• A Brief Excursus on Typography and Citational Practice

    I have—as a complete, rank, amateur— taken up the hobby of learning typesetting and book design over the last 8 or 9 months. I have had, though, this interest reaching back several years. When I wrote my dissertation, for reasons entirely of personal vanity—I wanted it to appear longer, even though it was already a…

  • The Cultural Logic of Late Colonialism

    There is term which I find myself frequently used and which I believe needs clarification: the chronotrope (xронотоп) of “late colonialism,” or the condition of the “late colonial.” For this I draw on four scholars, two Native and two non-Native, as well as additional influences, to carve out my working definition. Most directly, I first…

  • Masks Off: Treaties, Rights, and Their Ideological Function

    I woke up a few days ago to the news that sites within Miꞌkmaꞌki were burning.  My kin in Wāpanahkēw have been under siege by white, settler-colonial forces who have engaged in blatant and open acts of anti-Native violence for several days, and this news from the East is just the latest in a line…