Thursday, April 30, 2026

Real Terms, No Context: Vols. 31-40: The Alphabetized Collection

actor fictions

actuality humor

adjudicative competence

backcasting

bibelots

blind buying

Broadcast English

characterizational confirmation

chimpanzee mandibles

cider-press bed stones

circulations of affect

collective narcissism

columnar basalt

cognitive tunneling

complacent myopia

comprehensive destruction

Confessionalization

contamination sensitivity

context mapping

contingency management

criminogenic need

Deep Canvas

debitage

design justice

digital religion

emotions wheel

epistemic humility

experiential focusing

face-pulling

fawn response

felt sense

fluxgate gradiometer

form constants

futures cone

gender plenitude

glacial erratics

glitch studies

good questioning

grievability

himpathy

horizon scanning

hospicing modernity

human person

jail-based restoration

liberatory foresight

lithics

male fusion

Massive Resistance

Mayday Trust

morbus mediterraneus

narrative humility

native copper

neuroception

next society

normative paradox

nucleomituphobia

obscurations

performative iconicity

perspectival perversion

physical theater

pluriverse

police psychology

polyopic repetition

polyvagal music

post-normal times

powerscope

prairie realism

primary afflictions

prospective thinking

protopia

radical nonduality

radish girl

reality testing

relational governance

representational force

restorative nostalgia

RUMVADER

Running Medicine Repentance

rural purge

selving

shaligrams

signals practice

sociokarma

solastalgia

soothing presence

speculative archaeology

Sportianity

state feminism

status satisfaction

strategic empathy

sublation

thaumatrope

transinstitutionalization

transmedial constructs

trickster analytic

triple refuge

undercranking

Usonian house

vegetarian hall

vulgar humanism

Thursday, March 19, 2026

New Essay on "Matewan" for Perisphere

I wrote about John Sayles' great historical strike drama Matewan and the film's place in the history of labor cinema for Perisphere, the Trylon Cinema's blog.

On the Road to Matewan – Perisphere

The film will be playing March 22-24 as part of the Trylon's series "Bad Company: 19 Films Featuring Evil Corporations"

Friday, February 6, 2026

Acronym Collectors Tribune (ACT): issue sixteen

HIP

     See Healthy Indiana Program


SIBs

     See Social Impact Bonds


MADE

     See Modernized Anti-Racist Data Ecosystems


CUP

     See Committee of Union and Progress


CAP

     See corrective action plan

Friday, January 16, 2026

Real Terms, No Context: Vol. 40

criminogenic need

performative iconicity

confessionalization

Mayday Trust

state feminism

RUMVADER

transinstitutionalization

contingency management

relational governance

police psychology

Friday, December 5, 2025

Acronym Collectors Tribune (ACT): issue fifteen

EPIC

    See Ethical Policing is Courageous


CUB

     See Caring for You and Baby


PACES

     See Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences


IoWA

     See Integration of Working models of Attachment


STRIDES

     See Strategies that Result in Developing Emotional Stability

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Acronym Collectors Tribune (ACT): issue fourteen

MAD 

     See mutually assured destruction


STAR

     See Supervision to Aid Reentry


TANs

     See transnational advocacy networks


ABLE

     See Active Bystander for Law Enforcement


SAM

     See System for Award Management

Friday, October 10, 2025

Real Terms, No Context: Vol. 39

normative paradox

radical nonduality

powerscope

circulations of affect

next society

soothing presence

actor fictions

sublation

experiential focusing

narrative humility

Real Terms, No Context: Vols. 31-40: The Alphabetized Collection

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