Study Notes: Jan 18-24, 2015: "Parafanfiction and Oppositional Fandom" &c

This is commentary. And this is really good. 

What I've been watching and reading this week: 

• Article, "Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?" by Natalie Wolchover 
• Article, "New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time" by Natalie Wolchover
• Article, "Dream Machine: The mind-expanding world of quantum computing" by Rivka Galchen
• Article, "Five Practical Uses for 'Spooky' Quantum Mechanics" by Nicola Jenner
• Post, "Parafanfiction and Oppositional Fandom" by Sam Keeper
• Post, "Creating as the World Falls Down" by Sam Keeper

Homework for the future: 

• Go through at least five entries in in my "P Articles" bookmark folder. Let's go with: (1) 
• "Technical debt and the making of payments on it"; (2) "Marxist Feminism / Materialist Feminism"; (3) "Ninth-Century Muslim Anarchists"; (4) "Friedrich Nietzsche on Why a Fulfilling Life Requires Embracing Rather than Running from Difficulty"; (5) Nietzsche, the Overhuman and the Posthuman: A Reply to Stefan Sorgner"
• Read the posts linked to by "Responses to the Anti-Reactionary FAQ.". Eventually. 
• Still on the to-do list: studying the Austrian School of Economics.
• Also on the to-do list: All of those themes that I decide I want to play with, and cool bits that attract me, and things like that? Let's get systematic about that, put them into a single document (might be public, might not) and work with at least one of them every week. Systematic. Systematic. I do it best when I do it systematically. 

Study Notes: Dec 28, 2014-Jan 3, 2015: "Anarchism and the Constitution"

This is commentary. And this is really good. 

What I've been watching and reading this week: 

• Post, "Anarchism and the Constitution" by Jeremy Weiland
• Essay, "Anarcho-Theocracy: The Only Biblical Form of Government" 
• Page, "Historical Examples of Anarchy without Chaos" compiled by Roy Halliday
• Post, "Is Medieval Iceland an example of "anarcho"-capitalism working in practice?" by afaq
• Post, "Cha-Change! Formal Experimentation in Adventure Time" by Sam Keeper
• Post, "Hyperflexible Mythology: Classpects, Fandom, and Fanfiction" by Sam Keeper
• Thread, "Obscure Mythology"
• Article, "4 Famous Movies with Deceptively Complex Symbolism" by Gladstone
• Post, "How to write like... Philip K Dick" by Phil South
• Post, "How to write like... David Lynch" by Phil South
• Post, "How to write like... Douglas Adams" by Phil South
• Post, "How to write like... Neil Gaiman" by Phil South
• Post, "How to write like... "Ian Fleming" by Phil South

The Art Gallery: "Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)"

Alright. I'm going to start this out by saying that I'm not really sure where I'm going to be going with this. I would like for this to be a kind of "these are the stories that are coming out of these pictures" thing, but I'm not sure if that's what it's going to be. If it can manage to be that then I'll transfer it over to White Marble Block. Otherwise it'll stay here as... I don't know. As a thing. 

Study Notes: Dec 7-13, 2014: "How Steampunk Screws with Victorian Gender Norms"

This is commentary. And this is really good. 

What I've been watching and reading this week: 

• Article, "Queer Cogs: Steampunk, Gender Identity, and Sexuality," by Lisa Hager
• Thread, "What's the difference between aesthetic/sensual attraction and sexual attraction?" on Asexuality.org
• Article, "How Steampunk Screws with Victorian Gender Norms," by Molly Westerman
• Essay, "Blooms of Banjeli," by Eugenia W. Herbert and Candice Goucher
• Article, "Monopoly is Theft," by Christopher Ketcham

WikiLearning #1 (sea organs, &c)

Things I've learned from Wikipedia, and sometimes other places.

This is commentary. And this is really good.

The Sea Organ is an "experimental musical instrument which plays music by way of sea waves and tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps." Built by Nikola Basic "as apart of the project to redesign the new city coast (Nova riva)" of Zadar, Croatia, which had been destroyed during WWII.