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Kettell and Kerr continued
October 17, 2023
I put up some notes on an article by Kettell and Kerr last time (https://buttondown.email/nateholdren/archive/depoliticization/). Here are the rest of my...
depoliticization
October 15, 2023
I’ve slowed down on my little blog because my semester’s gotten in full swing so I’ve less time and attention and am also just more tired, and nightmarish...
Brecht and some scraps
October 13, 2023
Hey everybody, I tried to write tonight and it felt more like an object lesson in inadequacy the more I typed so I decided abandon it and just send a link to...
a note on determinism and conflict
October 11, 2023
To a significant degree I think it was a foregone conclusion that covid and the social and political management of the pandemic was going to bring about lots...
something liberal egalitarians something something moral economies
October 5, 2023
By the way, I noticed the formatting was all fucked up in this post - https://buttondown.email/nateholdren/archive/facilitative-bloodlessnesslaundering-...
open marxism excerpts link
October 2, 2023
I’ve mentioned on here that I think the Open Marxism tradition has important insights on how to think about capitalist society, the capitalist state, and how...
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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