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RADIUS CCA – Closeness of Toxicity event 14 Oct 2023 This was the access copy for this talk – if you were there and would like a copy, please email me!

Kunstuniversität Linz, 12 Oct 2023 – this was the access copy for this talk – if you were there and need it, please email me! Abstract: Anarchists have long argued that there is a vital connection between means and ends, that how we do things matters to what we can accomplish in collective movements for…

Institute of World Literature, Bratislava – 11 Oct 2023 (access copy was here if you were at the talk and need a copy, you are welcome to email me) Abstract: It is a standard existentialist trope that humans come into the world without a pre-given purpose for our existence. On this view, there is nothing…

I have been experimenting with an approach to grading and feedback that I haven’t seen many other teachers doing, and a couple of people have asked for me to write it down. In the below I’m going to explain the “menu of options” approach I’m now using, and also say a bit about using pass/no…

(this was an access copy for a conversation about this work, Thursday, May 12, 1 – 2pm EST) On the stage of this show, but also in our lives, we enact different roles; our expressive intent does not control the interpretive uptake we might receive. Thus talking about something like whiteness invites us to dwell…

Hamburg, 21 April 2022 (this was the access copy for the live version of this talk) Jesuit priest, pacifist, and anti-nuclear activist Danial Berrigan once gave a famously short convocation speech at a New York high school. He came on stage and said only: “Know where you stand and stand there.” I’m interested in both…

A couple of people have asked for the actual final copy of this piece – it came out in this great broadsheet published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, available in a pdf in an issue called “Bearing.” I’m revising it for the book I’m working on, but of course that takes…

University of Hamburg, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter  Philosophisches Seminar November 22, 2021 My core argument in this piece is: We should be in solidarity against straightness. I want to be on the side of straight people, against straightness as norm, institution, and system. While my own political orientation remains toward queerness of many sorts, I’ve come to…

Writing advice! I have given so much of it. As part of a general feeling of not knowing what the fuck I’m doing, I’ve been revisiting giving advice at all. In particular, I’ve been wondering if it’s ever good to give writing advice. This is because it is literally my job to teach people to…