revenge bedtime procrastination!

good thread

And just like commodity fetishism, it's a fetish in the psychological sense as well—gooning, for example, is a manifestation of this sexual fixation on the data-object and its algorithmic animation.

apparently everyone is calling it that. makes sense!

Well, that and a sense of the inseparability of the aesthetic from the social.

I have often wished for more objective measures in poetry (a game I like to play) so that we could experience the paradoxical collaboration that competition can bring; that, rather than subject matter or rhyme scheme, is what I think the page poets should take from rap.

STEM academia outwardly appears to have some of this but it's far too tied to who gets promoted, tenured, etc.

In a communistic society we would have lots of objective measures of performance but no way to "accumulate" your successes except as stories, and there would be a lot of somatic, sexual, and financial resources available to discover your own worth outside of a particular game.

Having an objective metric of performance as you collaboratively work out new dimensions of a space can actually foster MORE camaraderie when there's no way to "own" your innovations or translate your success into anything more than a cool story to impress your friends.

I mean I'm not calling it that constantly. I eat and poop

I think this is maybe a stage trans women get to at a certain point. But it's not that I'm pessimistic about the universalizability of transition or the revolutionary potential of transness. I don't have those tendencies. Just confused why y'all are so mad at such beautiful ppl.