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Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!
May 1, 2024
I’m reading a lot more continental philosophy lately than I ever have before (I know — I know. I know!) and been having an interesting thought about...
Left-liberal self-criticism
April 13, 2024
One of the purposes of this newsletter is to work through some theoretical materials to excavate whatever in them might be useful to developing a more...
Notes on "Within Reason" by Sandro Galea
April 6, 2024
Good evening, sickos. I am preparing to record an episode of Death Panel duck-hunting Sandro's new-ish book, Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an...
Counting perinatal deaths
March 23, 2024
I'm currently preparing to record an episode of Death Panel about my most important niche interest: counting deaths in pregnancy and postpartum. This is in...
Regerts, I've had a few...
March 18, 2024
Hey everyone. I really am sorry. I am doing a really shitty job keeping up with this newsletter, and it hasn't really been because I'm busy, but more because...
For all and on behalf of all
February 25, 2024
Before 2020, nobody knew what epidemiologists did -- I can track the normalization of COVID-19 by the number of people who, upon meeting me, ask if that's...
Therborn 2: interpellation boogaloo
January 15, 2024
Let's see... can I write about the second chapter of this book in a fun and engaging way? Nobody wants to look at the hole COVID blew in our collective...
Closed Form Clásico: Goop Lab (from 02/2020)
January 5, 2024
Happy New Year, everybody. I'm looking forward to getting back into some heavy theory posting and navel gazing in 2024. To ease us all back in, I'm sharing...
Social murder and social meaning
December 14, 2023
Just a quick introductory note -- this is an essay that is no longer going to appear in the publication it was scheduled to. Everything is fine, but since...
Machines of loving grace
December 12, 2023
Recently on Death Panel we did a loose episode on AI in healthcare, inspired by the class action lawsuit against UnitedHealth over the use of its algorithmic...
If I knew the way, I would take you home
November 18, 2023
Source. Four Tarot cards, all depicting Trump XIII, Death. From left to right, Rider Waite Smith, Thoth, the Jungian Tarot, and Initiatory Tarot of the...
Left analyses of COVID
November 10, 2023
As I have been working on a draft of something else, I have been thinking a lot about the explanations available to us for sense- and meaning-making around...
A wan "howdy" from groover's paradise
November 1, 2023
Greetings! Happy Halloween! And apologies for the long interval between newsletters. Further apologies that this one isn't a very heavy hitter. The reason...
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator 🤖
October 11, 2023
Remember Co-Star? The algorithmic astrology app? (My Co-Star horoscope today: "You don't need to catalog everything you think." Well, you're not the boss of...
Autumn playlist
October 6, 2023
Today is a bit of a failure to launch for me so I'm using this newsletter to construct a short playlist out of things that aren't available on streaming (to...
Therborn 1: ideology, subjectivity, angel numbers
October 5, 2023
I finished my first pass through Göran Therborn's The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology (1980) recently (this is a Nate recommendation, thank you...
Propositions on social murder 3: social murder itself
October 2, 2023
This is the last part of my notes from Socialism Conference, based on my reading of a chapter in a volume that Nate contributed to (Nate! What's the...
The kingdom of heaven is where?!
September 28, 2023
Usually, when I wake up, I involve myself in a grueling morning routine for something like two hours. This routine includes caring for my neurotic cats,...
Propositions on social murder 2: moral economy
September 25, 2023
Not a super fun or funny or engaging post, but what follows is the second part (of three) of my notes for Socialism conference. The ideas of moral economy...
Hamlet soliloquizing at a crystal skull
September 22, 2023
I just read through Nate's posts and laughed so hard, holy shit. Then I got insecure and freaked out because my first post on here was so serious and...
Propositions on social murder 1: general themes
September 19, 2023
What follows is a lightly edited (for clarity, readability, etc.) version of notes I prepared in advance of the session that Nate and I both participated in...