PHILOSOPHIKA

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[philosophika]

✦ PHILOSOPHIKA ✦ INTRODUCTION

“With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: at first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.” — Nikola Tesla, On Electricity.

Hello, citizens of Tumblr! I'm PHILOSOPHIKA (she/her), a British 🇬🇧 and Colombian 🇨🇴 philosopher (BA & MA), freelance editor, and aspiring novelist. Welcome to my MAIN BLOG, where I share all the cool things that pop up on my dash. Tag & ask game-friendly.

✦ I’M SPECIALIZED IN

— AESTHETICS: (from the Greek “aisthetikos,” “sense perception”). This branch of philosophy studies concepts such as beauty and ugliness and investigates the nature of art (literature, music) and the senses. — ANARCHIC ETHICS: Ethics is the branch of philosophy that asks how we ought to act to lead a morally laudable existence. Anarchic ethics explores ethical models that don’t rely on a guiding principal (an arché) to direct behaviour. *Questions and/or discussions on either topic are always welcome!

✦ FUN FACTS

— I’m fully bilingual in English and Spanish. My French is passable (working on it!), I can read Italian, and I can read and write in Latin and Ancient Greek (although I’m very rusty). — Pisces ♓️, ENFP 💃🏻, Adult ADHD 🔥 — I work as a freelance editor for fiction. You can check out my website here: www.noumenonedits.com — I love writing fiction, especially adult fantasy novels with philosophy-inspired magic systems. You can check out my latest project at the writeblr linked below!

✦ SIDEBLOGS

THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE ~ @thesorcerersapprentice​ Writeblr |  Fantasy Novel in Progress DIARY OF A PHILOSOPHER ~ @diaryofaphilosopher Quotes |  Assorted Literature & Philosophy Quotes THIRD-WORLD PUNKS ~ @third-world-punks Aesthetic |  A Dark Academia Aesthetic inspired by Latin America

[jstor]

100 open access books on JSTOR

African American Studies

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, Revised and Updated Edition

Disrupting Colonial Pedagogies: Theories and Transgressions

J. A. Rogers: Selected Writings

The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny

African Studies

Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa

Lagos Never Spoils: Nollywood and Nigerian City Life

American Indian Studies

Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History

The Urgency of Indigenous Values

Anthropology

Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement

Lacandón Maya in the Twenty-First Century: Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico's Tropical Rainforest

Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War

Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice

Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America

Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War over Land

Voices of Indigenuity

Archaeology

Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology

New Deal Archaeology in the West

The Cretan Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, volume III: Metal Objects from Gournia

Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological History

Architecture

Waterhouses: Landscapes, Housing, and the Making of Modern Lagos

Asian Studies

Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985

Communication Studies

Covid and…: How to Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic

Hillary Clinton's Career in Speeches: The Promises and Perils of Women's Rhetorical Adaptivity

Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance

Migrant World Making

Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting

Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now

Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907

Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives

Cultural Studies

Cultural History of British Alternative Cabaret (1979-1991)

Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Online Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel

Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis

Toward a Gameic World

Development Studies

Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar

Urban Indigeneities: Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century

Education

Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland

The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education

Environmental Studies

Ecologies of Imperialism

Unsettling Agribusiness: Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil

Feminist & Women's Studies

Reclaiming Time: The Transformative Politics of Feminist Temporalities

Recovering Women’s Past: New Epistemologies, New Ventures

Film Studies

Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema

Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream

The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century

Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity

Food Studies

The Visible Hands That Feed: Responsibility and Growth in the Food Sector

Gender Studies

Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939

Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940

Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1918

History

Captivity's Collections: Natural History and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade

Our People Are Warlike: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization

Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World: 1685-1896

Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi

Language & Literature

Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium

Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary History

Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism

Faking It: Victorian Documentary Novels

Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China

The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi, and Beyond

Understanding Agatha Christie

Latin American Studies

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Law

Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America

Linguistics

Cantonese Since the Nineteenth Century

Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in the Italian Publishing Field

Middle East Studies

Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces

Music

Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism

Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson

Lieder in America: On Stages and In Parlors

On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone

Peace & Conflict Studies

Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War

The Coup and the Palm Trees: Agrarian Conflict and Political Power in Honduras

The End of the Future: Trauma, Memory, and Reconciliation in Peruvian Amazonia

Uniting Against the Reich: The American Air War in Europe

Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam

Performing Arts

Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide

Staging Existence: Chekhov's Tetralogy

Philosophy

Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges

Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious: Vol. 2 The Affective Hypothesis

Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious: vol. 1, The Catharsis Hypothesis

Political Science

Beyond Othering: A Gandhian Approach to Conflict Resolution in India and Pakistan

Local government and democracy in the United Kingdom

Paradoxes of Emancipation: Radical Imagination and Space in Neoliberal Greece

The Cost of Voting in the American States

The New Star Chamber and Other Essays: Annotated Edition

Population Studies

Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century

Psychology

Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe

Public Health

Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness, Injury, and Healing in New York City, 1845–1870

Tuberculosis Control and Institutional Change in Shanghai, 1911–2011

Religion

Christan Colleges and Universities: An Empirical Guide

From Jesus to J-Setting: Religious and Sexual Fluidity among Young Black People

The Hispanic Faculty Experience: Opportunities for Growth and Retention in Christian Colleges and Universities

Science & Technology Studies

Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City

Sociology

Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence

As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity

Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa

Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana

Research as More Than Extraction: Knowledge Production and Gender-Based Violence in African Societies

The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line

Technology

Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and the role of Information Communication Technologies

Urban Studies

Living Politics in the City: Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space

[jstor]

FYI, all of these books were made open access as part of our Path to Open program, where included books are set to become open access three years after their publication date.

Many of the above books can be downloaded as PDFs in full!

[theenlightenedoutlaw]

[letthefairyinyoufly]

BRIDGERTON costume appreciation: 03/∞ ⤷ Kate Bridgerton in S4E6 "The Passing Winter" costume design by John Glaser

[teathattast]

[theeggoman]

Our girlfriend looks so pretty from outer space

[gothredy]

[lostinpaintings]

Garden at Giverny (1900) by Claude Monet. Now exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

[diaryofaphilosopher]

There is a popular but wholly mistaken assumption that being exiled is to be totally cut off, isolated, hopelessly separated from your place of origin. Would that surgically clean separation were true, because then at least you could have the consolation of knowing that what you have left behind is, in a sense, unthinkable and completely irrecoverable. The fact is that for most exiles the difficulty consists not simply in being forced to live away from home, but rather, given today's world, in living with the many reminders that you are in exile, that your home is not in fact so far away, and that the normal traffic of everyday contemporary life keeps you in constant but tantalizing and unfulfilled touch with the old place. The exile therefore exists in a median state, neither completely at one with the new setting nor fully disencumbered of the old, beset with half-involvements and half-detachments, nostalgic and sentimental on one level, an adept mimic or a secret outcast on another.

— Edward W. Said, Representations of the Intellectual.

Follow Diary of a Philosopher for more quotes!

[philosophika]

Today I learned some banks won't open accounts for me because I have dual citizenship...

It's very painful to hear my own country doesn’t want me. That I don't fully count. If I'm not yours, whose am I?

[smoothwhisper]

[nossumusstellae]

GLOVED FOX WRITER CHAT – March Edition – Revenge

It’s the IDES OF MARCH. And whomsoever shall get through this day, unless you are shot in the head, or somehow slain, you will stand at tiptoe when you hear the name again! Oh. Wait. Sorry. Wrong fandom. *ahem*

Where was I? Oh yes. Dear patrons... Does your world have a famous day? A leader celebrated, or a great disaster mourned? A great battle etched into the pages of history? Plague, that one King everyone hated, or that one odd weather event no one can explain. Share your world lore! (Bonus points if it involves knives in some way, the more the merrier >:) )

Bonus:

What is the most exciting revenge plot you have written? Did the person get what they deserved? What revenge does your character dream of, but cannot achieve?

(quote in italics from Due South)

Answer with reblog and tag with #glovedfoxwriterchat !

Because Tumbl did a thing with how reblogs and reblog notifs work, please REBLOG THIS POST so that we can see your answer! Otherwise I may not get a notif/your answer might get lost. I will do my best to keep track of the chat tag.

This might also be the last time I host this event. Unless the site changes are reversed, I fail to see how writeblr events are supposed to thrive.

EDIT. With the changes reversed, this event will continue - for as long as it can.

About Event post here

Last Month's Chat Question

Last Month's Chat Wrap

taglist!! (for possibly the last time)

@thebookishkiwi @sodaliteskull @purple-dinosaur27

@write-with-will @traderotales @foxgloves-garden @seaglasswrites

@starwright @tayrn-everwood

[sodaliteskull]

lolololol coming at this VERY LATE alas!

Since Shackle and Noose takes place almost exclusively in space, in transit from location to location, it's hard to keep track of what day it is when you're not on a world with a day and night cycle. Plus, the entire crew comes from different cultures with different calendars, so they use distance more than dates to keep track of how much time has passed.

HOWEVER! ☝️ I did come up with at least one major holiday for each race, just as a worldbuilding exercise to help figure out what was important to each (just gonna share a few, because I made A LOT):

ZYMETH Suncrest - The Zymeth homeworld, Celsus, really has only two seasons - sunny or rainy. During the rainy season, it’s common for everything to be so overcast that you can barely see the sun, and so the start of the sunny season is celebrated with a hippie dippy spring fair kind of vibe with communal dances out in the fields. NECUPOLE Commencement - Basically New Years. It’s the beginning of each Galactic Standard Cycle. They tend to celebrate with swanky dinner parties where they will brag about how well their finances did last year, and make predictions for how well they’ll do in the next (they always low ball these predictions because underselling but over delivering looks good). THALATTE Abao Baaps Du Borg’s Day - A celebration in honour of Abao Baaps Du Borg, the admiral responsible for expanding the Thalatte borders to where they currently are. Every year on their birthday, people celebrate with military parades and fair type setups. BERNETIGAN Unification Day - A yearly celebration of the last of the unique Bernetigan factions being wiped out, leading to total uniformity across the entire race. Families will celebrate with Thanksgiving style dinners at their homes, while leaders fill the airwaves with speeches about how great their race is.

As for revenge? The schmuck who almost got Rhea killed died as a nameless thug during a livestream, basically:

[expressions-of-nature]

by Mikhail Ioannisian

[meredithmcclaren]

Enjoy some selkies on this fine Irish day.

Description: An illustration of several seals milling around some mossy beach rocks. In the upper right corner we can see the legs of a person standing beside the seals. The fact that the seals are unbothered by their presence suggests familiarity.

[gentlekiss]

source

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 35, vol. 21, 1 septembre 1899, Paris. Initial letter. Bibliothèque nationale de France

[philosophika]

One of the main newspapers here just wrote a column on my aunt, who died a couple weeks ago, and I am very offended. She was a person first, not a magical "special needs" creature. Not a series of vague, inhuman attributes (no sense of time? No preferences? Wtf?). She was my aunt. A person, a full complete person. With a condition, sure. Same as I'm a person with a thyroid condition. But never some universal blueprint for middle-aged, upper-class, college-educated Bogotá women to pat themselves on the back for tolerating. Or to idealize to the point where they erase every aspect of who she actually was...