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Oct 17, 2021

State Formation in the Interest of Present Value

Regardless of the exact mechanism of modern state formation, be it differing modes of production (Hechter and Brustein, Regional Modes of Production and Patterns of State Formation, 1980), racketeering and war-making (Tilly, War Making and State Making as Organized Crime, 1985), or dynastic lordship (Sharma, Kinship, Property, and Authority, 2015)…

Politics

3 min read


Oct 13, 2021

Informing Novel Indigeneity: a counterproposal to Indigenous identification

Abstract In this article, I argue that place is fundamental to indigeneity, therefore an ancestrally aboriginal people cannot be indigenous without their land. I make this argument to support the claim that, while it might be possible for Indigenous people to obtain tribal or cultural sovereignty through nation building efforts in…

Indigenous

31 min read


Sep 21, 2021

Peace As State Power

The making of war is integral to the formation of the nation state. However, upon closer inspection, it is found that peace-making is what truly gives rise to State power. In his book The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker touts greatly what he considers to be the substantive…

Politics

3 min read

Peace As State Power
Peace As State Power

Feb 2, 2021

The Anarchist Charter

The fact is we must accept our anarchist state. There can, and should, be associations, individuals banded together in common cause, but anarchy is the default, so this is where we must begin. Not “you are a citizen of this country or that” or “you belong to this political system…

Anarchism

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The Anarchist Charter
The Anarchist Charter

Published in Cafe News

·Feb 2, 2021

Cafe News, Vol. 3

So there I was, no shit. I love when there is truth to vernacular. I pushed myself off the ground and spit a little blood. Fuck that shit tastes good when you know you earned it. Thank god for a fair fight. I was so exposed I was already dead…

Fiction

3 min read

Cafe News, Vol. 3
Cafe News, Vol. 3

Published in Cafe News

·Feb 2, 2021

Cafe News, Volume 2

The very next day I had the dream again. It was the same dream, except this time she was in it, which I can tell you really sucked. I didn’t think I would ever have the dream about her. …

Fiction

3 min read

The very next day I had the dream again.
The very next day I had the dream again.

Published in Cafe News

·Dec 28, 2020

Cafe News, Volume 1

It all started from nothing, really. She had just thrown me out of the flat, and I was drifting down the sidewalk in a most exceptional daze. It was a strange sensation, not disappointment or sadness of any sort, just this blissful sense of surprised relief. I could hear the…

Fiction

2 min read

Cafe News, Volume 1
Cafe News, Volume 1

Published in Cafe News

·Dec 28, 2020

Christmas edition, 2006

No one wants to grow up. And I don’t blame them. Childhood is the most precious time in life. …

Christmas

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Christmas edition, 2006
Christmas edition, 2006

Jul 1, 2020

Why “Getting Back to Normal” is the Last Thing We Should Do

When I think about the coronavirus pandemic, my mind often wanders to what I would be doing did it not exist. Going about my business. Continuing to be a cog in the machine. Perpetuating the status quo. Is that what we want? In our rush to get back to “normal”…

Coronavirus

2 min read

Why “getting back to normal” is the last thing we should do.
Why “getting back to normal” is the last thing we should do.

Published in microryu

·Apr 17, 2020

Distributed Production in the Age of Disruption

It was 2012 when I stumbled upon my first micro-distillery. Initially, I was simply excited about having come across something novel and having found another pathway to source locally. …

Distributed Systems

3 min read

Distributed Production in the Age of Disruption
Distributed Production in the Age of Disruption
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