Archive

2022

Catch-up ’22  (Dec 29)
Why Utopia Fails  (Sep 24)
The Self Compass  (Aug 18)
Language Erodes  (Jul 19)
The Political Is Personal (May 24)
It’s a Book!  (Apr 20)
7 Unworkable Projects  (Apr 9)
7 Swedish Words to Import  (Mar 16)
7 Hang-ups to Hang up on  (Feb 23)
Toxic Emissions  (Jan 27)
Looking Back at ’21 and Forward to the Rest (Jan 6)

2021

Thank The Machine  (Dec 20)
The Importance of Being a Slog (Nov 19)
The Woke-up Call: A Review of Cynical Theories (Oct 26)
A Hundred for the 100th (Sep 21)
Political Capital Flow Management and the Importance of Yutting (Aug 24)
Cat Couplings Revisited (Jul 18)
Rereading Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate (Jun 23)
Love Letter to an Encyclopedia (May 26)
Further Comments on a Joke (Apr 29)
Abolish Secret Ballots (Apr 1)
Platist Politics (Feb 24)
A Quickie on Cancel Culture Questions (Jan 27)
I Hate the Plate (Jan 26)

2020

Hindsight in 2020 (Dec 29)
Variations on the Tilted Political Compass (Dec 16)
Fantasia For Two Voices (Nov 17)
Ahistorical Siblings (Oct 27)
Notes on Notes (Sep 24)
Turnabout Trash: An Exercise in Lowbrow Cryptonormativism (Aug 18)
To Die Happily Ever After (July 29)
Good vs. Good (June 25)
Leftovers from Last Time (May 22)
Review: The AI Does Not Hate You (Mar 20)
Picking Apart Eugenics (Feb 17)
It’s Not So Only (Jan 28)

2019

The End of 2019 (Dec 30)
Erisology, Round Three (Nov 22)
Cat Couplings (Oct 30)
Interpretation Matrix: Free Trade Benefits Everyone (Sep 12)
The Prince and the Figurehead (Aug 19)
In Favor of Sometimes Sounding Like a Robot (Jul 24)
A Disagreement About Disagreement (Jun 26)
A Defense of Erisology (May 13)
The Tilted Political Compass, Part 2: Up and Down (Mar 25)
The Tilted Political Compass, Part 1: Left and Right (Mar 1)
Postscript to a Podcast (Feb 4)
A Meta-Meditation (Jan 23)

2018

2018 in Review (Dec 29)
The Romeo And Juliet Fallacy (Dec 19)
I, LPC (Dec 6)
Anatomy of Racism (Nov 16)
Taste Books That Don’t Take Off (Oct 9)
The More The Merrier (Sep 20)
Facing the Elephant (Aug 24)
30 Fundamentals (Jul 16)
Postmodernism vs. The Pomoid Cluster (Jun 21)
Decoupling Revisited (May 25)
The Eurovision Song Contest: A Meaning-Making Machine (May 11)
A Deep Dive into the Harris-Klein Controversy (Apr 26)
Voices on the Genius of the Bit Artists (Apr 1)
Musical Interlude (Mar 23)
Six Kinds of Reading (Mar 12)
Beliefs as Endorsements
(Feb 23)
Wordy Weapons of Is-Ought Alloy (Feb 12)
Leaving 2017 for 2018 (Jan 6)

2017

The Signal and the Corrective (Dec 19)
A Lament on Simler Et Al (Dec 5)
My Week in the Real World (Nov 23)
The Nerd as the Norm (Nov 7)
Signed Google Translate (Oct 18)
Guest Post: Editing for All (Sep 27)
The Big List of Existing Things
(Sep 12)
Dangers at Dilettante Point (Aug 28)
On Chords, Maps and Effects in Art (Aug 18)
Erisology of Self and Will, Parts 1-7 (Jun 30 – Aug 11)
Introducing r/erisology
 (Jun 28)
Rant on Arrival (Jun 20)
The Good, the True and the Undefined (May 29)
The Eurovision Song Contest Taste Landscape (May 12)
All the World’s a Trading Zone, and All the Languages Merely Pidgins (Apr 29)
People Are Different
(Apr 24)
Reactions to “Infinite Jest”
(Apr 6)
Mass-producing Hansons
(Mar 16)
Science, the Constructionists, and Reality
(Mar 6)
In Defence of Evidence Resistance (Feb 25)
Superweapon Proliferation Worries
(Jan 27)

2016

Hating Mr. Collins (Dec 28)
Erisology, Take Two
(Dec 13)
Varieties of “Black Mirror” Appreciation – A Statistical Analysis (Dec 3)
Case Study: The War on Christmas
(Nov 24)
Hiatus
(Nov 7)
Do Say “Could Care Less” (Jun 23)
Argument Sniping (Jun 8)
Partial Derivatives and Partial Narratives (Jun 2)
The Charms of Foreign Language Music (May 24)
Why I Love the ESC (May 12)
Idea Infatuation (Apr 21)
There Are Four Seasons (Apr 14)
“Literally” Literally Explained (Mar 31)
My Shadow Twin Sister (Mar 24)
Problems and Challenges (Mar 17)
Conversations Going Critical (Mar 6)
A Tiny Mountain (Feb 3)
The Underdetection of Fiction Logic
(Jan 25)
Illusory Communion (Jan 19)
Erisology (Jan 12)
Origin Story (Jan 6)