A Theory of Inquiry

Ask a question and assume an answer; inquire and find what lay between asking, assuming, and knowing. ———- an interdisciplinary blog for writing, research, and inquiry through various forms, mediums, and genres. Baltimore.

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A design I’ve been trying to finish for a year 🥴

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Question: what if I repeated the line “mom is pissed” to emphasize the longitudinal suffering of being parented by someone who is angry?

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The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization. Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRIs). It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why particular individuals have low levels of serotonin. This requires a social and political explanation; and the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages...”

― Hermann Hesse

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Source

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Omg

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A whisper in a box to others will appear silent and empty.

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Fmeup

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Monday Witchcraft

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Tag yourself (leave a comment or something I d k )

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Two of my feline soulmates in their elements…

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With or without ears??

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Working on some designs as an initial step into inquiry about sustainable gardening on the property we are attempting to purchase! Excited for this process. I’ll try to share more here as the concepts evolve.