this week i got back into meditation and running and it really helped. i think i was hitting autistic burnout cuz i got super overstimulated easily and just couldn’t bring myself to do anything but after reading ismatu’s article https://ismatu.substack.com/p/girl-go-to-sleep-ft-lessons-from i finally allowed? myself to actually get some rest and dear god did it help.

could I be added to the role call please

Does anyone know what the status of the qinghua university implant was. I remember reading about it a while ago but anyone have any updates?

hey… as the only poster in the clarinet community - yeah no that’s fair i only posted because i saw someone else created it and there were no other posts

Went to the university i’m going to next fall’s encampment. It’s crazy to go from high school where i could barely find anyone supportive of palestine(supportive enough to actually take action. most people were supportive but like no one did anything which pisses me off to no end but tangent aside) to a full on encampment. food was bussin tho

Also relating to the comment below my multitotal and your response, i agree with multitotal that it’s a bit of a romanticization but also i think this can viewed as a negation of the negation. Negation of the primitive structure and the modern alienated structures for a synthesis into hopefully a better society.

That felt a bit incoherent but i’m too lazy to reword that so hopefully it’s at least somewhat understandable.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311811471_An_Introduction_to_Generative_Justice

I was reading this paper a while ago and this is Marx’s theory of alienation. When we are so alienated from the products of our labor it seems to pointless often.

The paper talks about how even under socialist economies labor is alienated to be redistributed by the state. An improvement on capitalism, but nonetheless alienated

Another way capitalism alienates us, while not directly marx’s analysis on labor, is from community. It’s so hard to have community under capitalism.

maybe

to be fair the shanghai metro also has security(which imo kinda unnecessary but fair ig). but even then they have an actually nice metro

I have also had the chance to meet a pre-new china member of the cpc. He was my grandpa actually. Unfortunately he died a couple years ago and the last time I was back in china I didn’t know what a marx was…

I wish you the best of experiences though.

pleaseeeeeeee

how do i tag the post and join the list?

I read it a while ago and it was pretty good. Also i think it holds the record for the most citations in a single chapter i’ve seen at 154.

While musk’s antics are pure stupidity, something that has at least come out of it is its influence in the push for more reusable rockets and influencing chinas long march 9 plans. All credit of course goes to the SpaceX engineers and not musk.

I mean they’ve done this before… a quick invasion, taking of a treaty port, and a whole lot of opium

I personally really like to journal but even if you don’t I like to prepare for interview by writing down like what i would answer to the questions. Then in the case of an interview I kinda already know where I want to go so i can focus on making myself more articulate and prose more interesting. Of course you won’t cover everything you will get asked and will still need to impromptu some questions but i find i feel a lot more prepared and that helps with my anxiety.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/347925/#:~:text=The People’s Republic of China dealt with addiction as a,Large opium distributors were imprisoned.

https://www.persee.fr/doc/cemot_0764-9878_2001_num_32_1_1607

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2092&context=hon_thesis

Woah! My parents are from chongqing and I haven’t been back since before covid. I agree with the other commenter about seeing pandas. My ass would want to see the subway system as it looks amazing but that’s probably just me lmao.

I haven’t really been to chengdu so can’t comment on specific places but one thing i will say is FOOD. Ofc hotpot, but also try like 羊肉米粉(lamb noodles? i guess it translates to) and you have to try 重庆小面(chongqing little noddles? the direction translation is a bit goofy but idk how else to translate it lol). It’s really hot there so try not to die of like heat stroke or anything and lastly just have fun!

My sister does a lot of this stuff - I’ll pull up some resources tomorrow, remind me if i forget. I was at their club meeting where we went over this exact stuff.

What comes to mind that i’ve read super recently is Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell. I’ll throw in a quote here and would recommend - though not super sure it would be super applicable to your paper so i’ll go find some actual resources tomorrow.

Here’s a quote from the book that summarizes it, but i’ll update this tomorrow(it’s like 2 am rn)

The construct of gender binary is, and has always been, precarious. Aggressively contingent, it is an immaterial invention that in its toxic virality has infected our social and cultural narratives. To exist within a binary system one must assume that our selves are unchangeable, that how we are read in the world must be chosen for us, rather than for us to define—and choose—for ourselves. To be at the intersection of female-identifying, queer, and Black is to find oneself at an integral apex. Each of these components is a key technology in and of itself. Alone and together, “female,” “queer,” “Black” as a survival strategy demand the creation of their individual machinery, that innovates, builds, resists. With physical movement often restricted, female-identifying people, queer people, Black people invent ways to create space through rupture. Here, in that disruption, with our collective congregation at that trippy and trip-wired crossroad of gender, race, and sexuality, one finds the power of the glitch.

“We use “body” to give material form to an idea that has no form, an assemblage that is abstract. The concept of a body houses within it social, political, and cultural discourses, which change based on where the body is situated and how it is read. When we gender a body, we are making assumptions about the body’s function, its sociopolitical condition, its fixity. When the body is determined as a male or female individual, the body performs gender as its score, guided by a set of rules and requirements that validate and verify the humanity of that individual. A body that pushes back at the application of pronouns, or remains indecipherable within binary assignment, is a body that refuses to perform the score. This nonperformance is a glitch. This glitch is a form of refusal.”

“Within glitch feminism, glitch is celebrated as a vehicle of refusal, a strategy of nonperformance. This glitch aims to make abstract again that which has been forced into an uncomfortable and ill-defined material: the body. In glitch feminism, we look at the notion of glitch-as-error with its genesis in the realm of the machinic and the digital and consider how it can be reapplied to inform the way we see the AFK world, shaping how we might participate in it toward greater agency for and by ourselves. Deploying the Internet as a creative material, glitch feminism looks first through the lens of artists who, in their work and research, offer solutions to this troubled material of the body. The process of becoming material surfaces tensions, prompting us to inquire: Who defines the material of the body? Who gives it value—and why?