Conditionally Relevant

Kia ora koutou. It appears I have awoken a blog. Due to the increasingly chaotic scene on Twitter, I have found I needed a new outlet. While this blog doesn’t afford us the same social interactional setting as Twitter does, I think the microblogging thing was never really going to be for me; its not natural for this one to be in possession of the momentary opinions of thousands of people every minute. So, I want to try my hand at this. I’m not sure how well I’ll keep up with it, or if anyone will ultimately be interested in what I share on here, but I think the change of pace to one where I’m more able to elaborate on my own thunks will be a motivation and boon.

What can you expect to see here? Well, probably a wild assortment of stuff. I definitely intend to have longer-form thoughts about topics or events that are within my academic wheelhouse, so hopefully that means ethnomethodological commentary on psychological stuff, neurodiversity, gender, and associated discriminations etc. I’d like to do more pop EMCA (Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis), unpicking cases of weird things people do, especially in the media or the news/current events. As well as this public academic type stuff, I will also likely share non-academic personal stuff too. So you will likely hear about my attempts to engage with weird philosophy, occultism/magic/mysticism/religion stuff, thoughts on experiences with video games/books/films/etc. Something I really want to do is return to my first true passion, conlanging. I’m not a linguist and don’t really care to be so, you can look forward to me fudging my way through a language.

This blog is primarily for me. I hope to develop habits that get me actually writing, but also engaging more fully with my life and interests such that I have things to write. I feel this will help to counter some of the creeping fog of capitalist realism in my brain. If you join me, that’d be very cool, too.