Capital
Trying to read the big Marx book. I didn't get very far before I gave up the liveblog.
Capitalism? Fuckin blows. Find here some desperate attempts to get some sort of handle on the whole gendered nightmare.
Trying to read the big Marx book. I didn't get very far before I gave up the liveblog.
A passing exchange in an old D&D webcomic inspires an attempt to synthesise several lines of thought on the position and significance of ‘trans women’ and other camab gender-variant people, in a variety of historical and social contexts.
What should an adequate account of gender socialisation hope to prove? An analogy with fluid dynamics.
My history on the periphery of various cults, notably Less Wrong and Marxism-Leninism, and an attempt to theorise what makes cults form and tentatively grasp to how they might be avoided.
On the mindset driving obsessive grinding to become an animator.
A meditation on purpose and human sacrifice.
The meaning of transitioning as a game we are collectively building (in which I accidentally do a Wittgenstein)
or, the adventure of canmom on lysergic acid diethylamide
Personal identity considered over the potentially infinite future of (post)humanity.
I get philosophical about why demoparties are my ‘thing’ now.
A song inspires some digging into the cherished lore of the demoscene.
A musing on the nature and dynamics of animation studios and animator-minds is prompted by the new Glitch cartoon.