Much of the digital realm as it is currently constructed has been shifted to become a facilitator, or enactor, of a fascistic societal structure . . . We are increasingly encouraged to forgo critical thinking and to ignore how society is actually formed and slide along its autonomous rails.

In UXA.GOV, complicity has its price, and there is no such things as a passive observer.

There’s an intense metaphysical battle for the soul unfurling. One’s will and agency is funneled through coiling mechanical algorithms by technologists—so knowing exactly what cognitive levers to pull and how is of great consequence.

A curious mix of reflection and commentary on male privilege and abuse . . . frame[d] . . . through the theories of Marshall McLuhan, someone who fascinates [Joynt] both as an academic and as a distant relative.

In UXA.GOV, complicity has its price, and there is no such things as a passive observer.

A curious mix of reflection and commentary on male privilege and abuse . . . frame[d] . . . through the theories of Marshall McLuhan, someone who fascinates [Joynt] both as an academic and as a distant relative.

Saturnin wants his master to be an adventurer, but he doesn’t merely plan or dream: He acts on his fantasies, creating situations that force his master out of his banal existence and into the unexpected.

Without Eve’s disobedience, there would have been no progress, advancement, or human intelligence, and for that, in Freeley’s view, Eve deserves “a profound salaam of admiration and respect” as “the first courageous, undaunted pioneer woman of the world.”

Much of the digital realm as it is currently constructed has been shifted to become a facilitator, or enactor, of a fascistic societal structure . . . We are increasingly encouraged to forgo critical thinking and to ignore how society is actually formed and slide along its autonomous rails.

There’s an intense metaphysical battle for the soul unfurling. One’s will and agency is funneled through coiling mechanical algorithms by technologists—so knowing exactly what cognitive levers to pull and how is of great consequence.

It’s still an open question in my mind whether writing can inspire or support good and loving actions at the scale that it facilitates and fuels evil ones.

I didn’t have a grand narrative. I didn’t have one idea of what it meant. I had many ideas of what might be happening to me, what sort of transformation this was . . . I wanted to leave room for that uncertainty and that process of making up my mind.

The body can guide the process of its own translation if its author will let it. An expert at adaptation, it already knows how to exist on the page.

In the end, a long-term structural operating deficit killed UArts, not a capital fundraising shell game or evil provost.

Blending a cultural story and creating something new with it can be good or bad, depending on who’s telling the story and who’s in charge of the narrative.

Failure doesn’t . . . mean we have lost or that we can’t live in a world where Palestine is free, where the Congo is free, where Hawai’i is free, where West Papua is free, and where Western Sahara is free. . . . Everything is broken, but it doesn’t mean that the horror our ancestors experienced or that we continue to bear witness to cannot be healed.

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Lately I’ve stopped looking at my father; his body is just another part of the room now, like the bed, the chair, and the window onto the maternity ward.