- Sometimes in academic life you look around and doubt yourself profoundly
- More often the academy seems the most intellectually moribund place on Earth
- Television and insight are mutually exclusive
- Industrial design makes you feel more wealthy than you actually are
- Make a little birdhouse in your soul
- My blog posts can’t actually be shared on Facebook, despite appearances
- I didn’t realize this until recently
- Anthropology is what sociology ought to have been
- Well, except the silly attachment to fieldwork
- Urban Mother Nature has a similar personality to the urban hipster kids
- The Post Office worked a hundred times better in Chicago
- Roberto Bolano’s 2666 may be the best novel I’ve ever read
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§ As you get older, the ghosts become more real than anything else.
§ Under the leaves, soil. Under the soil, stone. Under the stone, souls.
§ Radically empowering individuals in society may be the worst mistake we ever made.
§ Want to be a radical? Refuse to suffer. Then, wait for the assault.
§ Goodbye 2017, part two. (The real part.)
§ Sometimes you find home where you’ve never been—and you dwell where you aren’t.
§ The self can’t play Atlas for postmodernity because science is now supernatural.
§ Rehab is universal. So is history.
§ Identity, transcendence, and tactics.
§ Untitled. (a.k.a. Pretty faces, new old photos.)