What is Identity?

In short, I have discussed identity as something inscribed upon a person, but the nature of that inscription has been left somewhat blank. That’s primarily due to the complicated nature of identity: people are free to behave as they will, but what we will is somewhat pre-determined. This isn’t to say that we aren’t free to choose things, but that our identity makes it more likely that we will choose different things.

Analysis, Written by: CameronCameron SummersFebruary 16, 2022Identity, Dis-Identity Politics, Deleuze and Guattari, Alphaville, Jean-Luc Goddard, Peter Cheyney, hard boiled fiction, Film Noir, Translation, OODA loop, Machinic Unconscious, Navajo Nation, Surrealism, Animal CognitionComment

The American Blindspot

One thing that I feel explains not only a great deal of why so many well-meaning young people fail to grasp the nature of the world around them, but also why so much American political discourse is utterly useless: Americans simply cannot do anything like a materialist analysis of current events.

Commentary, AnalysisCameron SummersOctober 14, 2020Materialist Analysis, James Baldwin, Karl Marx, Murray Bookchin, Navajo Nation, Food Desert, climate change, Uber, Zombie Firms, TRASHFUTURE, Libertarianism, Gavrilo Princip, Basil Zaharoff, America, Native AmericansComment