Thoughts on production, alienation, and ideology
These are posts on blogging from the blog Base and Superstructure. Mostly these are meta-blogging posts, where I’ll be writing a bit about what it’s like to run a blog.
A half decade flies by when you’re having fun! Or when a…*checks notes* pandemic happens in the middle of it!?
Anyway, yeah. Here we are. It’s once again time for an anniversary post! Indeed, lots of things happened in the last year. And as I review the past year, I’ll answer the big questions first.
For readers not already aware, I want to announce that I now have a profile page on Medium! Click here to check it out.
You’ll notice that most of the content on the Medium page started as a blog post here at Base and Superstructure. That, of course, isn’t a coincidence!
With the Medium profile, I want to reach a broader audience than the one I reach at the blog. But I’m still looking to write on roughly the same themes. So, I got my start by taking a fresh look at some of the original content from this blog and then reworking it. At times I’ve even rethought some of my views after discussion with readers.
So, what this means, in the short term, is that readers have two options for reading new content from me.
You can read this blog or Medium! This blog will continue to feature most of my completely new content, while Medium will feature a combination of new content and reworked and/or rewritten posts from Base and Superstructure.
How does that sound?
In over 4 years of blogging, I’ve discussed lots of terminology, especially leftist terminology. I try to use terms in a consistent way that people within leftist debates understand.
However, like all analytic philosophers, I occasionally see the need to clarify terms. Some terms stand in need of tidying. Some of them a lot of it. Every now and then, I provide new (and hopefully better!) definitions for familiar terms. And at other times, I use more obscure terms, repurpose terms for new uses, or just create new ones.
And so, I find a need for a blog lexicon! I’ll use this post as an opportunity to collect lots of these terms in the same place. As a bonus, if I introduce additional terms in the future, I can add them to the lexicon.
At the end of the year, it’s time to write another year in review. I hope 2022 treated readers well! And for any newer readers, please do check out our previous reviews from 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018.
For the quick version, I feel pretty good about 2022! For this post, let’s take a look at how things have been going here in the Base and Superstructure blogging world. And perhaps tease a bit of a preview for what’s coming in 2023.
I might start this post by pointing out, as have so many Native Americans, that the real story of the holiday of Thanksgiving doesn’t match the history people in the U.S. give it.
As for the blog, it’s time for an end of year note. Like past years, I’ll take a break around the holidays. My plan is to keep the regular schedule of about two posts per week through early December. And then the second half of December will be a lot slower.
I hope readers have a chance to take a break around the holidays as well.
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