Critical Thinking
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Memo: Availability as an Indicator of Post-Capitalism
First world culture-benefits live within a paradox of being both hyper-capitalist while also demonstrating post-capitalist values through all that remains in touch, in availability. Abolishing capitalism if often mistakenly imagined...
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Lesia Kulchynska: The Lure of War video essay
What Lesia Kulchynska discusses about the gig economy in warfare and terrorism has an obvious positive correlation with commodity fetishism. She demonstrates public anger is not what brings revolutions anymore...
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This is not a good time to start writing a new book
This is not a good time to start writing a new book. You have already invested so much time and resources on the book you were already writing. Now, with...
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(cross-posting) Note: Continuing humanities teaching and research after the discontinuation of grants
I do not think individual humanities work needs to stop with the removal of grants. Yes, clearly communities and community culture will be hurt. However, individuals can continue privately, to...
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Another Note: On the Theory of Monetized Empathy
I was reading “The Dialectics of Ecology and Ecological Civilization” (Requires a subscription at the time of this post, but will be public next week) and the author cites Global...
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Note: Idealism in an Era of Consequences
Attempting to maintain a frame of optimistic idealism seems rather heroic in this age of absolute consequences. It is not that the idea of contemplating utopia serves only as denialism...
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Note: Capitalist Evangelism
Those traditionally oppressed by capitalism just want to navigate to a system where they can be capitalists themselves. It is evangelism in it sharpest form. Segments of the population seem...
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Collective Ethical Patience and Problem Solving in a Capitalist Society (Part I)
It can at times be very difficult to retain an ethical view of the world when the wealthy and privileged, on both the left and the right, are open when...
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Note on a Completed Project: Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” (Parts I-III)
I recently completed a three-part series over at scifi.global on Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory”. It is completely based on a single paper that he wrote. I have...
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Short Memo: (Expanding a repost) – Considerations for Seeing an Unseen God
I miss praying. It was very centering. Very calming. But I now follow a God who has never been seen or written about. Any attempt to create a spoken prayer...