
The Cult of Power
There’s the bare bones architecture of power. Then, there’s the tissue for what that particular iteration of power looks like in that particular intersection of time & space. And then, there’s the sociology of power that

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There’s the bare bones architecture of power. Then, there’s the tissue for what that particular iteration of power looks like in that particular intersection of time & space. And then, there’s the sociology of power that

What if the question of free will or determinism was flawed to begin with? What if this is why the question persists? Why it's been debated, for-ever? What if unfurling & reintegrating our understanding shifts the camera

Overt power is easier to identify. What about when power intentionally makes itself more covert, more palatable? What about when power becomes the substrate; infiltrating perceptions, language, thinking & reasoning? When

Power uses hierarchies for control & influence. I think morals conceptualized within environments of power are tainted in similarly unhelpful ways. We focus on being “good” or “not bad”, while people & situations are dem

There's a lot of shit happening in the world, right now. Some see it, feel it. Others see it, but dismiss the degree of shit. Then, there are the arguments that arise over feelings, perceptions, & even what to do. Who's

What if feedback loops were more popularly understood as dynamic looping? Not a noun, but a verb. Signals sent, uninhibited. Signals acknowledged & metabolized. Leading to a reorganizing of the system, resulting in a cha

From the design of AI to its responses, attention has often been oriented towards fitting into the "bits & bytes" mechanics ('This is how we code file systems/logic gates/etc... Now let's fit this idea of AI into this pa

Building on ideas from the "Morals as functional theatre?' episode, I share how my thinking has complexified and expanded. Combining the previous conceptual framing with this new one, they seem to make me & others more l

Sometimes, I think we humans are very funny in our audacity. To think that we could remove any and all influences in the practice of science. I love science! I do! But it is imperfect, and IMO is far more powerful when c

In the previous episode, I tried to do the ridiculous; take a non-gender-essentialist/exceptionalist look at patriarchy & matriarchy. After taking a step back to really look at matriarchy, to me, it's looking a lot like

When hierarchies of dominance teach us to understand everything in boxes, then to evaluate how accurately a thing, a person, each of us, fits in a box, should be evaluated according to that box, in contrast to another bo

What if morals are functional theatre? For us? For others? What if they really aren't about what is good or right conduct? What if that's just the story? And how we embody & live out the story, is entirely different? And

We're often led to believe that only certain people can or can't be imaginative, that only certain contexts & times are "appropriate" for "childishness". I endeavour to show that everyone is creative, and then how unexpe

What if Goliaths could be brought down in more ways than one? What if, instead of a flashy moment or a single hero... What if we could destabilize the "ground" beneath a Goliath but reinforce the "ground" for the rest of

If cognitive empathy is done selectively and sharing how sexism & misogyny are literally costing women's lives is not a motivating factor... If patriarchy is a self-reinforcing & rewarding prison costing men's lives, and

I think we're at a pivotal point in history. Previously, we could build less complex systems that significantly relied on individuals doing the "right thing" — it was, essentially, an assumed cog in the machine. We used

The early explorations of: How do we create different online experiences? Using multiple lenses to look at the stabilizing tethers of real life vs the dissassociated experience of online life. This is a public episode. I
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