Thoughts

  • Interview with a Medical Device Engineer

    Interview with a Medical Device Engineer

    Pleased to share the transcription for an interview I did for Vital Signs magazine, a publication by and for hospital workers in Bristol, UK. We touched on numerous topics, including global supply chains, the abstraction of hospital labor into monetary concerns, engineer and scientists subjectivities, worker organizing, medical device design paradigms, speculation about communism, and more.


  • Fixed Capital

    Fixed Capital

    Short reflections on a recent factory visit of mine. Published in the Futon section of Strange Matters issue 2.


  • Red May 2023: We Have Never Been Post-Industrial

    Red May 2023: We Have Never Been Post-Industrial

    I recently organized a panel talk with my friends and collaborators Wendy Liu, Phil Neel, and Anette Ramos. Link inside.


  • A Tale of Two Engineer-Artisans

    A Tale of Two Engineer-Artisans

    Anecdotes about coffee and wine. Making a case for why artisans and engineers have more overlap than people think.


  • Productive Distribution: Speculation on Communist Manufacturing by Volume

    Productive Distribution: Speculation on Communist Manufacturing by Volume

    Preliminary charting of dialectic between decentralized high mix low volume production and centralized low mix high volume production in a speculative communist society


  • Inside vs. Outside: The Proletarian Composition Problem

    Inside vs. Outside: The Proletarian Composition Problem

    Communism is not the restructuring of capitalism’s distribution of goods, but a complete overhaul of how and why they are produced in the first place. This tendency of capital towards deindustrialized workforces reduces the proportion of workers that are positioned to enact this fundamental productive transformation in a revolutionary situation. This is one of the central problematics of modern communism: the…


  • Design For Manufracture

    Design For Manufracture

    In engineering, there is a paradigm called DFM: “design for manufacture”. The idea is that engineers must not only design objects to be functional, but to also be amenable to their intended manufacturing process. The physical properties of any industrially created object are contingent upon the capitalist context that brings them into being. These objects do not exist in a vacuum,…