Nikos Kazantzakis’ towering literary output reflects a lifelong effort to articulate both spiritual and political radicalisms, for which the figure of Christ is often the embodiment.
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Choosing the right typeface for a website or project is an inexact science that often seems wholly subjective or arbitrary. For me, it’s a mostly intuitive process that involves a lot of trial and error. But sometimes things just click.
Playing around with the Mapbox GL JS API and plotting observed meteorite falls.
My review of The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher.
My entirely not-of-the-moment, provisional list of favorite reads from 2022, the books that most shaped my thinking this year.
Using the Airtable hybrid spreadsheet-database app as a CMS "back-end" for a personal portfolio Jamstack website.
My review of Satantango by László Krasznahorkai.
My review of A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx by Sven-Eric Liedman.
How I came to build (a previous version of) this site on the Jamstack.
As tempting as it is to fantasize on what could have been, the historian’s task, Hobsbawm quips, is to analyze what was. And so despite his sympathies and disappointments, Hobsbawm does what no ideological historian can do, but which only the best Marxist thinkers are capable of.