F. Loki @f_loki@scholar.social

The book is Lee McIntyre's "Post-Truth" (2018) and it's got an entire chapter about how it's the fault of the vague derrida-foucault body of work that "fake news" exists.

I sigh as I once again reset the "Days since I've read someone who goes on a tirade about 'postmodernism' without genuinely engaging with the concepts being critiqued" counter to 0.

Have something to work towards 💪 now to switch back into deep research mode for the first time in a few months

*whispers* Foucault

Finally found something, "Race and Method: The Tuvel Affair" (Botts 2018)

A billion defences? Yes. Any critical responses? No. Any non-transphobic critical responses? Nope.

No institutional access to non-transphobic responses to tuvel's "in defence of transracialism" 😡

Me: foucault's writing is really dense, I'll look up a secondary resource for this

The internet: Sure here you go, an "epic takedown" of an archaeology of knowledge circa a 2006 wordpress blog

The law of excluded middle sure gets brought up a lot in these philosophy topics huh. I'm keeping my constructivist mouth shut.

My brain remains frazzled by shifting fields. Very much a token computer scientist right now, though I'm slowly shifting gears.

And weren't for Evil Organisations™️

If only part-time software engineering jobs existed 😅

This brought to you by my keeping an eye on my new university email and my old university email.

Anxiety can be directly proportional to how many email tabs you have open.

I've got to say, philosophy papers are very different from computer science papers in a kind of refreshing but jarring way.

Admissions bureaucracy and its timing with enrolment downtime is being pretty spooky right now 😅

Anyway I'm reading about reading Foucault (the Foucault reader, rabinow)