The More It Happens, the More It Happens: A Field Guide to Accelerationist Vocabulary
Six terms defined properly, from deterritorialization and real subsumption to hyperstition and the fork between repurposing the machines and unleashing them.
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Browse page 8 of Adam DJ Brett's blog archive with posts on web development, digital publishing, teaching, and project updates.
Who Paid for the Speed: Reading Accelerationism Against the Grain
An antiracist and decolonial analysis of accelerationist theory, running from the slave ship Zong through Yuk Hui’s cosmotechnics to the mine under every clean interface.
A New Toolbox: Theory as a Lens on the Practice You Call Best
Theory as a toolbox: seven lenses for looking again at the practice you call best.
What is American Pragmatism
American pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that emerged in the United States in the 1870s, first among the members of the Cambridge Metaphysical Club (Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Chauncey Wright, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.) and then developed by John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, and later figures.
A Summer of Plumbing: JCRT, KC Works, and the Build Awesome Builds
What changed under the hood at jcrt.org this summer: 829 DOIs through KC Works, a faster and quieter Eleventy build, and the Editorial-style sidebar I finally got right.
A Cable of Many Fibers: An Overview of Pragmatism for Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
An accessible graduate-level overview of pragmatism's major thinkers, contested lineages, theories of truth and inquiry, and uses for humanities and social-science research.
Five Lessons Indieweb Developers Can Learn from Ken Hawkins
I tried browser-side semantic search on thewhitestonefoundation.org after reading Ken Hawkins, measured it against my actual readers, and replaced it with Pagefind. The idea was still right.
TIDEL Conference: Racial Justice in the Digital Public Square Presentation
Meet me in NYC — the TIDEL Symposium, October 1
The 11th Annual Haudenosaunee Wooden Stick Festival Weekend: A Dinner, a Run, and the Creator's Game at Onondaga Lake
September 11–13, 2026: the Alfie Jacques Ambassador Award Dinner, the Restore Our Sacred Lake 5K, and the 11th Annual Haudenosaunee Wooden Stick Festival return to Onondaga Lake. Here's what to know.
Two Domains, One Build: Hosting .ngo and .ong Together with Eleventy and xmit
The small deployment breakthrough that let me serve one complete Eleventy site at both aila.ngo and aila.ong without turning either domain into a redirect.
Writing Support Resources
Free supports for academic writing: weekly writing communities, the Academic Phrasebank, citation alerts, and tools your university library already provides.
Apps and Tools for Research and Writing
A guided tour of free and low-cost apps for reference management, distraction-free writing, note-taking, and time management for doctoral and academic writers.