chad black 💚
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Impostor. Latin America, Theory, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Horror, Monsters. Cycling, trail running, music. RDU, TYS, UIO, ABQ, BAL, SAN
This chapter in The Red Years and Nagasaki’s Phenomenology of Politics serve as a good reminder of the importance of collective action in the formation of new political possibilities. The movement is made in the streets.
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This chapter in The Red Years and Nagasaki’s Phenomenology of Politics serve as a good reminder of the importance of collective action in the formation of new political possibilities. The movement is made in the streets.
Today’s plane read.
October 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Today’s plane read.
Never go against a cycling fan when PEDs are on the line.
September 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Never go against a cycling fan when PEDs are on the line.
I kissed my original connection by hours, and did get rebooked, which I’m thankful for. Of course, it would be nice to have a seat back pocket for my water bottle. Alas.
September 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I kissed my original connection by hours, and did get rebooked, which I’m thankful for. Of course, it would be nice to have a seat back pocket for my water bottle. Alas.
The Rock is definitely prepping for the role of a lifetime in a Michel Foucault biopic
September 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The Rock is definitely prepping for the role of a lifetime in a Michel Foucault biopic
All history is a history of the present
August 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
All history is a history of the present
There’s even a chart! Of the instances of monstruo categorized by what is described as monstrous in late 18th and early 19th century periodicals in the Spanish Americas. Turns out politics and political violence became the monster.
August 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
There’s even a chart! Of the instances of monstruo categorized by what is described as monstrous in late 18th and early 19th century periodicals in the Spanish Americas. Turns out politics and political violence became the monster.
Happy for this article to be in the wild at last. In it, I look at the use of the language of horror in a speech delivered by the president of the audiencia of Quito in 1780.
August 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Happy for this article to be in the wild at last. In it, I look at the use of the language of horror in a speech delivered by the president of the audiencia of Quito in 1780.
Oh look, ProQuest is doing it to dissertations too...
August 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Oh look, ProQuest is doing it to dissertations too...
Today in bird drama, the biggest of our neighborhood red tail hawks just flew into the window talons first, then stared us down perched on a wall.
July 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Today in bird drama, the biggest of our neighborhood red tail hawks just flew into the window talons first, then stared us down perched on a wall.
The hawk always seems to be stirring up drama and yells at everyone from atop the highest pine tree in the yard. The hummingbirds visit my office window every morning and look at me between flowers.
July 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The hawk always seems to be stirring up drama and yells at everyone from atop the highest pine tree in the yard. The hummingbirds visit my office window every morning and look at me between flowers.
Obsidian's graph view isn't really useful for research for me, but it is fun sometimes to look at a graphical representation of years of my note-taking and document transcriptions this way.
July 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Obsidian's graph view isn't really useful for research for me, but it is fun sometimes to look at a graphical representation of years of my note-taking and document transcriptions this way.
Got proofs for this upcoming article today. Looking forward to it coming out. I can almost guarantee it's the only colonial Latin American history article you're gonna find that references Ligotti, Hegel, Lacan, Freud, Marx, Feijoo, and Karatani. 😂
May 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Got proofs for this upcoming article today. Looking forward to it coming out. I can almost guarantee it's the only colonial Latin American history article you're gonna find that references Ligotti, Hegel, Lacan, Freud, Marx, Feijoo, and Karatani. 😂
Happy to be in my new neighborhood.
May 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Happy to be in my new neighborhood.
Saw Sinners tonight. During the main juke joint music pieces, I kept thinking of the art of Durham-native Ernie Barnes.
April 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Saw Sinners tonight. During the main juke joint music pieces, I kept thinking of the art of Durham-native Ernie Barnes.
Will they be shocked to learn that manufacturing in the age of automation actually looks like this...?
April 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Will they be shocked to learn that manufacturing in the age of automation actually looks like this...?
Fascist think manufacturing will come back to the US and will look something like this...
April 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Fascist think manufacturing will come back to the US and will look something like this...
Up next… Helen Rollins’ Psychocinema.
March 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Up next… Helen Rollins’ Psychocinema.
Not one person involved in this merch stopped to ask...
March 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Not one person involved in this merch stopped to ask...
In 2002/2003, I worked at the Archivo Nacional del Ecuador on dissertation research, the first person their to digitize my entire source base. I took photos of every page of every case I used and then some. Backed everything up on hard disk and on CDs. This is that collection.
January 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
In 2002/2003, I worked at the Archivo Nacional del Ecuador on dissertation research, the first person their to digitize my entire source base. I took photos of every page of every case I used and then some. Backed everything up on hard disk and on CDs. This is that collection.
The core issue in the article is the administrative attack on genuine faculty governance, a trend that is institutionally agnostic and often worse at less elite schools.
January 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The core issue in the article is the administrative attack on genuine faculty governance, a trend that is institutionally agnostic and often worse at less elite schools.
The main goal of the seminar is to consider the question, "What were the stakes of the global conjuncture of 1968?" Here's the reading list in order.
January 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The main goal of the seminar is to consider the question, "What were the stakes of the global conjuncture of 1968?" Here's the reading list in order.
Oh, looks like I got blocked.
December 5, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Oh, looks like I got blocked.
At the office early on this final day of class for the Fall 2024 semester.
December 3, 2024 at 12:21 PM
At the office early on this final day of class for the Fall 2024 semester.