writingtothink
Thinking (some of the way) through Depoliticization and Social Bifurcation
I gave a talk recently-ish about my book. When invited a few months before the event I asked if I could also send along some work in...
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writingtothink
- Jul 20, 2022
- 16 min
Reflections on Dignity and Critical History
This is a presentation I gave last month, basically a thinkpiece I wrote to, uh, think - just trying to roll the rock up the hill for...
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writingtothink
- Jun 21, 2022
- 3 min
COVID-19 and the Violence of Employment
“I tie a scarf around my hair, then put my mask on. I mess with the mask less that way, so I’m not touching my face. I really don’t wanna...
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writingtothink
- Dec 1, 2021
- 2 min
A bit more self-promotion
My book's out in paperback now, so that's cool. As long as I'm posting about that, some similar stuff... as I mentioned before I was on...
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writingtothink
- Dec 1, 2021
- 5 min
Notes riffing on a few novels I read in November
The library in town’s doing this thing of trying to get adults to read more. They’ve done versions of them for kids for a while now. This...
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writingtothink
- Aug 13, 2021
- 4 min
Truth neutrality, character masks, heartache
Malaise continues. (Malaises continue?) I thought I'd write something just to write something. A friend recently said that many...
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writingtothink
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
rigged games, scapegoats
I could be wrong but I feel like there's a thing going on rhetorically right now with covid as follows. There's a big push for face to...
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writingtothink
- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
Self promotion continues!
The Organizing Work site kindly ran a thing I wrote about unions and whatnot (tl;dr, I like them! they're an activity more than a thing!...
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writingtothink
- Mar 29, 2021
- 1 min
Social mutilation, screaming, love, and reviews.
The Reel Abstractions podcast kindly read my book and had me on to talk about it. One of the hosts suggested that I should think of my...
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writingtothink
- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
post on streaming gigs, at ToM
"If I had to pick just one, I would say the particular micro-genre of song that most speaks to me is one that focuses on alcohol and...
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writingtothink
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
impressions on Rehmann's ideology book so far
I’m reading Jan Rehmann’s book on ideology. I like it a lot so far. A few impressions. I like his emphasis on Marx as doing critique of...
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writingtothink
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
notes on ideology and absence
notes on ideology and absence, thursday 3-11-21 I’m slowly reading Jan Rehmann’s book on ideology and I had a thought today I thought I’d...
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writingtothink
- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
notes on intelligence
I am writing this quickly to get in motion, pump-priming kind of writing, holding-space-for-writing kind of writing, and I am struggling...
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writingtothink
- Feb 15, 2021
- 6 min
This is your fault as an individual: depoliticizing distress
There’s an old joke that goes “the beatings will continue until morale improves.” The joke implies a setting where lack of morale is...
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writingtothink
- Feb 14, 2021
- 11 min
thoughts on Fisher's Capitalist Realism
I had intended to go through Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life talking about the concepts in it, particularly hauntology, but I made a...
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writingtothink
- Feb 5, 2021
- 9 min
Appreciating Mark Fisher’s Ghosts Of My Life
I bought some Mark Fisher books. I can’t remember exactly why. My memory seems to be degrading under the cognitive load of the job and...
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writingtothink
- Feb 3, 2021
- 10 min
These Days
Right around Halloween, a decade ago, a friend involved in the Legal Form blog asked if I’d write some thoughts on what I expected from...
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writingtothink
- Nov 27, 2020
- 3 min
Art and normative individualism
In my last post I wrote about Tony Smith’s point in Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism that Marx was a normative individualist insofar as Marx...
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writingtothink
- Nov 25, 2020
- 10 min
Notes on Marx, my book, narrative, normative individualism
The new condition of having written a book is an odd one in part in that I had inaccurate intuitions or unarticulated assumptions about...
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writingtothink
- Nov 23, 2020
- 4 min
Individual as social
I had a thought yesterday while on a run that I wanted to sketch out here. These are matters about which I am in over my head but...
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