superbad visuals

rob crooks: Time and space are both an integral whole / Like accident and substance, spatiotemporal / Fact is that time and space are the same / Like matter and mind, just taken from an advantage that isolates them / Abstracts and violates / Can’t cross space with duration, or a minute without the world… Continue reading superbad visuals

Gazogene

Sometime near the beginning of the pandemic, Kay reached out to let us know his friend and collaborator Kitz Willman would be moving to Winnipeg. Kitz is a unique case of someone who moved here by choice. He recognized what it took me well into my adulthood to appreciate: that Winnipeg and the land it… Continue reading Gazogene

The Empire is in Decline and Growing Weaker by the Day

In January, 2022, Iranian President Sayyed Ebrahim Raisi told President of Nicaragua and leader of the Sandinistas, Daniel Ortega, that “the US is in decline and growing weaker by the day.” This simple statement succinctly summed up the ever more apparent shift in global attitude towards the world’s only superpower and its system of exploitation.… Continue reading The Empire is in Decline and Growing Weaker by the Day

Adventures in the Dialectic Part 2: Philosophy and Politics

In the last post, I tried to show how both Lenin and Fichte came to similar conclusions regarding the primary term in ontology, although they reached their conclusions from opposite sides of the issue. Namely, they both came to the conclusion that one’s ontological commitment is grounded in one’s interest.  Fichte’s interest is in bourgeois… Continue reading Adventures in the Dialectic Part 2: Philosophy and Politics

Adventures in the Dialectic: Materialism or Idealism

I was reading Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which includes two introductions to the German philosopher’s theory of scientific knowledge. The two introductions were meant to clarify misunderstandings and to respond to critiques of his Wissenschaftslehre (literally, theory of scientific knowledge). Fichte is an interesting figure in the history of philosophy and,… Continue reading Adventures in the Dialectic: Materialism or Idealism