What in the hell …

[This is a placeholder to remind myself to expand upon the fact that] There’s been a recent back and forth in the bits of blogosphere I occasionally frequent, sparked by a review of a newly translated early Foucault work. I’ve not read the work in question and don’t plan to any time soon as my cheap bookselves are already crammed to busting with library books and books I shouldn’t have bought. But all this did remind me I’ve been planning to revisit two works, Nietzsche’s essay on truth and lie and Foucault’s essay on Nietzsche.

Loosely related to this and this, a friend and I have been chatting on occasion about a series of discussion workshops for student leftists, trying to help folks get better at what they want to do. (more…)

Me and my special someone went out to dinner last nite with some friends. (more…)

Actually, it’s “International Espionage!” (more…)

of this blog? I know Colin knows.
I know, but I know the owner of this currently minimalist endeavor so that’s cheating and besides - though it is part of the enabling conceit of this space - answering my own question would be kinda stupid.

Obscure hints which won’t help:

1. Four F’s.

2. When it pains it roars.

Of course, if you know those, you already know the reference.

A friend of mine asked me and Matt to speak on a panel at Tent State for students, about life after graduating. The panel’s called “Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex.” What follows is a rough draft written for me to collect my thoughts prior to presenting. (more…)

I admit I am a bit puritanical, because uptight, because raised in the Midwest etc etc.

I admit I am also a bit self-absorbed, which is how I found out about you people. (more…)

On the heels of watching that interview where Hardt talks about the WTO protests as an experiment in multitude, my friend Matt asked me and others to think of some things around the upcoming Republican National Convention, ye olde WTO protests, and multitude. He asks “What are the stakes of organizing around the concepts and practices associated with the multitude? Is mass convergence an effective way to mobilize for political change? How can/should we incorporate the lessons about white privilege that are evident in past convergences of this type?” (more…)