025
hey everyone, I hope you’re maintaining in the dumpster fire. Feels like shit’s real fucked right now. I’m finding it hard to keep that thought in my head...
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