There's a palace in your head
The first chapter of a book I wrote about climate change and life during end times.
Tate Williams
Terror on the outskirts of Eddington
Ari Aster's near-masterpiece generates all the horrors of 2020, but the big bad is a bloodsucking data center in the desert.
It's everybody's fight
A conversation with Liz Casey of Community Care Tucson on the power of mutual aid, the cruelty of immigration detention, and how city officials are failing us.
Hello crisis my old friend
Another gritty reboot
News from Crisis Palace!
Catching up after a big move—and an exciting announcement. My fam, my goodness it has been so long I have really missed each and every one of you and hope you are all holding on tight and finding your peace and joy wherever you can.
110: It brings forth a world
On the brink of a big change, learning from the mesquite tree This is going to be the last newsletter before a bit of a hiatus, don't worry nothing is wrong but I do have news which is that I am moving to Tucson, Arizona. I know, big
109: Climate change in solid form
Plastic waste is inescapable, driven by industry, and inseparable from the climate crisis Today we are going to talk about something that is very close to my heart, which is plastic, and by that I mean it is literally close to my heart because the sweatshirt I am wearing is
108: If there were no future
Today is an exciting day because we are going to talk about Children of Men, one of my favorite movies of all time.
107: Is there no alternative?
Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is a grim thesis, but a tough one to argue with right now And we are back. I have missed you all I hope everyone had a decent if not great holiday and got to spend some time with loved ones and look at
106: The world won't end
A bunch of things I loved in 2021 I've been working on some year-end retrospective things for work lately and maybe it's just the contrast to how darkly dramatic 2020 and especially its conclusion were, but I've been having a hard time sort of
105: Reparative justice
The third annual Crisis Palace feel good guide to year end giving One of the things about living during the Biden administration is that the Republican Party's horrors hit differently than they did under Trump, when they were mostly inescapable, because try as you might, you could not
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104: All the blood in the world is mine
In Wendy Brown's Undoing the Demos, neoliberalism brings the tyranny of the market and the death of the democratic project -- Oh boy, another issue being written right as our Diarrhea Country kicks into full gear, in this case the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, which we honestly all knew