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thinking out loud at tedious length (naturally) about capitalism and crisis (again, still)
October 1, 2023
The pandemic isn't just a biological event, it's a political event, the social mediates the biological, as Abby put it someplace, it's a set of social...
'vulnerability is disqualifying'
September 30, 2023
For a while now I've been saying something like 'vulnerability is disqualifying' and while I still think it's a good shorthand, I wanted to think this...
Pyramids, dynamism, surplus population
September 28, 2023
The Industrial Workers of the World famously depicted capitalism as a pyramid (google “pyramid of capitalist society”) with the working class at the bottom....
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...
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