Considering that over a month has passed without any posting, I figure that I should write something so as to not lapse into obscurity. Let's be clear: my job, not to mention my life in general, has temporarily appropriated my energy––I've had very little time to blog. For example, I really want to continue that Terrorist Assemblages series of reviews , but how can I do that when I'm spending half of the week re-reading 19th century continental philosophy so as to teach it (which means, very slowly with a bazillion reading notes so as to lead class discussion), let alone all of the things I'm doing outside of this job? Hell, when I have free reading time these days I generally focus on fiction because at least it's a good break from my state of affairs. (A tangent: I just discovered that Ngugi wa Thiong'o has a son who writes hardboiled detective genre fiction with an anti-imperialist twist! I'm thinking about reviewing the first on my arts-inclined blo
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist reflections