Category: Blog Post
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Fear is the heart-killer.
It has been a little more than a year since Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the US Air Force, doused himself with gasoline in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC and self-immolated in protest of the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. I was shocked and saddened when the news first crossed my social…
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The World After Gaza
I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of Pankaj Mishra in conversation with Chris Hedges discussing the “psychic ordeal” of watching a live-streamed genocide and the steady normalization of mass violence inflicted with perverse righteousness by a nation-state armed with the latest technology and a narrative of exceptional victimization. Their…
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Crisis epistemology and the making of an Anthropocene rejection
This is an unpublished paper I wrote in the Fall of 2024 about the history of the term “Anthropocene”. As the BIGGEST next thing, the Anthropocene excavates as it flattens, unearthing publishing gold in a universal crisis narrative that might critique power, but stops a mile short of any challenge to power that might threaten…
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Normalizing Empire in Hollywood
New Report From the Cost of War Project The Costs of War project at Brown University released the first in a series of reports on the normalization of pro-military messaging in American pop culture on February 25, 2025. The series is called Consuming War: How Pop Culture Captures Our Attention and Fuels Forever Wars and…
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$895 Billion for USA “freedom” in 2025
The theme of my most recent postcard design is the 2025 US Department of Defense budget that comes in at $895,000,000,000, which is the price of your FREEDOM to consume 221 flavors of Oreos, spend more than a third of your stagnant wages on housing costs, or join the ranks of the 500,000 Americans who…
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IDK Project Post
I Didn’t Know – Visual Summary I Didn’t Know is a multimedia project designed to educate the general public about the connection between war, militarism, and the environmental polycrisis – climate change especially. Before I went down a rabbithole asking questions about the Department of Defense’s climate plan, I didn’t know just how much petroleum…
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Individuals as Population
This blog post is mostly an exercise to begin organizing my thoughts around population science and the economization of life. I start off discussing BMI to paint a picture of just how much complexity is flattened and compressed into the term, followed by a brief discussion of how GDP feels very much the same to…
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Carbon Footprints
Are Americans accountable to anyone? I asked myself this question as I completed the Carbon Footprint calculator activity that was assigned to my graduate-level Sustainability course without critique or really any indication that the notion of an individual carbon footprint might be contested at all. My number came in at half of what the average…
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“From the tunnels of Gaza, what’s more underground than this?”
Around this time last year, MC Abdul first found his way into my YouTube feed with his Shouting at the Wall music video. You might recognize him from Macklemore’s Hinds Hall 2, but MC Abdul was still new to me then. This young Palestinian kid rapping these painfully vulnerable yet defiant lyrics while walking past…