My Year in Reading, 2025
Challenging stale histories through fresh narratives, and how new worlds are formed.
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A commonplace book, digital garden, blog, all or none of the above—this is a space to share (and amend) my recent thoughts and preoccupations. To peruse non-chronologically, check out categories or taxonomies.
2026
2025
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The Maximal Minimalism of Terry Riley’s Shri Camel
Terry Riley’s music strains boundaries and calls forth a sense of multitudinousness.
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My Year in Reading, 2024
A tour through the Social Novel, Victorian(-ish) literature, and Weimar Autumn.
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2024
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New Site Design for 2024
A new redesign of this site using Deno Lume, plus some fun server(less) interactions.
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My Year in Reading, 2023
From the nested puzzles of a Parisian flat to the utopian vistas of a terraformed Mars.
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2023
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Airtable Reading Tracker: The Front-end
Building a dynamic front-end website for an Airtable reading tracker using the Deno Fresh server-side rendering framework.
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Airtable Reading Tracker: The Back-end
Using Airtable as a back-end to build out a custom reading tracker app.
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Imagining the Ideal Reading Tracker App
An effective reading tracker would not only provide a chronological list of titles read, but would uncover the manifold associations of influence and interest that are constantly being formed from the books I read.
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The Three Stages of Capitalist Space
Thinking through the contradictions and cognitive terrain of postmodernism with Fredric Jameson.
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The Christ of Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis’ towering literary output reflects a lifelong effort to articulate both spiritual and political radicalisms—embodied in the figure of Christ.
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Mapping Meteorites
Playing around with the Mapbox GL JS API and plotting observed meteorite falls.
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2022
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Acting Like an Ancestor
Combating the racial and ecological damage of capitalism through a long-term revolutionary patience.
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2021
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The Age of Extremes
As tempting as it is to fantasize on what could have been, the historian’s task, Hobsbawm quips, is to analyze what was.
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The Tricontinental Conference & Latin American Liberationist Christianity
A working paper on Christian anti-imperialism from the Global South, presented at the Toronto Christian Left Conference.
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Spiritual Mergers & Acquisitions
Does Christianity truly constitute an “alternative spirit” to capitalism?
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Marxist Criticism and Christian Apophaticism
Exploring a dialectical bridge between the Marxist critique of capitalism and the Christian denunciation of false gods.
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Beyond Jubilee
My review of Haymarket’s Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition, for The Bias magazine.
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2020
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Dialectical Ecology
Theorizing a two-way relationship between humanity and the natural world.
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Unmasking Mammon
My review of Haymarket’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics, for The Bias magazine.
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2019
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Los Angeles Intellectuals
Lurking beneath the sunny veneer of culture-capitalism is a lineage of critical work that, as Mike Davis argues, emerged as L.A.’s distinctive intellectual contribution: the genre of noir.
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2017
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My Year in Reading, 2016
Classics, novels, intellectual histories, philosophical biographies, nightmares, criticisms, and more.
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2016
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Il Campanilismo
It existed once before the nineteenth century, briefly, as part of the vast imperial structure of the Roman Empire. Before that it had been a vague idea from myth—the notion of Italia.
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