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A Note on Open Access
I recently came across a text, Anxious Geographies: Worlds of Social Anxiety, that like far too many scholarly texts is far overpriced. The book is $180 and the eBook is $50. In grad school I often paid more than this for texts outside of required reading. I spent a small fortune researching my thesis. I …
A Note: Lose Your Career Building Skills as a Practice of Degrowth
Degrowth has blossomed into a lively topic. Depending on where you are hearing about it, you may or may not be influenced in positive ways. Well, this post is not an introduction to degrowth. Nor is it apologetics. This is intended to reach those already practicing, thinking about, researching, and applying degrowth to their lives …
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The Terebinth
I am a terebinth. I have always wished I were born an olive tree. Then I would have more immediate value for my neighbors. That is, if it weren’t for the blockade. I suppose my shade does offer rest. Of course, if I were an olive tree, Ahed would have never come into my life. …
Capitalism and Violence-Customs
There is the potential movement today for even the brightest types of democracies to normalize into a hybrid totalitarian, democracy-lite, formational violence. Of course, whether these institutions were ever true democracies to begin with should, must be questioned, but that historical mapping is beyond the scope of this present section, though not out of mind. …
A Memo on the Need for Intervention During this Ontological Crisis of Individualistic Capitalist Motivations
The world population wonders how people will continue to aspire to create great things and embark on great achievements without money. It is rather embarrassing to be a human when people express these narrow-minded thoughts. Why would human ambition and the desire to create vanish without the incentive of money? In a post-capitalist social economy, …
Rights and Responsibilities: Addressing Love and Violence in a Post-Capitalist World
Love is always wise: So I heard a voice, perhaps it was a bird, telling me. At first, this is offensively incorrect. It means rejecting all means of self-protection, all methods of self-preservation. This is not the world we live in. We live in a fraught world of assorted love where real psychological, financial, emotional, …
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Notes on Space and Place, Feminist Geography, and Related Texts
I. In Hortense J. Spillers essay, “Notes on an Alternative Model – Neither/Nor,” from Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, she surveys William Faulkner in a study of negation of the Other and gender. Spillers states, “[t]he exterior other in positive identity is, for Faulkner, a female, and in the …
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Complaint Memo: Star Trek and Climate Change – Ways to Improve
These are just a few short notes that I already made elsewhere. Given time I will elaborate on them more completely, perhaps even individually, but I thought I should post this memo here as well. In the Star Trek universe we learn in the Voyager episode, “Future’s End” (part 1), that most of Los Angeles …
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Memo: Desensitization to Violence in Fiction May Be a (Contemporary) “Evolutionary” Trait
“Evolution is blind and drink. It stumbles along through trial and error and emerges with a barely adequate excuse of a being.” – Dinal, from The Orville episode, “Mortality Paradox” I realize violence has always existed in fictional tales. This is nothing new. However, I would argue that physical violence of our current era in …
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Notes and rough drafts: When de Saints: African American Historicity and the Pursuit of Justice
I. Mishnah Qiddushin 3 outlines that a mamzer may achieve his freedom if his parents are sold into slavery and are then freed, freeing him into normalized relations with Jewish society with all the rights and privileges thereto. Here, through ancient subjugation one finds a pathway into privileged society. Emily A. Owens, in her article, …