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Experts in the common good

September 27, 2023

Capitalism generates catastrophes and conflicts, and often those work to sustain rather than undermine the system. (Theodor Adorno says somewhere that...

Capitalism and Catastrophe/Emergency/Crisis

September 25, 2023

Covid’s a catastrophe and the policy response is a clusterfuck, one that serves as feedback loop through which catastrophe intensifies itself. Catastrophe...

two quick thoughts

September 23, 2023

Two quick (gotta stop saying that!) thoughts I wanted to capture on this fine fall-feeling saturday afternoon. One, Max Harris sent me a note (hi Max! and...

Facilitative bloodlessness/laundering violence

September 22, 2023

Some more covid zero zealot marxist (CZ2M) thoughts real quick (eh, I mean, I hope, I’m tryna get in a run by the river today, plus I got more email to...

Unpicking a mistake about social and moral imagination; notes toward a theory of covid minimizers as appallingly ordinary

September 22, 2023

Getting started on my covid zero zealot marxist agenda (CZ2M)... Throat cleared I hereby undertake a third beginning for this blog, this one intended as more...

The answer to the question no one has been asking - why "open mode"?

September 22, 2023

I thought I’d jot down some thoughts on why this thing’s called ‘open mode,’ if nothing else as a throat clearing exercise. First off, I miss blogging. I did...

why I set this up

September 14, 2023

I set this up because I want to think more in a general style of thinking that’s allowed to be open-ended and which is serious in the sense of highly...