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writingtothink

Jul 20, 202213 min read

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, 202216 min read

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, 20223 min read

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, 20212 min read

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, 20215 min read

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, 20214 min read

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, 20213 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20213 min read

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, 20212 min read

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, 20212 min read

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, 20216 min read

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, 202111 min read

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, 20219 min read

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, 202110 min read

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, 20203 min read

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, 202010 min read

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, 20204 min read

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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