why we should

So I write about worlds, worlding, worldmaking, worldbuilding, the world, a world. How do other people use the word? Ulay is a hard put upon performance artist with a career, or should I say, now, platform, no one is going anywheres these days, which is based in shadowing a successful New York eurotrash dominatrix from the Balkans. Ulay ist sein…

Originally posted on substack.com 2023-09-30. Socius based studies go off the rails when they forget they were given the go ahead by their betters, or, by peeps deciding to better their betters. I’ll use socius to abstract away from the form/usage "society", as such it refers to methods where ‘structures’ are used to explain or change the world (control it perhaps),…

In the mid-1980s, on a windy slope with a view, overlooking the shallow waters flowing in the Murrumbidgee of the Monaro, in southern New South Wales, a clean-cut hippy drummed deep into the weed-invested night. Hippies had peaked in influence over a decade before, but those who had recapitulated the back-to-the-landers of the post-war period had their hills and valleys…

When I learned about joint attention I had my mind blown a little. It’s a term from psychology and studies of the acquisition of language, but the general idea goes back to the Greeks and their ideas on learning language. Basically a parent looks or points at something and the child notices, because they notice everything their parent does, and…

I was watching the youtube channel Religion for Breakfast on more recent scholarship on what the eucharist was, or represented, when remembering the last supper. The TL;DR or didn't-watch for this is that shared meals were a very common activity, which in the Greco-Roman world might be called a deipnon in the Hellenised eastern Mediterranean (at about 24 minutes in the…

Attic red-figured Pinax. Diameter: 19.5 cm Height: 1.9 cm. Attributed to Epiktetos by signature. Made in Athens about 520-510 BC; from Vulci, Etruria. Currently, London, The British Museum via https://www.flickr.com/photos/69716881@N02/7691738970/in/photostream/ Christopher I. Beckwith, The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, ISBN 9780691240534) In large measure the book is composed…