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bad worldbuilding

a morally authoritative intangible

ritual embeddings, festive rants

Universal human rights

Communications: opacity and the finicky printer

bar fights and punching nazis

Umwelten

Codger the child-minder

Henri Bergson was wrong, but in a good way

I read the whole thing: In Defense of Conservatives Credit, where credit is due

contronym… —when the source is the sink it is all about the flow

I have explained a lot and ended up with no pleasure at all.

re-wheeling invention

Returning in reframe to the flow

the world is the thickest concept

A wonderful straightedge of a book, Lorraine Daston's Rules: A Short History of What We Live By

How others are using the word and the thing that is the world, also digital suffering?

Things that annoy

forMeika on literature

You spin me right round

Agency and mores

Stability: order versus the hierarchy

Agency

Freedom to/from liberty… —lack thereof

A panarchy of relativism

Panarchy and me

I've been writing boundaries for various ontologies…

So I write about worlds, worlding, worldmaking, worldbuilding, the world, a world. How do other people use the word?

Castles in the air, a high dudgeon

Joint attention 101 – mind blown

Proportions of the Janus ratio

Asking an LLM to simplify ‘Humiliating the world?’

Humiliating the world?

The Janus Ratio

we world eternally in infinite jest

Bad worldbuilding Roger, bad.

Mining Super Cooperators

Noting Iris Murdoch quoting Wittgenstein and friends

Iris Murdoch and the good of it

Getting Ursula le Guin and Iris Murdoch to chat a bit

From selfing in worlding to sovereignty

Piranesi, the shepherd worlding their selves

Seeing the self for the world, we cannot see the world we do

Inappropriation

On the appearance of a living buddha in Hobart, Tasmania

the sky pool

Tracking traces telling

The problem with empathy

Worlds of difference

.before country (not forgetting ⓪ ∅)

The need for worlds

Reading: The Relativistic Brain: How It Works and Why It Cannot by Simulated by a Turing Machine by Ronald Cicurel and Miguel A. L. Nicolelis - Part 2

Reading: The Relativistic Brain: How It Works and Why It Cannot by Simulated by a Turing Machine by Ronald Cicurel and Miguel A. L. Nicolelis - Part 1

What are you rebelling aginst? What have you got? A better world or a better logic?

Slash-and-burn is a category killer, just watch me blur a cleaving to/apart

Im/morality and the authoritarian devils among us

Worlding the love

Cormac Orthography, more or less

There is no narrative, but, the show must go…. —on

It's intention all the way down.

Re-hashing the Old Believers

Reasons to be real.

If the world is a thing we have made, then all things are in the world.

Bookending worlds

Giants and dwarves, designers of no import

world unfolding by making it up

The world between

in passing

The (moral urge / world building urge) plex

Worldbuilding 102… —Don’t judge the future.

Worldbuilding 101

Reading into memories of the origins of virtue

Why we praise primacy… —the creative doubt

Mapping the gap… —within

Mapping the gap: Why don’t you use more definition?

really really, yes really, really really really

Allowing the gap

Academic careers as [instagramish] filters over scholarship and history. Discuss.

Mapping the gap: The night sky is full of constellations rickrolling unicorns for fun and profit.

Join me on Notes

the gap-hunter must known the country, the gatherer of gaps knits them into the world

The woomera is a multitool, get over it you lazy bastards

Asking AI via chatGPT about pronouns and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time

Christopher I. Beckwith's The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China

Social mediation… —Primary doubt ① & ②

I mean, what have the symbols ever done for us?

Divining the… —gap

Can we define the… —gap?

Why I no longer arts artifacts into artefactual fits and starts : religion/art/ritual/drama/routine

Example of a bad "should" No. 0001

Children are wonderful, if I didn't have kids, I'd walk around thinking I was Rimbaud all the time.

Laziness is possible because of effort

Gap hunting duck-rabbits with Miles, in homage to Ludwig Wittgenstein (ach Hans! it's just St Augustine of Hippo in the pear tree)

Categories versus structure/s

Sister Wendy on love as an obedient art

hmmm, yeah but nah (genetics, memetics and the extended West Cork reminiscence of bookish futility)

Mary Beth Willard’s 'Why It’s Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists'

Categories versus practices

Flowcharting faith-based faith versus faith-obeying-reason

Fideism, reason and the gap that is always there

Mark Dooley's Roger Scruton and my modest proposal

Fideism the Heresy & Obedience

To build a better world, we should destroy the Catholic Church.

Casewell’s Jaspers, but meika’s Deleuzian Bergsonism.

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