At long last, I am putting out my documentary on the effort to create the nation’s first safe injection site in Philadelphia. Below the video, I’ve shared my thoughts on making the film. Thanks for watching and reading. They were calling it the opioid crisis. I’d been covering it with…
Recall that in Lecture 4 May describes the problematic field, where there are no pre-given solutions, but rather a variety of ways in which difference can actualize itself into identities. He starts off Lecture 5 recapping how this appears in Narrative Work: We saw the problematic field defined by the…
When you have a crisis (Which is what starts real thought) You’re no longer in a familiar space Suppose it is a crisis of love You can go back to the familiar space. You read about how it is that the relationships go, and you just go along with it…
This is a continuation from Part One. You can find May’s Lecture Series on Deleuze here. Goddamn I can get lost in the prologue sometimes. Thanks for indulging me fam. I’ll try to be more succinct with the through-line this time. This abstract philosophical pondering ultimately leads to something executable.…
Generative AI is a travesty. Got fooled by some beginners luck the other day when I made this clip (added some audio): It took a bit of tweaking. I basically asked for overweight Americans walking into a Japanese shrine like it was a WWE event. First iterations were lame, but…
It seems it may be best to start with difference. After all, this is a site that takes its name from a core concept of Monsieur Deleuze. But deterritorialization we can wrestle with at a later date. First… I arrived at Marxism through a self-guided multi-year survey of the Western…
In late July 2023, as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America’s International Committee, I joined my comrade Gerard Dalbon on a trip to Okinawa. We were invited by ZENKO (平和と民主主義をめざす全国交歓会), an anti-war leftist group in Japan, to witness the indigenous struggle against unwanted US Military base expansion. Despite…
While training for a half-marathon, and in light of the latest atrocities in Gaza, I started listening to the audiobook On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé. Pappé is a historian originally from Israel, and I thought his chapter on Israel’s Incremental Genocide was a good primer. The essay…
n this video we explore Saito’s unique and groundbreaking interpretation of Marx’s Capital as “a book about metabolism between humans and nature”.
With origami, you’ve got that piece of paper and you don’t add to it. You don’t take away from it. You change it. And that’s a good sort of way of crystallizing the logic of what Spinoza means by substance.
