Sequences

Some arguments take more than one essay. These are meant to be read in order.

Sequence 4 parts 2026

What Deleuze, Carroll, and the Stoics can tell us about prose that has nothing behind it.

Sequence 3 parts 2026

Consumption as labor, fandom as cultural R&D, and AI training as an enclosure of the commons.

Sequence 2 parts 2025

Arendt never wrote the volume on judging. Can a machine write it, and what do we want from judging anyway?

Sequence 4 parts 2012

Working through the Bleeding Hearts and Crooked Timber debate on exit, voice, and the boss's power.

Sequence 6 parts 2011

Six posts on forgiveness as Arendt's answer to the irreversibility of action, Auden's Falstaff, and her prejudice against charity.

Sequence 3 parts 2010

Building institutions that get it right about moral value, starting from the Catholic Church's troubles.