Category: Structures of Interaction
snapshots of the moment (a podcast)
Organizing Required
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… Read more...“This is my job. If I’m being asked to do more than my job, I can say no. If they fire me, they’re — that’s like way worse for most employers. So you do have a lot
Babel (Part 2): The Necessity of Violence
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… Read more...“Part of what the author has documented scholarly throughout this entire fantasy, historical alternative reading of history is the potential that is unleashed or released when terms from different languages are uttered into a space or are inscribed,
Babel (Part 1): An Arcane Translators Revolution
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… Read more...“As so often happens in stories like these, the only offensive choice they have in the face of what I’m reading to be an insurmountable enemy, something — the only offensive action they can take is self-destruction, and
Adventures of the Body
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… Read more...“So the priorities are shifting. When you’re younger, your mind and soul feel more important than your body. But now that you as an individual are getting older, your body is making a claim for some priority space
Ideology and Imagination
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… Read more...“It’s like it needs to be imaginary before it becomes real. Well, there’s like a cyclical, the chicken and the egg, which was first? I guess reality was probably first, but it can’t — for us to interact
The Topic of Death
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… Read more...“So he wants to die deliberately and he’s considering who to ask. These, I presume, are people or gods with whom he is close. The choices strike me as having an inherent performative quality. If he’s a god,
National Insecurity
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… Read more...“…what does classified information do? I think the metaphor that we’re intended to bring to it is war, spying, national secrets, and the vulnerabilities of huge things like infrastructure. I imagine that the individual instances of it are
“What’s crazier–plants speaking, or humans listening?”
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An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 318-322, read by Steph.
… Read more...“A lot of evidence suggests that group loyalty interferes with reason.”
Maidenhair and Watchman trade smirks, like he’s just told them that science has
In-group Realignment
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An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 232-238, read by Steph.
Transcript:
… Read more...Four years at Fortuna College come down to one afternoon: Adam in his spot in the front row, Daniels Auditorium. Professor Rubin Rabinowski at