(Post 6 in the series: Utopias of Play) In the last post we covered the ways in which structural violence moves across the fault lines of our existing hierarchies, affecting people in varying degrees and different ways. i want to go into the mechanism that allows this to happen, the
Post 5 in the series: Utopias of Play i want to start off with a little disclaimer, i originally called this episode Oppression olympics but as i was editing it i realised that this comes across cynical and doesn't open the space to discuss the ways in which
(Post 4 in the series: Utopia of Play) Or why Elon Musk pays someone to play his video games In the last post, i traced how capitalism replaced play with games, promising transformation through transparent rules. How we're stuck performing adulthood in a system designed to keep us
(Post 3 in the series: Utopia of Play) In the introduction to this series, i asked some questions, the first of which was - 'Why is joy rationed while productivity is infinite?' and the second question 'Why does living cost so much - and who decided survival
(Post 2 in the series: Utopia of Play) In my previous post, i shared my experience in the Covid19 pandemic - how my relationship to work, time, and play shifted, and how i started to question whether the pace of our lives serves anything human at all. i hinted towards
...or why everything worth learning happens in play i recently spoke to a ballet teacher about wanting to nail multiple pirouettes and he told me it only happens during play. In class, the structure works against you. You get 30 seconds at most to try it, then the exercise moves
Last post i discussed how violence and colonial projects erased identities and rituals of healing, leading to cycles of trauma and domination that we have inherited globally. i also discussed how thinkers like Frantz Fanon believed that violence was necessary for overthrowing oppressive regimes and for liberation movements but this
i keep having this thought - it comes up between the latest horrors and updates from Gaza - about how we heal from legacies of violence. Beneath the drones and rubble is a story so old it feels ancestral. A story of people being erased by those who were once
Sometime in 2024, i listened to the You’re Wrong About episode Flight 571: Survival in the Andes with Blair Braverman, then went down the rabbit hole with another podcast series, from Wondery: Plane Crash in the Andes the kind that takes a couple episodes to walk you through everything:
A couple years ago i became obsessed with Yellowstone. Yes, that one. The conservative cowboy epic, with all its horses, open skies, gravelly-voiced patriarchs, and rugged Americana soaked in blood and sentiment. And not just Yellowstone but the entire world Taylor Sheridan has constructed - Neo cowboy, sprawling mythologies centered
When is handwriting just scribbling something down and when is it something sacred? East Asian cultures uniquely elevate writing beyond communication to a profound artistic expression, a discipline and a way of life. While not my native language, Japanese calligraphy served as my introduction to visual writing arts, which i