The author returns to an isolated village in the mountains where his family came from to study the rural perspective and carry out agitation and propaganda amidst the peasants; either that, or consume a lot of food and drink while passing the time.
read moreFiction and disability from another angle
Some fictional works contain obvious references to disability, but sometimes it is more subtle. A shift of focus can make those works relate to disability much more strongly than it may at first appear.
read moreThe Golden Rod
The adventures of a gold fetishist.
read moreTouching and intimacy
Today’s society is dysfunctional about human relations and touch in particular. A mixture of trends including political and economic atomisation, the nuclear family, compulsory heterosexuality and perhaps technical development are removing touch from the common base of experience of adults and even some children. The results are not good.
read moreVilhjálmr’s Deed
A poem inspired by the folk song Willy’s Lady, written in my best approximation of the dróttkvœtt meter.
read more9 knots
Outline of a story based on a Scottish folk song about a witch’s curse.
read moreA very unusual dream
I recently had a very weird dream combining time travel, rhetoric, logic, and mediaeval scholasticism.
read moreNo laughing matter: suicide
I don’t know if it’s an odd coincidence, but I know a fairly large number of people who told me they were seriously considering ending their life. I’m completely unqualified to help them and I wonder how common it is out there. Something is seriously wrong with the world. (If you talked to me about it, don’t worry, there’s no private information on this post.)
read moreCould MMT stand for Marxist Monetary Theory?
Modern Monetary Theory presents us with a useful operational view of fiduciary money. Could it be made compatible with Marxism, that comes with a commodity money theory by default?
read moreA guest comes, a guest goes
A brief description of what it was like to host an IRC friend I met for the first time.
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