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Jens Prausnitz

Oh nein, jetzt hat es auch mich erwischt: Ich hab jetzt Newsletter! Hört auf den Namen “Zettelwirtschaft” und enthält neben kuratierten Kulturtipps den einen oder anderen aktuellen Gedankengang. Kostenlos und nur 1x im Monat. Na gut, eine uralte oder brandneue Kurzgeschichte gibt’s zwischendurch auch noch. Schaut mal rein: jensprausnitz.de/2025/zettelwi

Das eilig zusammengekloppte Logo des Zettelwirtschaft-Newsletters vor dem unscharfen Fotohintergrund meiner ausgebreiteten tatsächlichen Zettelwirtschaft, weil mir alle extra und nur zu diesem Zweck angeschafften Notizbücher zu schade dafür sind. Ich werd’s einfach nie lernen.
#Newsletter#Zettelwirtschaft#Kulturtipps
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Roseline Mgbodichinma is mourning her aunt. In her beautiful essay for @thexylom, she writes about grief, the need for witnesses in death, and a Nigerian vegetable soup called egburegbu, the translation of which is “cut” or “kill.”

“[My aunt] loved egburegbu and on the days we cooked it, she would sit cross-legged in the kitchen, patiently waiting for a serving of her favourite soup. This is how I choose to remember her, as someone who loved without caring about the origins of the life around her, or how it will all end.”

thexylom.com/post/perspective-

#Bereavement #Grief #Death #Essays #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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The Xylom · Perspective: Grief Grows, Like UguBy Roseline Mgbodichinma Anya Okorie
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Political Jouissance by Slavoj Žižek, 2024

When we oppose or disagree with something important, do we ever really do it dispassionately? Isn't setting the world to rights or condemning a political opponent always done with a hint of relish, or at least enthusiasm? This book's challenging essays explore the modes in which that transgressive pleasure of political 'jouissance' operates.

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Rather than delegitimizing or depoliticising, the tacit enjoyment of outrage can in fact facilitate different forms of engagement. The tendency for groups to be bonded by a common enemy, for example, brings with it a protection from censure or persecution, and a way of alleviating guilt. In this collection, the authors seek out jouissance in the battle against patriarchy, in social revolts, in the age of mechanical surveillance, in the necrosociety of neoliberalism, or the proliferation of conspiracy theories.
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Garth Coghlan

finished reading The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Essays on the author's experience of schizophrenia (along with bipolar, PTSD & chronic Lyme!) in the US. Fascinating & unsettling view into psychiatric hospitals, mental health 'support' in Ivy League colleges, and what the hell a psychotic break feels like. Blimey.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Essays #Autobiography #MentalHealth #Schizophrenia

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

ReviewDBBook - The Collected Schizophrenias: EssaysAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected
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Morality and Self-Interest Edited by Paul Bloomfield, 2007

Ever since "Know Thyself" was inscribed at Delphi, Western philosophers have struggled to understand the relations between morality and self-interest. This edited volume of essays pushes forward one of the oldest and most important debates in philosophy. Is morality a check on self-interest or is it in one's self interest to be moral?

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Can morality and self-interest be understood independently of each other? Christopher Morris, The Trouble With Justice Mathias Risse, Nietzsche on Selfishness, Justice, and the Duties of the Higher Men Richard Joyce, Morality, Schmorality David Schmidtz, Because It's Right Thomas Nagel, The Value of Inviolability Samuel Scheffler, Potential Congruence Stephen Finlay, Too Much Morality Terence Irwin Scotus and the Possibility of Moral Motivation Ralph Wedgwood, Butler on Virtue, Self Interest, and Human Nature Julia Annas, Virtue Ethics and the Charge of Egoism W.D. Falk, Morality, Self, and Others Paul Bloomfield, Why It's Bad To Be Bad Joel Kupperman, Classical and Sour Forms of Virtue Michael Stocker, Shame and Guilt; Self Interest and Morality
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The Zinn Reader Writings on Disobedience and Democracy by Howard Zinn, 2009

Historian, leftist activist, author of the popular People's History of the United States (New Pr., 1995) and other works of history, politics, and drama, retired professor Zinn has compiled 61 previously published essays on various historical topics and illuminates here his passionate commitment to social justice and political and economic democracy.

archive.org/details/zinnreader

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The essays are arranged in six categories: race, class, war, law, history, and "means and ends." Lucid and at times poignant, they convey Zinn's belief that a historian's judgment about what should be written reflects her or his values. Some of the riveting events covered include the social revolution of the Civil Rights Movement, Allied atrocities during World War II, the murderous suppression of the Attica, New York, prison rebellion, and the hagiographic persistence of the Christopher Columbus narrative. Recommended for academic and public libraries.?Charles L. Lumpkins, Bloomsburg Univ. Lib., Pa. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews A welcome collection of essays and occasional pieces by the dean of radical American historians. This portly tome is primarily intended for the Howard Zinn faithful, of course, of whom there are likely to be many; his People's History of the United States has sold 400,000 copies, after all. For the uninitiated, this collection offers a useful introduction to Zinn's idealistic, Marxist-anarchist view of the world, a view he has championed for many decades.
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Travis F W

I think you should be interested if you want to publish #essays, #poetry, #articles, #newsletters, news, and essentially anything that could fit the old #blog paradigm.

One significant difference is that the character limit will be discarded for a pixel limit. A post will be a page. A thread may be downloaded as an #epub.

Code snippets will be a first-class entity for tech lit.
Scientific references will be a first-class entity for science lit.
If you're a writer, you will have what you need.

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The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2013

Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her
customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings.

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#LeGuin

The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading. From Booklist Le Guin is stimulating company. A profoundly creative and prolific fiction writer who has won a half-dozen major awards and enticed readers to science fiction who otherwise might not have ventured into that fantastic terrain, she is also a forthright, incisive, and funny essayist. In her second nonfiction collection, a piquant, morally lucid, and enlivening volume graced with a well-chosen phrase of Virginia Woolf's, Le Guin considers the pleasures and significance of reading, the true meaning of literacy, the power of the imagination, and the writer's responsibility. On a memoiristic note, she remembers her anthropologist father and Native American family friends. On the literary plane, she praises libraries as sacred places that embody freedom, pays homage to Borges and Twain, dissects the assumptions behind the designation "creative nonfiction," and analyzes the "rhythms of prose." And Le Guin is breathtakingly hilarious on the subjects of age, beauty, and womanhood. Candid, earthy, and deeply involved in the human experience, Le Guin is artist, mentor, and friend. Donna Seaman
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Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope by Catherine Coleman Flowers, 2025

An inspiring collection of essays, personal and political, from the leading environmental justice activist of our time, that frames the challenges we face as a society and—with grace, generosity, and hope—charts the way toward equity, respect, and a brighter future.

@bookstodon
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Described by Bryan Stevenson as “the center of the quest for environmental justice in America,” Catherine Coleman Flowers has dedicated her life to fighting for the most vulnerable communities—rural, poor, of color—who have been deprived of the basic civil right to a clean, safe, and sustainable environment. Both deeply personal and urgently political, the essays in Holy Ground draw on history to illuminate and contextualize the most pressing issues of this moment: from climate change to human rights, from rural poverty to reproductive justice, from the notorious history of Lowndes County, Alabama, to the broader crisis of racialized disinvestment in the South. Flowers maps the distance and direction toward justice, examining her own diverse ancestry as evidence of our interconnectedness. She reflects on trailblazers who have fought for social and environmental justice. She writes about her mother, a civil rights activist who lost her life to gun violence, and her own deeply personal experience with reproductive justice. And in a remarkably candid and moving piece, she writes about a traumatic attack that occurred at a moment of collective triumph, in which she weighs her fight for the common good against her own well-being. Flowers’s faith shines throughout the collection, guiding her work and inspiring her vision of our responsibility to one another and to our shared home.
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The World Wasn’t Ready for the Nuance of Dragon Age II’s Bisexuality

Anders is one of the most maligned characters in the beloved Dragon Age franchise—moreso than some of the cast's other colorful characters, like the crass, deadbeat Oghren or Blackwall, who commits the cardinal sins of being both a liar and a

sidequest.zone/2025/02/25/the-

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Fifi Schwarz 🖤🇪🇺 🍉✊🏿🌈🌍

‘without any of the reassurance that comes from social acceptance or the bliss of cohesion, how do you know how to be?’
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 10/52 ★★★★☆

Here's why I recomend this book 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 :
goodreads.com/book/show/587004

En hier lees je dat in 🇳🇱:
verzameldezinnen.nl/2025/02/16

#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Essays #SpokenWord

Boekomslag Kae Tempest - On Connection
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The Weaver

Some other interests are #Marxism, #Psychoanalysis, #AfricanLit, #PoliticalEconomy, #Degrowth, #Accelerationism, #Consciousness, #ArabStudies, #Nature, #Biology, #Cosmology and #Quantum, #Surrealism, #Modernism, and #Romanticism.

Language of the accounts can be broad. I can read #English, #French, and #Spanish fluently, and #Arabic reasonably well.

I am a huge advocate for shorter writings. I’m all about #ShortStories and #Essays, and I’d love to follow these sorts of accounts.

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Amalia Zeichnerin

Ich mache ein Give-Away für meinen Essayband "Diversity in der Literatur" (aus dem Jahr 2020).

Diesen könnt ihr hier gratis als E-Book (Format: epub) oder PDF herunterladen:

bit.ly/diversity_in_der_litera

Der Link führt zu meiner Dropbox. Es ist für den Download des Buches nicht erforderlich, sich dort zu registrieren oder einzuloggen.

Mehr zu diesem Buch im Bild (mit ALT-Text).

Gern boosten. Danke.

Diversity in der Literatur: Essays In diesem Essay-Band geht es um Diversität und Inklusion in der Literatur, Repräsentation von marginalisierten Menschen (z.B. queer/LGBTIAQ*, Menschen mit Behinderung, Neurodiversität, chronischen Erkrankungen u.a.). Weitere Themen sind Inhaltswarnungen, problematische Handlungsmuster (Tropes), Konsens, Sensitivity Reading, die Freiheit der Kunst, Weltenbau in der Phantastik und noch einiges mehr. Ich bin intersektional; Teil mehrerer marginalisierter Gruppen. Ich möchte anderen Autor*innen Anregungen und Gedankenanstöße für mehr Diversität in ihren Werken bieten. Zu den Essays gibt es weiterführende Literatur, auch in einem Anhang.
#Diversity#Vielfalt#Diversität
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

Question about what y’ll think of when you hear the word “blog.”

I have a site where I publish my articles and essays. They’re all in-depth. No small posts, no comments, and no categories (although I do use tags).

Should I be calling that site a blog?

I never do because that feels incorrect. Especially because it doesn’t fit the model of that format. But I’ve been wondering what makes sense.

markwrites.io

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Mark W.ritesMark W.ritesArticles and essays on design, technology, and my POV of the world. For shorter bursts find me on Mastodon.
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