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decentralised socialist, vegan, kinda buddhist, autistic

I support all human and non-human liberation.

solidarity without similarity

collectivity not connectivity

smash the self

likes to read a lot, mostly into buddhism, chinese philosophy, leftist politics, critical theory, scifi/fantasy

music: hardcore, emo, screamo, black metal, death metal, prog, industrial, some alt rock

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starcideAug 8, 2022
The Netflix Woodstock 99 documentary feels very prescient in relation to the political situation currently in the UK.... what happens when terrible management and unrestrained capitalism meet....
Show threadstarcideAug 8, 2022
@arisingvoice exactly this!
Show threadstarcideAug 5, 2022
I don't feel I've overcome mine yet but I feel I've learnt some good tools against it, mostly mindfulness and meditation practice has worked for me, the core of which is what @nomand said, practising stopping negative thought patterns, its hard but you get better at it. They will always still arise,but the less you can input into them and let them go the less power in general they will have over your thinking. Easier said than done but I've personally found it alot of help.
starcideAug 3, 2022

On Being None With Nature: Nagarjuna and the Ecology of Emptiness By John Clark

http://tibetanbuddhistencyclopedia.com/en/index.php?title=On_Being_None_With_Nature:_Nagarjuna_and_the_1_Ecology_of_Emptiness

A really great essay!

Some further discussion here:
https://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2009/11/14/nagarjuna-ecophilosophy-the-practice-of-liberation/

On Being None With Nature: Nagarjuna and the 1 Ecology of Emptiness - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia

On Being None With Nature: Nagarjuna and the Ecology of Emptiness

starcideJul 28, 2022
Odo TournesolJul 28, 2022

When you realize there is no self or selves compassion becomes easier.

Suffering of others is your suffering

The dying forest is you dying

Nourishing the world is nourishing yourself

starcideJul 25, 2022

Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality” A reply to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.14318/hau5.2.003

This is so wide ranging, relevant to the Ontological Turn in Anthropology, Malagasy epistemology, politics, life in general. Really well written. Graeber really gets to the heart of the matter on some things about the ontological turn and perspectivism that have been tickling the back of my brain, despite thinking it was(still is) great food for thought.

Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality” : A reply to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory: Vol 5, No 2

As a response to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s critique of my essay “Fetishes are gods in the process of construction,” this paper enters into critical engagement with anthropological proponents of what has been called the “ontological turn.” Among other engagements, I note that my own reflections on Malagasy fanafody, or medicine, are informed by just the sort of self-conscious reflections my informants make on epistemology, something that anthropologists typically ignore. After making note of the arguments of Roy Bhaskar that most post-Cartesian philosophy rests on an “epistemic fallacy,” I further argue that a realist ontology, combined with broad theoretical relativism, is a more compelling political position than the “ontological anarchy” and theoretical intolerance of ontological turn exponents.

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Show threadstarcideJul 24, 2022
@orko thanks very much for all of this, I had no idea and its helpful to know
starcideJul 23, 2022
So I'm reading Staying with the Trouble, a book I was very keen to read. She has some good points, 'Staying with the Trouble' is a good metaphor. But Haraway is just a speciesist, no way around it, farmers and nonhumans do not 'work together' (to use just one example from the book). Not a single mention of consent in this book related to nonhumans and these relations. The book 'The Feminist Care Tradition In Animal Ethics' is infinitely better IMHO.
Show threadstarcideJul 22, 2022
@alx I'm autistic and this covers me too, I had no idea about this, thanks!
Show threadstarcideJul 18, 2022
@pdotb no worries, glad you liked it :) I generally rate Acid Horizon :) Capitalist Realism is really good, though as the podcast mentioned its pretty negative, but gives some good ways of framing what is bad and why.