Tips for the Pre-Successful: Examining the Good Place

Edgar and I recently watched Season 3 of The Good Place on Netflix – we don’t have I happen to think that it has some of the best writing and performance in television,

Analysis, Television, Written by: CameronCameron SummersOctober 14, 2019The Good Place, Michael Schur, Franz Kafka, The Trial, George Trow, television, Writing, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, How I Met Your MotherComment

Against Enclosure: Garrett Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons" is a House Built on Sand

So, yesterday, I made the tremendous sacrifice of reading “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin, so you don’t have to. Hardin is not the canny thinker that they believe he is, and reading the original “Tragedy of the Commons” article he published in Science on 13 December 1968 shows just how flawed his reasoning is – and how bankrupt future ideological edifices built atop it are.

Analysis, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersOctober 7, 2019The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin, Essentialism, eco-fascism, racism, malthusian thinking, classism, ExterminismComment

An Anger Bigger than the World: Grady Hendrix’s Horrorstör and the Specter of Discipline

I’m generally not a fan of mixing comedy and horror. Mixing the two can have the disastrous effect of collapsing the horror into mere farce. I’m delighted to say that Horrorstör doesn’t do that: the comedy is found in the perspectives and reactions of the characters instead of the absurdity of events that surround them. It achieves its goal by placing a comic perspective within the context of horrific events.

Analysis, Book reviews, Written by: CameronCameron SummersOctober 2, 2019Grady Hendrix, Horrorstor, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Postscript on Societies of Control, Paradigm & Syntax, postmodernism, horror, monstersComment

The Difficulty of Developing a Personal Style

But, as Edgar has been saying forever, and said in that prior piece, there’s a problem looking at clothes as a vanity: the way that you dress is the only way that you can influence others’ perceptions of you without actually having to talk to them. Given my conversation skills, I quickly did an about-face and began to work on my wardrobe and hygiene.

Analysis, Personal, clothingCameron SummersSeptember 30, 2019Fashion, Marilyn Monroe, Guy Fieri, suprasternal notch, sunglasses on the back of the head Comment

With a Plumed Helmet and a Broken Sword: Blackbird Raum and Metachrony

I’m going to love “The Helm of Ned Kelly” until the day I die, because I would never have thought to equate the legend of Taliesin with the history of an Australian bushranger, and I’m still not 100% certain on the nature of the correspondence, but I still feel in my bones that the correspondence is there and that it has a value to it.

Written by: Cameron, AnalysisCameron SummersSeptember 25, 2019Blackbird Raum, Metachrony, Folk Punk, False Weavers, Under the Starling Host, Swidden, Destroying, AJJ, Mischief Brew, Pat the Bunny, Ramshackle Glory, Against Me!, The Pogues, Haymarket Squares, Immaculate MisconceptionComment