In Nietzsche’s philosophy, the eternal return is a concept with many interpretations. One starting point, which should be quickly complicated, is the common understanding of Nietzsche’s concept. The common understanding — or misunderstanding — of Nietzsche’s eternal return is to imagine time as a circle. If time were a circle…

By Mateo Candelaria (They/ Them) Often on my blog, I talk about the process of becoming. Becoming-Warewolf. Becoming-Rhizome. Becoming-Ambigous. My blog work tends to focus on fiction through a lens of critical theory — primarily the work of Delueze and Guattari, and more recently, Mark Fisher and Simone De Beauvoir. …

Introduction Last month, I started a series as a way for me to write about the things I’m reading. I called this series, unceremoniously, my “reading report”. …

By Mateo Candelaria 2/1/22 Now that the end of January is starting to approach, I wanted to write a more casual post about some of the texts I’ve been reading this year. My goal for 2022 is to read at least 100 texts — which I am very loosely interpreting…

Out of all the moral questions posed in Pixar’s Ratatouille — “Is stealing food okay?, “Is talent acquired from hard work and persistence, or is it something someone already possesses?”, or in other words, “can anyone cook?” …

By Mateo Candelaria (They/Them) 12.2.21 Last time I left off, I looked at how magic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer operates as a form of Deluezian-Guattarianian desire — moving through bodies, compelling subjects to act on magics whims, and possessing subjects to be a spectator in their own bodies. …

By Mateo Candelaria (They/ Them) 9.8.2020 Anytime I sit down to write about skateboarding, or skateboarding videos, I am often left at an impasse. Skateboarding videos are rich with text — visual language, stylized fashion, geographeries, aesthetics, and gendered expression. Yet, many skateboarding videos are also aggressively trying to say…