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kate wagner
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Unheil-bringer. architecture critic @thenation.com, sportswriter @escapecollective.bsky.social. creator of https://late-review.com, derailleur.net, mcmansionhell.com.

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thank you!!
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I was in the clinical trials for Vyvanse as a kid and remember such things similarly!
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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that is because going to the eye doctor has been some of the only joy in my life
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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i am having fun
The optometrist defrocks the eye. He strips the sentimentality from seeing.1 This is because the eye of the optometrist is based neither in myth nor in literature but in modernity. His ancestral teacher is not Sophocles but Newton. As far as the optometrist is concerned, everything before the Optics is little more than a bunch of stumbling around in the dark, belying, perhaps, that his greatest dream is to render blindness a metaphor. The optometrist’s obsession is the kind of seeing unimaginable to the rest of us: a form of seeing without meaning, little more than a means of transduction by which light is converted into image. As such, his is the instrumental eye, the eye as apparatus, the lens, the membrane. How we see is a very answerable question for him.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I seek the optometrist because all my life I have wanted interpretation stripped from me. Since childhood, I have longed for a situation in which I am relieved of the burden of what is most important to me, the ability to make things known, by way of reducing it to a mechanism. Such a mechanism would free me in so many ways, would, through the simplest processes of objectification, remove from me the burdens of uniqueness, performance, and adjudication — and through this mechanism I would finally find relief from doing, being, and obeying. But most of all, as a mechanism, it would be inherently state-dependent, which is to say, it could be turned off and on again. With it, I could both have and relinquish to others a newfound agency. Thus, my greatest fantasy of the Eye.
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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idk I’ve had after effects from my concussion for over ten months — very much such a thing as post concussion syndrome. some people recover from concussions in days or weeks but many have problems for months or years. IMO if neurocovid is caused by brain inflammation it’s functionally the same
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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i am convinced that neuro covid is basically a concussion
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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was it convergence insufficiency?
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
katewagner.wehwalt.net
it's true but my eye doctor says not to do it
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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they should let me do it i got a B- in conducting
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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i've got mine back to back with psychoanalysis bc they're a block from one another. the whole day is written off anyway lol
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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ty <3
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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brain inflammation is wild!
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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i have convergence insufficiency which is mentioned as the exception here
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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why are the eye and mouth pariahs
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM