@mooncake For me, reading Foucault helped with the "no escape" dilemma. The concept of biopower as a form of resistance, not just control in particular
Seeing as how they're up in our bodies and our minds, or even body/mind itself (like the quote says), we all can use that together to turn the tables
Amy Tan, Thomas Pynchon and yours truly have all worked as technical writers. I hated it and did it for way too long, but it paid well.
"Kurt Vonnegut described technical writers as '...trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writing. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to the reader.'"
@ghost_bird@deshipu i know that asserting "coding is more like postmodern poetry than hard science, in a lot of cases" gets people's defenses up, but it works for me.
that + group analysis = graduate level poetics work. having a background in that helps a great deal in wrapping my head around more complex structures/languages.
Soooooo...my mentions are like "communism only doesn't work if it's the bad communism, like bolshevism or some other bad revolutionary communism, unlike gradualist, reformist communism"
*watches as a huge red-baiting brush smears itself all over the entire history of anarchism*
*gapes as it is revealed for once for all that democratic socialism is somehow communism now, who knew*