I got my my PhD in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley in 1998 where I spent a lot of time reading and writing about Nietzsche, Deleuze, Kierkegaard, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty as well as the films of Godard, Cassavetes, and David Lynch. I taught adjunct in the department for many years and then a few more years teaching critical theory to MFAs at the SF Art Institute. But displeased with academia, I've been writing independently and doing a series of podcasts. I wrote a nifty little book called "Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Sense" published by Zero Books.