A Metaphor
What if we understood civilization as a prism, refracting the white light of our deep and true selves, our primal, mammalian, amphibian, vertebrate, replicating selves, into the many-coloured splendor of […]
Category Archives: Politics and Society
Containing posts discussing social issues and theory, political issues and theory, and the occasional affair with economics.
Smoldering Fire in Big Sur
There’s mighty powerful influences around. I’m halfway through a two-day trip up Highway 1, camping out at Big Sur. Quite the quintessential Californian adventure, I must say. I’m not sure if it’s […]
I wrote a column!
As some of you may know, I spent the first few seasons of college writing for Berkeley’s marvelous independent student newspaper, The Daily Californian. I was an arts writer, and […]
Idle Thoughts While Studying Political Economy
Reading Dani Rodrik‘s 1997 essay “Has Globalization Gone too Far”, he asserts (during a discussion of common critiques of globalization) that “A common view is that the complaints of nongovernmental organizations […]
An Academic Interaction
I was just starting to read Logicomix again tonight when I started reflecting back on interactions I’d had with other academics. One that really sticks out in my mind occurred […]
Art by Majority, II
Hey world, I wanted to follow-up on the last Art by Majority post and expand on the high oratory that’s been surrounding the nexus between introspection and action. In the […]
Art by Majority
After two and half years and four co-ops, I’ve noticed something interesting about co-op councils (“council” is the common term for the weekly or bi-monthly housewide meetings where the house […]
Selections from “The Prophet”
As a sort of addendum to my previous post, I thought it would be valuable to share two chapters from Khalil Gibran‘s “The Prophet.” To contextualize, the book is a […]
