Since I figured I couldn't possibly get any more bored than I already am while unemployed during this pandemic, I thought I might settle...

Central to the model of premodern Southeast Asian padi-states that Jared Scott writes about in The Art of Not Being Governed is his ...

i lost track of this blog after the election. i guess writing seemed especially futile right around then. the digital media boom ended w...

in march of this year i remember noting how warm it was. it was nice - sun on my skin, walking outside without a jacket. i thought that t...

my first few listens to the life of pablo left me disappointed that there wasn’t more kanye on it. in retrospect, i think what i meant was...

i’ve been crawling through walter ong’s Orality and Literacy for a while now, savoring it a few pages at a time. this is one of many luxu...

“we were struck with the fact that, in all the mass of material from which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document!...