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The Pandemic Proved Graeber’s BS Argument
I wish David Graeber were around to update his book Bullshit Jobs. From “essential worker” to “quiet quitting,” mainstream culture has found a way to underscore his thesis: a large percentage of jobs are bullshit, and the people performing them are aware of this fact (much to their psychic detriment). Essential workers are non-BS jobs.…
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Humanism
I live my life as data points awaiting the hand of a godfound nowherein any machine.
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Time Travel, the Cilantro of Sci-Fi
I wrote a time-travel flash-fiction for the good people at Brain Mill Press which you can read here. I like time travel. It never works out, logistically-speaking (at least for my brain) but it opens up emotional possibilities. There’s something very beautiful and human about wanting to change the past, whether to avert a tragedy…
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What’s My Lane?
This morning, I read a great, instructive Twitter thread by @writingtheother about white authors writing BIPOC characters. FWIW, a few stray thoughts: I’m sympathetic to the argument that artists should be able to write, draw, sing, sculpt any old thing they want to, the only limit being their desire to do so. This doesn’t mean…
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The Other Virus is Capital
It’s May 8, 2020. Italy is opening up — to levels of lock-down that resemble the strictest rules in the US. Here in the US, we did not close all restaurants, factories, and construction sites. All over the world, countries are pausing, freezing, and/or putting the economy in an induced coma. In Denmark, this means…