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Descartes is bugging me. In the second meditation, he argues that because he is able to perceive and judge that he perceives wax, this demon...

I’m teaching Philosophy of Mind this semester. It’s odd that the philosophy department has a course called Philosophy of Mind. It’s throwing...

Every so often something overtakes me and I try to write poetry, or, more accurately, something like the following happens. This is from abo...

Consciousness is a funny thing. Late modern and postmodern theories have attempted to establish, variously, that consciousness is an insign...

Shortly after eating lunch, after a longish bike ride that felt good, I realized I was starting to experience spinning in my visual field. ...

Even before traffic stopped on the freeway on the drive up to Sacramento on Friday afternoon, I was in a funk. The entire route I could see...

It’s evaluation time for non-tenure-track faculty at the university. That’s the time I get the most faculty rights work, because w...

The work of Michel Foucault has had a deep impact on theorizing in gender studies, queer theory, critical disability studies, and other crit...

I wrote the following to respond to arguments against reforming the constitution of the general faculty at my (beloved) stupid university. T...

It's been a long time, but I once used to teach my classes and go home. I had other things on my mind then, like trying to hustle more c...

I’m letting ideas swirl around a bit. Some of my motivation for investigating normality and normalization is autobiographical. I wrote in ...

This morning, upon waking, I was thinking about situations in which pain is desired. The erotic relation to pain is exhibited and practiced...

Ernest Mandel discusses the tension in the relationship of university education to capitalist accumulation in p260ff of Late Capitalism . L...

It has been a while since I wrote a year-in-review post--over three years, in fact. It may seem inapposite to post a year -in-review rather ...

I know I need to learn more about critical race theory, and I know the reason I have not done so is that I’m afraid to confront my own raci...

One of the simple ways to dismiss Marx is to say that his communist society could never exist because human nature is greedy and competitiv...

Too often, when Marxists write about popular culture, they come off as grumpy, unhip old poops. Exhibit A: Theodor “Don’t Call Me Sweetie” A...