Category: ethics

• Your 2022 Resolutions

  Dec 31

  Instead of writing personal resolutions for myself this year I decided to write resolutions for you. Here are eight impersonal resolutions guaranteed to make you a better person and the… more ›

• Love Letter

  Jun 29

  I sent a love letter to the DNC this morning: After 30 years of voting almost entirely for Democratic candidates on local, state, and national ballots I will no longer… more ›

• Gaza

  Jul 25

  No, we do not have to accept the status quo. We do not have to accept the fact that our nation unqualifiedly supports Israel. We can hold our representatives accountable.… more ›

• The Adjunct: Confessions and Manifesto of a Benefits-Deprived Professor

  Feb 11

  First, we need to create honest and accurate language. Adjunct designates an inessential supplement, yet adjunct professors are just as permanent a fixture at colleges and universities trying to save a… more ›

• Capitalism

  Nov 13

  Shopkeeper brandishes gun to prevent “looters”–otherwise known as desperate and traumatized survivors–from foraging for food and supplies. The only justice would be this fascist pig dying of starvation because he… more ›

• Listen

  Dec 12

  Voice precedes face, revealing the necessary disruption of alterity that subtends our subjectivity, our identity. We hear before we see. We know that we can always close our eyes, turn… more ›

• Arboreal Being

  Jun 7

  He feels for the tree that did not survive yesterday’s storm. He mourns its removal from his yard, his life, the world. He knows that nothing is ever created or… more ›

• Magna pretium cognoscere.

  Jun 1

  Pity the wood that finds itself a violin. Pity the thought that finds itself man.He thinks it must be due to faulty metaphysics from calculative reckoning gone awry that there… more ›

• Mindful of the Date

  Jan 20

  Seventy years ago today a small group of people meet for ninety minutes at a lovely villa in a Berlin suburb to articulate how they would systematically murder another “group”… more ›

• The Ruination and Salvation of Life/Writing, Part III

  Jul 15

  Maurice Blanchot’s own biography—the writing of his life—attests to the experience of life as, through, and by way of writing. We know almost nothing about the man, even when we… more ›