Welcome to Erratic Attempts, a blog about culture and politics. Nothing here is supposed to be perfect, nothing final, everything up for eventual rethinking.

This substack is a variant of my blog erraticattempts.com, and intertwined with its parent site, philjohn.com, containing my poetry, photography, music and an older blog.


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Dr. Philipp Kneis teaches cultural and political theory at Oregon State University and the University of Tübingen, with a focus on democracy, political theory, global diversity and human rights. He also writes poetry and music.