Hi all! Hosting The Icon0clastic Ball on Itch.| Traverse Fantasy
Put this together! My partner's grandfather, since we reconnected, keeps sending me crackpot stuff about climate change being fake and the ice caps reformulating (if you're curious: the ice caps grow and melt seasonally, but a lesser rate than which they're melting due to increased global temperature). Although I had an idea of why climate change occurs, I didn't know specifics or how I would answer if someone asked me to explain how it works from top-to-bottom (or perhaps, as a good dialecti...| Traverse Fantasy
Okayyy this is going to be a lot. Had a breakthrough so I don’t feel quite done yet.| Traverse Fantasy
There was a certain graffiti during the attempted 1968 revolution in France: "Structures do not walk on the streets!" Žižek summarizing Lacan (haven't read Seminar XVII unfortunately) submits that the opposite is true, and this is where one might appreciate his relative conservatism: that the street fights between the student revolutionaries and the police were in fact expressive of and overdetermined by the social order, which is in a constant and dynamic process of self-definition (comp...| Traverse Fantasy
This isn't that interesting! Just noticed that I have a sort of schedule throughout the year:| Traverse Fantasy
This is a paper I wrote for my first semester of undergrad in 2018. I actually wanted to expand it into a thesis about the economics of online platforms (business people say stupid shit about it) before I shifted my research wholly into Greco-Latin poetry, but I still like the analysis and sometimes wish I could refer to it. So, here it is! Sorry for any eighteen-year-old bullshit. Also I removed the footnotes because they were annoying to reformat, but the works cited section is still there.| Traverse Fantasy
Updated a zine I wrote last year during the pro-Palestine student protests. Printout on Itch . 1. Current Day In April 2024, hundreds of...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Digital version of my pamphlet on Itch! Investigating the historical context and legacy of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written to proselytize radical liberalism right before the American Revolution.| Traverse Fantasy