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PhD in math. bozo. she/it
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first they came for the logicians. then they came for the topologists.

large chunk of text, the relevant part reads: ā€œMovement happens because appearance and being slide over one another, are different yet the same, as if being were the loop and appearance were the twist in that loop that creates a Mƶbius strip. You simply can't tell where that twist begins. There is no nice little dotted line or city wall or hedgerow or concept of inside and outside that will tell you. A Mƶbius strip is a non-orientable surface, by which topology means that it has no inside or outside, no frontā€
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i knew youā€™d love this one

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philosophers read one book about logic before using the study of logic in a facile argument challenge [difficulty: impossible]

a photo of text from Timothy Mortonā€™s Humankind. It reads: 

But logic, with its "Law" of Noncontradiction and its consequent Law of the Excluded Middle, prohibits the very shades of gray that define small-l life as such. What does this tell us about logic? That it is, as Nietzsche argued, a product of the agricultural age (we live in a version of Mesopotamia) with its patriarchies and its caste systems.ā€
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civilians dying to bombs is bad, yes, but thereā€™s also things like politics and a superstructure to consider

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itā€™s basically that post thatā€™s like ā€œhow i defeated fascism with the power of love; chapter 1 the power of love: the first step in my journey was realizing that i could not defeat fascism with the power of love. chapter 2 the power of incredible violenceā€

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good to know. I ended up picking up ā€œThe Susan Stryker Readerā€ edited by McKenzie Wark and itā€™s been pretty solid/a good mix of her stuff. I was thinking of reading transgender history next, so Iā€™ll make sure to stick it out past the first chapter

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Fiona, Ɓine, BlƔnaid source: when I told my (Irish) mom I was considering changing my name to Helen she suggested I go with something more Irish like the above

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dudes rock

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thanks!

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Thanks for the rec, just read the essay. Itā€™s incredible. Also gave me some good ideas for how to handle my ā€œwell-meaningā€ cis friend who wants me to know my use of it/its pronouns makes her ā€œuncomfortableā€

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Helen
@homotoptheory.bsky.social
PhD in math. bozo. she/it
69 followers173 following296 posts