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sebastianne and Luke and took them on a tour of our home's environs, the Kew Asylum and nearby grounds, including the bat colony by the river. It had been some months since we'd spent time in each other's company and it's always a great pleasure to engage with such a witty mind. I must think of some cunning plan to get her involved in politics and secularism again.
Following day I presented at a meeting of The Philosophy Forum on The Epistemology of Madness. Meeting went extremely well, very well attended and with excellent discussion. Those in attendence certainly seemed agreeable to notions that insanity cannot be equated with mere deviance, and that forms of incarceration is only justified under circumstances where it is causing harm. Also, as a matter of administrivia, the group unanimously decided not to be a subcommittee of the Unitarian church where we meet. Said organisation will kill themselves through bureaucracy.
After philosophy was a different sort of madness, this time in space via the game Eclipse Phase. I'd played in a session on Friday night where we continued our escapes outside the Mars TITAN Quarantine Zone. To up the ante I took the players in my game to the Jovian asteroids where they encountered the remains of a TITAN system along with (taking an old tip fromcheshirenoir, "stainless steel rats". The next step for the characters in my game will be the Jovian Republic, a sort of combination of North and South American conservativism - played with a nuanced view of the problems of posthuman and augmented intelligences, they certainly make a good argument.
Last night caught up with Jo H., and friends from Perth and went to see The Jesus and Mary Chain perform the thirtieth anniversary of their debut album Psychocandy (youtube) at The Forum, a particularly beautiful late noveau building with a fascinating history. In the near future I'll put a review up at Rocknerd, along with a planned review of Central Belters, a best-of album by Mogwai. Funk-punk political radicals, The Gang of Four are also playing at the same location in a few weeks, so I might end up there as well.
sebastianne and Luke and took them on a tour of our home's environs, the Kew Asylum and nearby grounds, including the bat colony by the river. It had been some months since we'd spent time in each other's company and it's always a great pleasure to engage with such a witty mind. I must think of some cunning plan to get her involved in politics and secularism again.Following day I presented at a meeting of The Philosophy Forum on The Epistemology of Madness. Meeting went extremely well, very well attended and with excellent discussion. Those in attendence certainly seemed agreeable to notions that insanity cannot be equated with mere deviance, and that forms of incarceration is only justified under circumstances where it is causing harm. Also, as a matter of administrivia, the group unanimously decided not to be a subcommittee of the Unitarian church where we meet. Said organisation will kill themselves through bureaucracy.
After philosophy was a different sort of madness, this time in space via the game Eclipse Phase. I'd played in a session on Friday night where we continued our escapes outside the Mars TITAN Quarantine Zone. To up the ante I took the players in my game to the Jovian asteroids where they encountered the remains of a TITAN system along with (taking an old tip from
cheshirenoir, "stainless steel rats". The next step for the characters in my game will be the Jovian Republic, a sort of combination of North and South American conservativism - played with a nuanced view of the problems of posthuman and augmented intelligences, they certainly make a good argument.Last night caught up with Jo H., and friends from Perth and went to see The Jesus and Mary Chain perform the thirtieth anniversary of their debut album Psychocandy (youtube) at The Forum, a particularly beautiful late noveau building with a fascinating history. In the near future I'll put a review up at Rocknerd, along with a planned review of Central Belters, a best-of album by Mogwai. Funk-punk political radicals, The Gang of Four are also playing at the same location in a few weeks, so I might end up there as well.
