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Recent Posts

Aug 13, 2025
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24 min read

Notes on Agamben: Homo Sacer II.5

Thoughts on Homo Sacer: Opus Dei

Aug 2, 2025
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38 min read

Notes on Agamben: Homo Sacer II.4

Thoughts on Homo Sacer: The Kingdom and the Glory

Jul 26, 2025
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26 min read

Notes on Agamben: Homo Sacer II.3

Thoughts on Homo Sacer: The Sacrament of Language

Jul 19, 2025
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15 min read

Notes on Agamben: Homo Sacer II.2

Thoughts on Homo Sacer: Civil War as a Political Paradigm

Jul 18, 2025
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03 min read

Comedy and Theory

How comedy and theory relate but in practice

Jul 12, 2025
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19 min read

Notes on Agamben: Homo Sacer II.1

Thoughts on Homo Sacer: The State of Exception

Jul 6, 2025
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22 min read

Notes on Agamben: Homo Sacer I

Thoughts on Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Jun 28, 2025
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10 min read

Jackson: The Determination of Union

Andrew Jackson's controversial legacy as the unenigmatic warrior-president who embodied America's frontier spirit and democratic revolution

Jun 15, 2025
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47 min read

Étienne de La Boétie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

A translation of a challenge to not submit

Mar 10, 2025
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04 min read

The Lead Age: Climate Studies of Late Antiquity

The adverse effects of lead on late Rome

Aug 13, 2025
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24 min read