a bleak, bleak post mortem of the 2024 election
scientists should respond to Trump’s destruction with construction
the dog catchers of the empire
on simplicity and complexity
notes for a book review of “Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education”
2024
why use the perfectly good word “jargon” when you could use “argot” instead?
notes on things we’re seeing, reading, and thinking about
footnote #23 from David Graeber and David Wengrow, “The Dawn of Everything”
nobody talks about imposter syndrome quite right
it’s not the identity, it’s the politics
on how very bad writing can be very very good
the virtue of the vanity press
reading some of the original Luddite writings to find out
Media theory, media archaeology, and media ecology
Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Republic
does the question even make sense?
short post on the techno-animism of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Pittsburgh, New York, San Francisco
art, science, religion, and the university
on how to take notes, and why
Notes for a never-delivered graduation speech
and its political consequences
some recent reading
Anna Tsing’s “Mushroom at the End of the World” and other books
reading notes on Mille Plateaux and L’Anti-Œdipe
on student activism
brief comments on the Columbia University occupation
obituary for Corinna Snyder
A note for the 6-month anniversary of the Oct 7th attacks
how universities reproduce the dominant ideology
retronaissance, fanticipation, etc.
on the work of computer programmer and interface designer Bret Victor
thinking about why LLMs feel so troubling to use
what it is, what it should be
poetry, and what makes it so
what “politics” means in an everyday context
statsplain, zeitvibe, etc.
what academic conferences are, and what they ought to be
further miscellaneous notes
miscellaneous notes
what news is, what it does