kel smith

Endless questions with a few answers Exploring post-capitalist ideology in the capitalist vortex black hole I realize recently that I use writing to process things that I don’t understand, and while I’ll never run out of questions to ask, many of the big questions that I’ve spent the last few years uncovering – around capitalism… Read more: Endless questions with a few answers

Harvesting Arugula Seeds I have had little time for writing lately, or even much interest in it. I am busy in the world, trying my best to do the things I write about and live an intentional life full of practice. Any gardener or farmer will be able to tell you what life looks like… Read more: Harvesting Arugula Seeds

The Unsquashable Local Food Dream I have this dream. It’s been hanging around in my mind for a few years and I can’t quite shake it. I envision urban spaces where we grow food to feed the community. Raised beds on empty parking lots. Small scale farms in front of industrial complexes. In my dream,… Read more: The Unsquashable Local Food Dream

Capitalism and Addiction Thesis: What if the reason that we can’t move beyond our current state of capitalism is because the behaviours that are normalized and reinforced within this system are addictive? I’m not talking about doom scrolling and online shopping, but the underlying systems that creates those types of behaviours. Let’s pan out. Under… Read more: Capitalism and Addiction

Forty Five Today is my birthday and I have successfully navigated another trip around the sun, bringing my total to 45. This feels like a significant number, though I suppose no more than any other, except that the trips seem to be happening more and more quickly as of late. I’m told that this only… Read more: Forty Five

The Snack Potluck Patch Swap Yesterday I held a snack potluck patch swap. I had been inspired by online friends who had held a patch swap (I threw the snack potluck in there myself because who doesn’t love sharing snacks) and put a call out on Instagram to see if there was local folks who… Read more: The Snack Potluck Patch Swap

The Algorithm and AI have killed my writing practice When I started writing this blog back in 2021, I had a clear intention to share ways in which I had worked to deconstruct and opt out of some of the harmful practices of the status quo under capitalism. I started with education, because that was… Read more: The Algorithm and AI have killed my writing practice

There is a common tendency to treat post-capitalism as something that arrives after or later. It is framed as a future stage; something that follows crisis, collapse, or transition. Capitalism is understood as the present condition; post-capitalism as what replaces it. This framing assumes a linear trajectory. One system gives way to another, and history… Read more: Post-capitalism is not what comes after

Rest is commonly understood as the absence of work: a period of withdrawal, inactivity, or disengagement intended to restore energy. Within contemporary work culture, this form of rest typically appears as recovery from exhaustion—time taken after periods of sustained effort in order to return to baseline functioning. This definition is insufficient. If rest is defined… Read more: Redefining Rest

In a world that tries to serve us absolute truths, it’s important to embrace multiplicity. It is true that atrocities are committed by our governments, and we should not turn a blind eye to the damage done in the name of our freedomANDOur brains and bodies are not meant to hold the sheer volume of… Read more: Multiplicity and the Current State of Things