What in the hell …

No, not another IWW thing or whatever. It’s a proper name. (more…)

I’ve been reading Badiou’s Paul book (more…)

Someone I know is looking for information on the Gallup Employee Engagement Survey. (more…)

Notes to self. (more…)

I’m taking advantage of a little more free time than usual to do some more translating. I’m working on a piece by the Precarias a la Deriva on militant research, which originally appeared in the excellent book Nociones Communes, which collects some contemporary militant resarch materials from some people in Spain, Italy, and Argentina. (more…)

Apparently so! This is a little embarassing.
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To be even more obtuse, maybe it should be “relative (ideo)lexical rigidity.” Eric and I have been having a conversation by email about modes of speech, and power plays related to them. (more…)

What follows started out as a comment on a post Tim wrote over at the Wrong Side of Capitalism. I decided to make it an entry here not out of any assessment of it’s quality but because it got too long and I started to feel like it may be overbearing of me to leave all of this in Tim’s comment section. I just cut and pasted the entry from his comment box to here, so it’s still in the form of a comment to Tim. All of this is stuff I want to think and read and write more on, which is to say, my mind is not entirely made up. I recommend reading Tim’s post.
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