mind reader is a blog and bookmarking project against capitalism. In our contemporary reality, capitalism and its capitalists loom large as dangerous figures – yet are often not perceived as such due to the crushing power of hegemony. This blog, based on the opinions of Aidan Cornelius-Bell, is an attempt at educational and radical praxis in the modern world. Think socialist zine but digital – and with less cool art.
The website deploys praxis (theory/practice) at the nexus of historical materialism, Gramscian social science, and social reproduction theory (SRT), which is sorely needed against capitalist hegemony (and racists and sexists garbed in purportedly “orthodox Marxism” – no unintended shade to the true Marxist “orthodoxy”). Importantly, though, Dispatches expand theory in current real world contexts. In this way, the project contributes somewhat to the ongoing growth of the Marxist critique project started in the 1800s.
Things here are not supposed to be taken too seriously, and there are a boatload of disclaimers I could add. But note that for legal purposes any views expressed directly on this website are my own and not reflective of those of any employers, colleagues or affiliates. Links provided remain the views and intellectual property of their respective owners, and these owners may not endorse other views, comments or perspectives advanced on this website.
About Aidan
Please see this page for more information. If you need to get in touch you are welcome to contact Aidan here.
Email and RSS
Since 2017 there has been growing interest in “email blogs” for reasons somewhat beyond me. However, I understand that some people prefer to have things delivered straight to them. In the spirit of enabling this, this website offers a Buttondown email for all new Dispatches. Learn more here.
You may also receive updates via RSS, a technology from way back in 1999 (anyone else remember Netscape?). There are two kinds of RSS for this website. The first is a feed of everything you see on the home page – Dispatches and Bookmarks, and a feed of Dispatches only – in full text, so you never have to come back to this site again (should you wish). These feeds are discoverable in the normal way, or by clicking the links on the home page.
Meta, Copyright, and Machine Learning
This website runs on a linode vps in Sydney, Australia – Gadigal land. It is distributed globally by Cloudflare. The stack is hand made, leveraging a combination of MariaDB, Ruby on Rails, nginx, and myriad open source software atop Debian Linux. There’s RSS feeds available in all the right places, and an API which you can access on request.
Writings here are licensed for modification and redistribution, but not by corporations. Content may be included in Large Language Model training data on the condition that it’s eventual use is for non-commercial purposes. Images are from Unsplash and fonts are from Adobe (though offlined to remove tracking).
© 2024 by Aidan Cornelius-Bell under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike license. Website code is GNU/GPL and (should be, if I’ve done it right) accessible by cloning arelpe.git on this website.