Alan Rudy
@aprudy.bsky.social
that pic was long ago... father, partner, once-DIII soccer, club ultimate, and free-form radio
He's so damned good... and writes beautifully.
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
He's so damned good... and writes beautifully.
Soper's right about Marx relations with materiality must be part of studying subjectivity & practical knowledge production. But, there is nothing specifically human about needing to be born, breath, eat, excrete, & have shelter. Marxists need to stress the relations, not the animal requirements.
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Soper's right about Marx relations with materiality must be part of studying subjectivity & practical knowledge production. But, there is nothing specifically human about needing to be born, breath, eat, excrete, & have shelter. Marxists need to stress the relations, not the animal requirements.
Foster, et al., are clear in their commitments. Nature is remarkably complex while being restricted the fundamental, trans-historical, elemental, material, law-like, and non-human objects of the universe. R. Williams was wrong, it is singular and does not contain a lot of human history.
October 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Foster, et al., are clear in their commitments. Nature is remarkably complex while being restricted the fundamental, trans-historical, elemental, material, law-like, and non-human objects of the universe. R. Williams was wrong, it is singular and does not contain a lot of human history.
Nature, Ecology, Environment
October 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Nature, Ecology, Environment
Only someone who has never spent time in, or with those from, the trenches of environmental justice movements could write this.
October 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Only someone who has never spent time in, or with those from, the trenches of environmental justice movements could write this.
Got to make a living not under console of our own choosing, or something...
October 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Got to make a living not under console of our own choosing, or something...
My writing career summed up in one image
October 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My writing career summed up in one image
ELDL... Select Flight '26 qualification in hand! Far better Regionals weekend this year than last. Healthier, they could have finished at 4 or 5.
September 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
ELDL... Select Flight '26 qualification in hand! Far better Regionals weekend this year than last. Healthier, they could have finished at 4 or 5.
Of all the things O'Connor taught me, this simple little diagram has been of greatest political and pedagogical utility. Socialism is democratizing the right column (which radicalizes the left one.)
August 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Of all the things O'Connor taught me, this simple little diagram has been of greatest political and pedagogical utility. Socialism is democratizing the right column (which radicalizes the left one.)
Will a coyote cyborg companion do?
August 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Will a coyote cyborg companion do?
Midwest Ultimate tournaments... all the time, every summer
July 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Midwest Ultimate tournaments... all the time, every summer
So, this, only he's wearing it?
July 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
So, this, only he's wearing it?
All y'all talking about contradictions between forces and relations... how many work in a manner where 1) cooperation is both a force and relation and 2) forces are defined as instruments of labor - like Marx does...
June 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
All y'all talking about contradictions between forces and relations... how many work in a manner where 1) cooperation is both a force and relation and 2) forces are defined as instruments of labor - like Marx does...
The Marxist who wrote this passage from 1988 is interpreted by other ecoMarxists as embracing or advancing bourgeois, post-materialist new social movements... smh...
June 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The Marxist who wrote this passage from 1988 is interpreted by other ecoMarxists as embracing or advancing bourgeois, post-materialist new social movements... smh...
shocked, I tell you, that it's a typically miserable May day in Michigan... (this is from hint dot fm slash wind slash)
May 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
shocked, I tell you, that it's a typically miserable May day in Michigan... (this is from hint dot fm slash wind slash)
I think this might say something about ecoMarxist tendencies to uncritically use terms like the Anthropocene or planetary boundaries but, heck, what do Lewontin and Levins know? Amiright?
May 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I think this might say something about ecoMarxist tendencies to uncritically use terms like the Anthropocene or planetary boundaries but, heck, what do Lewontin and Levins know? Amiright?
I sometimes think Foster's disrespect knows no bounds. The 2016 article this is from engages in what can only be intentionally partial and aggressively inaccurate readings of anyone who approaches Marx at all differently than JBF and/or doesn't bow their head to the metabolic/ecological rift.
May 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I sometimes think Foster's disrespect knows no bounds. The 2016 article this is from engages in what can only be intentionally partial and aggressively inaccurate readings of anyone who approaches Marx at all differently than JBF and/or doesn't bow their head to the metabolic/ecological rift.