In the opening of #SilenceinTheLibrary, a sign post reads: "xeno biology/art"
Zeno is attributed through Aristotle as the originator of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox.
Art as the the paradox of life.
Moffat, you are worse than Dr. Swift.
To quote The Doctor "Snap!"
@lisamcmullini I saw Babylon--very good. though, uh, the reflective, ultimately hopeful, reflection of form in on itself: Who did it first.
That's not true, because that's sorta--the act of narrative interpretation-- humans always do that, that's like our thing. Reflection.
So please feel menaced by the hopeful status of the human condition. It's spooky, the preservative of hood. OooOOOoo.
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[seriously even the ghost is happy? I'm trying to be menacing!]
#esperantonate
@lisamcmullin, I've got nothing this month, except, dude the philosophy department at Bristol—perhaps there is some terror in the fact I'm being trained to be a metaphysician and thus becoming more menacing just as a baseline—but golly, this building. (1/4)
There's a minimally epistemically menacing American, whose sardonic humour has begun to insinuate itself into some of her lecturers ad hoc answers. Apparently the sentiment "and then everyone just cries," is incredibly understandable to the average academic. (3/4)
@lisamcmullin
Sorry this is late. You monthly epistemic menacing. Loads I could say re: POTD, but more I thought a different angle may be better so:
Philosophy programmes: very sexist even in 2022. Not ideal. (1/3)
So please live with the fact, the world is better because you were kind, and one time talked to some kid about empire and trinitarian dualism.
Also, I do stand up comedy now. So that's a fact about the world you can also live in fear of. (4/4)
@lisamcmullin
#esperantonate
And honestly, what is more terrifying than knowing one's career, merely by virtue of its existence is causing other, younger people to have an easier time forging their own paths? I stand in terror of the day I might receive this kind of note, if I ever do. (3/4)
@lisamcmullin
To be very clear, I still think the Taylor Swift discography is wonderfully "gay shit" whether or not Dr. Swift is. I love the albums my friends and I swooned over have adopted enough ambiguity that we all see ourselves in those depictions of romance. Also such bops. Boppinest.
Does the need for Taylor Swift to be gay, originate from a similar point of struggling to love Harry Potter in light of recent rhetorics? Queerness as a politic, seems so unable to non-uniformly separate art from author, that I'm wondering if my mum can come pick me up?
I got told tonight that street photography was illegal. When I asked for the statue as I consider myself well read, the man, a security personnel of a private establishment, taking issue with my conduct on public land. Processed to ask if I'd studied this for two years?
I never see people on the internet who, in discussions of colonialism, are both fully willing and able to accept the guilt and shame of the coloniser and experience the grief and shame of the colonised. And it makes me wonder who truly will arbitrate these things.