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“There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn’t that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life. Within it you watch [yourself] act out the present or possible organization of your nature. You can be aware of your own awareness of this nature as you never are at the moment of experience. The actor, by reiterating you, sacrifices a moment of his own life in order to give you a story of yours.”

—  Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (via irresistible-revolution)

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“In fact, the logical basis of judgment—subsiding a particular under a universal, recognizing something as an example of a rule—cannot be demonstrated. Thus judgment requires a principle to guide its application. In order to follow this principle another faculty of judgment would be needed, as Kant shrewdly noted. So it cannot be taught in the abstract but only practiced from case to case, and is therefore more an ability like the senses. It is something that cannot be learned, because no demonstration from concepts can guide the application of rules.”

- Hans-Georg Gadamer, “Transcending the Aesthetic Dimension” from Truth and Method

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The entertainment value of the experience depends on how the interactor relates to her avatar: will she be like an actor playing a role, innerly distanciated from her character and simulating emotions she does not really have, or will she experience her character in the first-person mode, actually feeling the love, hate, fears, and hopes that motivate the character's behavior, or the exhilaration, triumph, pride, melancholy, guilt, or despair that may result from her actions ? If we derive aesthetic pleasure from the tragic fate of literary characters such as Anna Karenina, Hamlet or Madame Bovary, if we cry for them and fully enjoy our tears, it is because our participation in the plot is a compromise between the first-person and the third-person perspective. We simulate mentally the inner life of these characters, we transport ourselves in imagination into their mind, but we remain at the same time conscious of being external observers. But in the Star Trek Holodeck, which is of course a fictional construct, the interactor experience emotions in the first person mode. Kathryn Janeway, the commander of the starship Enterprise, actually falls in love with Lord Burley, a computer-created character. This love prevents her from fulfilling her duties in the real world, and she ends up telling the computer to delete her virtual lover. If the blissful experience of loving and being loved in a virtual world causes adaptation problems when the interactor reenters reality, the alternatives plotlines seem even less desirable. Interactors would have to be out of their mind-literally and metaphorically--to want to submit themselves to the fate of a heroine who commits suicide as the result of a love affair turned bad, like Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina. Any attempt to turn empathy, which relies on mental simulation, into first-person, genuinely felt emotion would in the vast majority of cases trespass the fragile boundary that separates pleasure from pain.

http://www.gamestudies.org/0101/ryan/

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in your opinion, does G*d have a gender? do angels?

Nope! I’m pretty sure that gender, while occasionally convenient, is a wholly human invention. Like pants. Pants can be extremely useful! They come in different styles—jeans are pants, so are capris, and slacks, and skinny jeans, and this variety is all equally and wonderfully pants, and despite this I nevertheless prefer pants to skirts, but no one could suggest that pants are an innate quality of human nature or the universe as a whole.

Gender is, quite frankly, pants, and the idea that any divine creature wears pants or has a gender is a limiting proposition.

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Art is play that we do for an implied audience

What Hans-Georg Gadamer calls the "transformation into structure" marks the point where play takes on an aesthetic dimension. It becomes something that can be seen, interpreted, judged, and experienced by another. Playing is a prerequisite to dancing, sculpting, writing, designing, art-ing in general. It's one of the first lenses we can look through to reflect on what it means to be human.

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“Are you my mom?!”

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This is the first page of Island Book, coming in 2019 from First Second Books.

Finishing up coloring this week!!! working too much!!!!!!!

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This got me thinking a lot about personal experiences I've had. Teasing out the distinction between grief and trauma, for instance, isn't a thought I've thought before. I also have a father who grew up in New York in the 70s who was taking the subway alone going to Judo class by the age of 10. He and I have argued over the degree to which I (and perhaps even my generation) make tragedy into trauma, and there have been times where he has been insensitive, but there are others where I think he was just trying to get me to see the perspective being communicated here.

I count myself as very lucky to have had the safety and comfort I've had in my life, and in this way I am privileged in both the thankful and political senses of that word. I'm trying to weigh that while watching my response to this post, and don't think I'll have a firm view for quite some time.

Still, this is disrupting thought-patterns of mine that could probably use some disruption, and is helping me develop language for orthogonal thoughts I've been slowly working into language.

Reposting more as a 'note to self' than anything else, but thank you for sharing. This is clear and communicated with a lot of nuance, and I appreciate it.

My mom is from New York City. She was taking the subway alone at the age of six. As a young woman in the ‘70s, she went gallivanting God knows where until God knows when, and she (obviously) lived to talk about it.

At that time, as she tells it, the vanguard of women’s advancement was on her side. Go West, young woman! Get out there and seek your fortune. Dance all night and flirt with strangers – and if you want to do more than flirt, that’s no one’s business but yours. Ambient “everything is terrible and you’ll definitely get raped” messages were a relic of her Catholic parents and the associated Old Guard. They were framed, explicitly, as regressive, as part of the patriarchal structures that kept women’s heads down and their hands busy with housework. Defying them was what young Boomer womanhood was all about.

Keep reading

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Free PDF Books on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture

Found from various places online:

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Angela Y. Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis - Race, Women, and Class

The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America- Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks

Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks

outlaw culture - bell hooks

Faces at the Bottom of the Well - Derrick Bell

Sex, Power, and Consent - Anastasia Powell

I am Your Sister - Audre Lorde

Patricia Hill Collins - Black Feminist Thought

Gender Trouble - Judith Butler

Four books by Frantz Fanon

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Medical Apartheid - Harriet Washington

Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory  - edited by Michael Warner

Colonialism/Postcolonialism - Ania Loomba

Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault

The Gloria Anzaldua Reader

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

This Bridge Called by Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

What is Cultural Studies? - John Storey

Cultural Theory and Popular Culture - John Storey

The Disability Studies Reader

Michel Foucault - Interviews and Other Writings

Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 

Michel Foucault - The Archeology of Knowledge

This blog also has a lot more.

(Sorry they aren’t organized very well.)

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we are the Cows

and wen the sky

haf sent its chylde

from clouds up high

down to our playce

of field and grayne

we say well come

we lik the playne

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i just feel like you guys should see this thread about foxes

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I picked up a worm, and it wrote something in my hand with a tiny pencil. Unfortunately it was too small to read. An autograph? A spell? An angry note?

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🚨 The internet needs you 🚨

You’re up again, Tumblr. 

Back in 2015 you demanded that the FCC adopt strict net neutrality rules and establish a free and open internet. And you won. 

That should’ve been the end of it. But apparently not.

The new head of the FCC wants to undo the net neutrality protections you fought so hard for.

His proposed changes open the door to your web traffic being slowed down, or even blocked altogether. You could be forced to pay extra to use your favorite apps. You could even be prevented from getting news from the sources you trust.

Title II protects consumers and democracy by ensuring all voices can be heard.

You know the drill. Here’s what to do:

The FCC is taking comments from the public, and dearfcc.org is making it as simple as possible for you to make your voice heard.

Go there now 👉 dearfcc.org ✌️

You’ll just need to provide a name, an address, and then say a little bit about why rolling back Title II protections is a bad idea. If you’re not quite sure what to write, here’s something to get you started:

I’m writing to urge you to keep our Open Internet rules based on Title II in place. Without them, we could lose the internet as we know it.

The proposed changes to FCC rules would allow fast lanes for sites that pay, and force everyone else into slow lanes. We’ve already seen access to streaming services like Netflix, popular games like League of Legends, and communication platforms like FaceTime slowed down, or even blocked. Conditions like this hurt businesses large and small, and penalize the users who patronize them. 

The changes also open the door to unfair taxes on internet users, and could also make it harder for blogs, nonprofits, artists, and others who can’t pay up to have their voices heard.

Please leave the existing existing net neutrality rules based on Title II in place.

Thank you!

If you need more ammo, feel free to quote these experts from our net neutrality Issue Time. TechCrunch and Battle for the Net also have some good starters.

Everyone is counting on everyone else here. Do your part and tell the FCC to keep a free and open internet under Title II. 

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Transistor is so good! One of my faves. I bought Crypt of the Necrodancer for $1.99 yesterday and I could see myself dumping 50 hours into it. Very excited!

Just bought a bunch of games on Steam…

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i dont understand half of the words here but god if this isn’t the funniest thing i’ve ever read

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If Stuntmen from the old movies don’t have your full respect then I just don’t know what to say to you