"The search for laws consists in extracting constants, even if those constants are only relations between variables (equations). An invariable form for variables, a variable matter of the invariant: such is the foundation of the hylomorphic schema.
But for the... nomad science the relevant distinction is material-forces rather than matter-form. Here it is not a question of extracting constants from variables but of placing the variables themselves in a state of continuous variation."
I've been watching masks and other COVID precautions disappear from "leftist" spaces that claim to be addressing internalized abelism and capitalism and be fighting for the working class for months now.
This is actively pushing out people who are at higher risk of long (and short) term impacts from a covid 19 infection.
NEW VIDEO ESSAY! "Ben Burgis Can't Give Us an Argument" is now live on YouTube, wherein I cover Ben running interference for Ana Kasparian, ask some questions and make what I believe is an important point.
everywhere else is just transphobia day in day out and constant repeats of the same tired old discourse i am so tired of that economy of attention
sorry the instance was down for so long, critical security errors timed with needing to go on a trip perfectly enough to make me just shut it down til i could work on it again
i ask because i want to expand my repertoire of works that i can reference for conceptions of violence (and its supposed opposite non-violence).
i'll be having a discussion with a few others on a stream in a few days, and we'll be discussing violence.
in general i think the average person's conception of violence papers over much of the daily violence that upholds our lives. i think the average person's conception of "nonviolence" is a kind of Martyr fetish that sees the role of the oppressed as one to be beaten until the oppressor's heart is moved by the display of nonviolence.
A wandering deer, building shrines along the way.