Capital
Trying to read the big Marx book. I didn't get very far before I gave up the liveblog.
The wanky philosophical area, where I try to get to grips with being a mind, existing under gender, and all that.
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Soft, like an adulteress
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.
Self-exciting gender instability
What should an adequate account of gender socialisation hope to prove? An analogy with fluid dynamics.
phyg
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.
dispatch from animation mine
On the mindset driving obsessive grinding to become an animator.
choosing the treasure that eats you
A meditation on purpose and human sacrifice.
this is also a move
The meaning of transitioning as a game we are collectively building (in which I accidentally do a Wittgenstein)
analogistically
or, the adventure of canmom on lysergic acid diethylamide
longue durée
Personal identity considered over the potentially infinite future of (post)humanity.
Demoscene why
I get philosophical about why demoparties are my ‘thing’ now.
A breakdown of 'We didn't start the Färjans'
A song inspires some digging into the cherished lore of the demoscene.
egregore metabolism
A musing on the nature and dynamics of animation studios and animator-minds is prompted by the new Glitch cartoon.