dug up some old poems to resurrect
Just some authors, poems, artists & such I am thinking about a lot right now. Generally, they are sorted based on personal whims.
Artist = I respect this person because their work makes me fall in love with the world over and over again.
Theorist = I respect this person because their work makes me have new ideas and see things differently every time I consider it.
Dead humans have no feelings, I think, but their surviving families sure do. Please be kind if you chose to interact with the work of these writers. Either way, I will tolerate no attempts to dox, harass, or otherwise make uncomfortable any living human being. I have little power but infinite care and much rage.
Leaves of Grass is an unlocked vault full of the tenderest moss-covered rocks.
Lost in the Cosmos cracked my egg with a baseball bat made of burning iron.
is 5 is currently my tiger's favorite chew toy.
I could fight his ideas and win, I think, given enough time
Spring and All is basically mulch for the garden I love to dance with wolves inside of.
As I Lay Dying was once my oxygen mask.
My octopus brain loves Ubik.
Portraits and Repetition, Tender Buttons, the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas -- she never misses.
Danez Smith - active art crush. No one tell them. Never tell them bc I would pass away from gayness immediately.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs - amazing author. M Archive broke my brain in the best possible way.
Ocean Vuong - need I say more? I refuse do to so.
normalhoroscopes - https://www.patreon.com/c/cryptotheism/home
Drawfee, their mods, and their crew - https://www.patreon.com/c/drawfee/posts
Greater Than Games - https://www.greaterthangames.com/
These are real people with real lives. Do not attempt to harm them or I will find you and expel you from the Loft so fast you'll be confused about what happened. This is a threat.
German theorists:
Ludwig Wittgenstein (in Philosophical Investigations, not the Tractatus)
Frederich Nietzsche
Sigmund Freud (blame the psychoanalysts, not the psychoanalysis)
American theorists:
Richard Rorty
Eve Sedgwick
Gloria Anzaldúa
John Rawls
Eve Sedgwick
French theorists:
Roland Barthes
Jacques Lacan
Michel Foucault
Jacques Derrida
XKCD - https://xkcd.com/
Kandi Zeller - author of Disabled Witchcraft: 90 Rituals for Limited-Spoon Practicioners
Brown University faculty, staff, alums, and affiliated thinkers, including but limited to: former Dean of the College Rashid Zia, Timothy Shiner, Joel Simundich, Ivone Aubin, Amari Boyd, Love Wallace, Lindsay Garcia, English Department Chair Richard Rambuss, Prof. Deak Nabers, Prof. Kevin Quashie, Prof. Ada Smailbegovic, Prof. Benjamin Parker, Prof. Kate Schapira, PhD candidate Ilan Ben-Meir, Prof. Jim Egan (particularly for inspiring syllabus design and teaching), that one CS prof (for CS19), everyone who has ever answered a phone or a question in the Dean of the College's office, many former and current students, and many others who I may have forgotten here.
Other teachers I have known, especially: Graham Culbertson, Joseph Wensink, Ilan Ben-Meir, John Paul Gibson.
hillbillyoracle on tumblr
That guy at CMU who wrote that one paper about how autistic workers use LLMs.
Kandi Zeller
Jack Halberstam
Michael Warner
I have to consult a syllabus or five before I go on...
These are real people with real lives. Do not attempt to harm them or I will find you and expel you from the Loft so fast you'll be confused about what happened. This is a threat.
(The list above is organized carefully to direct recognition to those who deserve it. And protect those I love. The earlier someone appears in the list, the more well-known their work is. The later someone appears in the list, the more confident I am they can protect themselves against malicious actors online and would not be annoyed to be mentioned here.)