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Short posts, ideas, fragments, aimless thoughts.

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  • Jan 8, 2026

    Year in Review, 2025

    A look back at the exhasuting but resilient year that was 2025.

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  • Oct 1, 2025

    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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  • Jul 23, 2025

    New Astro Site, 2025

    A new redesign and build of this site with Astro.

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  • Jan 20, 2024

    New Site Design for 2024

    A new redesign of this site using Deno Lume, plus some fun server(less) interactions.

    Notes
  • Sep 4, 2023

    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.

    Notes
  • Jul 4, 2023

    My PC Apostasy: On Converting to the Cult of MacOS

    Crossing the operating system Tiber.

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  • Feb 26, 2023

    New Site Typeface: Brix Sans

    Add a summary

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  • Sep 17, 2021

    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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  • May 8, 2021

    Spiritual Mergers & Acquisitions

    Does Christianity truly constitute an “alternative spirit” to capitalism?

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  • Apr 2, 2021

    Subversive Bach

    The subversive undertones of Bach’s Johannes Passion.

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  • Nov 5, 2020

    Cardboard Darwinism & Double Transference

    How dubious science leads to bad politics.

    Notes
  • Oct 5, 2020

    On Sorting Books

    Shelving books is, in fact, a dialectical art.

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  • Sep 24, 2020

    Two World Views of the Russian Revolution

    Walter Rodney’s dialectics of historical inquiry.

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  • Aug 20, 2019

    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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  • Feb 13, 2019

    The Marx Delusion

    A specter is haunting characterizations of Karl Marx.

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  • Aug 21, 2017

    David Lynch and the Nature of the Surreal

    Wrestling with the Lynchean concept of evil.

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