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Do not engage: Ur-Fascism and Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger

After the explosion of “Canada’s meat-poisoned eccentric,” in the mid-20 teens, I found myself on the floor of my studio apartment in Aarhus with a pen, spiral-bound notebook, and a pair headphones, determined to figure out what Jordan B(althazar) Peterson was arguing. I desperately wanted to know what was valuable in his argument and above…
Remember Omar Aziz: Reviewing The Syrian Revolution Reader

Since the so-called “End of History,” (at the very least), many people (especially those who look like me) on Turtle Island have been living in a general state of “colonial unknowing” and a fake sense that their immediate world is extraordinary safe and peaceful (at least domestically). I have a hunch that this bubble of…
Thinking Beyond Elections: A Review of Zoe Baker’s Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States

Hark! Elections darken the fragile horizon. At least here in CanMerica they do. A few months ago I’d begun to descend into that cold fire of anxiety that curdles my flesh and transforms me into a being of the purest ranker and dyspepsia. My thoughts plummeted inwards as the word I was cradling in my…
Fuck “Sustainable Development Goals,” have y’all ever heard of Communism?: Reviewing Kōhei Saitō’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

It’s hard to overstate the significance of a degrowth COMMUNIST MANIFESTO selling so many copies in Japan alone and the ensuing pseudo-celebrity of it’s author, though of course as many are quick to remark, purchasing a book and agreeing with its contents, let alone enacting it, are not quite the same thing. Nonetheless, the left…
Land Acknowledgement (Version 1.0)

Where I’m writing from today in so-called St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada is traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Wendat and Chonnonton peoples.
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): Reintegration and Burnout

Hello, It’s been a long time. Sorry about that. While I lived in Aarhus (from August 2017 → June 2018), I wrote the most songs I’ve ever written. At the end of my time there, my partner and I did some travelling. I had neither a guitar nor time to make music. When I eventually…
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): Experiencing Time and Home Abroad

The experience of students abroad is a peculiar one. As young adults, I think we have the desire, or I do anyway, to set up our lives permanently, but of course, everything has a half-life when you’re away like this (and in general). For much of the beginning of this year, I thought about what…
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020) : March Travels Part 2: Rome

Welcome, to the second and final late piece on my stint of March travelling with my parents. If you haven’t read the first check it out here, and then come back to this one. Or, if you are just so rebellious, carry on and let your hardened rebel soul influence me and my complacent peers.…
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): March Travels Part 1: Stockholm

View fullsize Selfie of the three of us! I have been travelling again, and this is the best I could come up with for an opening sentence. I think I caught a cold or something on a plane and as such am a baby and am going to blame that sentence, and this one, on…
Archived from Old Blog (Pre-2020): The Emotional Toll of Climate Change

Trigger warning: suicide, mental illness. I have been writing and rewriting this entry for months, but in light of David S. Buckel’s self-immolation in protest of fossil fuels on Saturday, I thought I’d better post it now (New York Daily News; “Prominent Lawyer in Fight for Gay Rights Dies” and “He Called Out Sick, Then Apologized for…