Rory

I’ve reached the ‘making a French press at my desk’ stage of thesis writing—weirdly looking forward to making other folks coffee too.

Thought a workshop was this afternoon, turns out it started already because it was always set to start in the morning and wishful thinking doesn’t bear on the relentless flow of time, so consequently I am late, I am stressed, I am embarrassed.

Just one more tear to cry, one teardrop from my ey-ye…

Would venture a guess that it’s a myriad of often intersecting reasons—such is the complexity of people—but can’t help but think decades of liberal/neolib individualism rather than collectivism has at least given the foundation for objectivistic social politics where mutual-care is disincentivised.

It cannot be overstated how important free-writing is in the process of research, which is something I am continually learning and re-learning, to collect your thoughts and drag them into the light, so to speak. Free-write more, supplement and support with reading, not the other way around.

Yep. I mean, I don’t think / know that it should be controversial to suggest that we can learn from past sociopolitical movements without endorsing every aspect of them, and a big part of critical revaluation is becoming comfortable with that, putting things in their “right” place, as it were.

I feel like readings of Dworkin have been so reactionary and in such bad faith for so long, so I’m happy we’re having a good faith critical revaluation, cos lord, when homie cooked she cooked with gas.

“There is a short answer and a long answer. The short answer is that I blame Lewis. The longer answer is that I still blame Lewis, but for deeper and more interesting reasons […]” Kadri Vihvelin is the best. I hope she’s having a fantastic day.

Hope it feels gratifying! Must have been very cool to open that front page and see that nod of confidence, especially from Fricker herself. Legend supporting another legend, there!

Fantastic!

Philosophy of staying in my own lane and taking a damn nap core

Immediately going back to bed is so underrated

Well hey, worked out! ❤️

Thank God. Also: how the actual hell did you write your thesis with 500 words of notes did it involve a Faustian bargain and where do I sign

Chat, is a day of transcribing, like, 4,000 words of notes something I should / can count as a win today? Cos that’s 4,000 words that will be of use—touch wood—but all I have to show for it is my own transcription.

Bison: "Ah! Doctor Dhalsim! How is your research today?"

Dr. Dhalsim: "The same. Warped. Corrupted. My science twisted to serve perversion instead of peace."

Bison: "Tell you what - after I've crushed my enemies, we'll see about getting you published. That should cheer you up, hmm?"

Gisèle Pelicot: “I’ve Given Myself Permission To Be Happy” It was the story that ignited fury and empathy in women across the globe. Now, in Gisèle Pelicot’s first UK interview since her ex-husband was convicted of habitually drugging and raping her, along wi...

Just a remarkable person - well worth reading the whole interview:

Utterly dystopian, and clearer than ever that wearable tech and bio-tech like implanted chips being marketed as futuristic and sci-fi-esque have always, always been intended to make robo-cops out of us all, willingly or not.

Can’t wait for Change 3D

If any of youse is in 40GS at the moment and fancies a change of scenery and a nice view, 9.18 is where I’m at, and you definitely will not have to fight for space…

Photo of a meeting room empty of people but for the user’s laptop, notebook, pen, and takeaway cup of coffee.

Fantastic showing at the writing retreat today! (I am alone.)

I think it was similar for me—I didn’t start growing in confidence again until honours, which I think is when I actually started developing study skills, and the smaller seminar groups were a massive, massive help.

I went from a grading average of 99% and graduating top of my class to my first uni midterm getting a 47 and being told I strawmanned Aristotle, which is hilarious now—and in hindsight, a very fair critique—and had to be humbled like that to learn any even passable work ethic.

I remember the uncomfortable gap between the app being made unavailable and before YouTube launched their own app, and having to use some heretical third party app as to avoid <shudder> the horrors of YouTube on a mobile web client.

And maybe like Rick Grimes they’ll explode him on a bridge (or causeway…) and have him—surprise! He survived!—kidnapped by newly introduced Trash Queen with an angular haircut and cheekbones that could cut a diamond in half, via helicopter, setting up a spin-off to stream exclusively on, idk, ITV X.

If I were to hazard a guess as to where it’s going in III though, I think the Jimmys’ were a bit of a red herring, and the real villain(s) (er, not implying that the Jimmys’ “charity” was, y’know, not villainous) will turn out to be Jamie and the islanders, who may be a wee bit culty themselves.

It is strange to me though that they put so much importance on Sir Lord Jimmy—both in the backstory, environmental storytelling, etc—only to double back and decide the character was so easily expendable to the broader plot of the trilogy, where by the end of Temple the Jimmys’ didn’t really matter.

Plus, cos I liked the environmental storytelling of Years (w/ the ‘Jimmy is coming’—I seem to remember that’s what it said?—scratched into a wall, etc) I would have had Spike draw attention to it, and Jamie maybe sort-of shrug it off, so the Jimmys’ showing up didn’t feel as out of left field.

Yeah, I agree. I think the introduction of the Jimmys’ in Years was only because Years started with SL Jimmy, but I think Garland and Boyle probably could have pushed it and Temple could have started with Spike getting Jimmynapped, and Temple could have continued as it did.

We’re running on a serious deficit of bone temples in academic philosophy, and I think we really need to think about that.