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Cause and Affect

With every terrible event, my mind can’t stop from focusing on its contingency: it didn’t have to be this way. It almost wasn’t. If we knew better, we could prepare.

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Trade-offs

Can we make sure our belief in anarchy and freedom is not just another faith that serves as an alibi and positions us above history nodding our heads? The Enlightenment runs deep, a most dangerous export of colonialism. When we concede to reason(s), we lose autonomy.

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Should We Care About the Universities?

The university prepared the way for this assault against its own power. It isn’t the institution that must be defended.

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The Unwanted Revolution

I want to destroy the state and I want to live.

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Becoming a Traitor

How can we support a dispersed yet powerful refusal by anyone who retains any shred of power within these systems to play their roles? How can we cultivate traitors?

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SWITCHPOINTS, or jumping timelines

There are moments when you feel the timeline jump. You are sitting there and there is a breach, a punch in the gut—breathless. Then the whole world reconfigures around something new that has jutted into this reality. These can be bad personal moments, shocks like an unexpected breakup, a

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Burn Down the Hot Take Machine

Logging onto twitter of instagram after the election involves confronting a series of reaction posts posing as political insight, which, in the typical memeified leftism/anarchism, usually functions through scolding, moralizing, or just simple “I told you so.” I don’t believe anyone who says they knew something would happen,

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Bad History

I wrote this before Luigi Mangione shot the CEO of United Healthcare. Such an act, totally unpredictable but ripping open the seams of this world to instantiate possibility in the present, is a beautiful act—not historical, since it breaks with this world and cannot be contained by time. Why