⚧𐂂 Mycelialisms

Category: Essays

Never ask Permission - Trans Wrongs instead of Trans Rights

Posted:   |   Categories: essays   |   Tags: activism, trans

A response to the UK’s Supreme Court ruling on gender and trans women.

My music recommendation for today is Gender Identity Domination by Jane Doe and The Misery Loves Co.

Many of you will probably already be aware of the decision made by the UK supreme court to legally define the term “woman” based on “biological sex”. The way that this has been framed as a decision worth celebrating in outlets such as the BBC and the Guardian is loathsome, but expected.

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Interfacing Technologies

Posted:   |   Categories: essays   |   Tags: abstraction, extension, interfaces, philosophy, technology

Here are some notes toward an essay that I would like to structure more, but the more I type the more I find and I’m trying to bring it to a point where I can call it finished and expand on these ideas in other pieces.

My music recommendation for today is NOW by RENT STRIKE

In her rant about technology, Ursula K. LeGuin describes technology as the “active human interface with the world”. She reminds us that technology’s prime function is to interact with our surroundings and that this privilege is not restricted to what she calls “hi tech”:

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