Post B2h3cGirbNPWC3UAu8 by nyx@social.xenofem.me
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 (DIR) Post #B2h3Nj2W2PB5fnk8J6 by morrigan@social.xenofem.me
       2026-01-27T00:26:24.646316Z
       
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       lights above i know this is obvious but the university-professor-student relationship is a piss poor way to learn anything about social sciences or philosophy or realistically fucking anything. i feel like im doing reverse window shopping from within the brain cage, as philosophies with the seeds of revolutionary thought are paraded by, separated and safe from contamination
       
 (DIR) Post #B2h3cGirbNPWC3UAu8 by nyx@social.xenofem.me
       2026-01-27T00:30:12.169690Z
       
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       @morrigan one of the many little pet projects I've had in my backlog has been trying to create some sort of space for engaging with philosophy that doesn't rely on trying to emulate the university but without any money at all, because it's just the student-professor relation but the entire concept of having to study a canon of works that are supposedly important and then talking-about them that is the problem with how philosophy (and also adjacent humanities stuff) is taught imo. it's good to engage with things that other people have written to orient yourself in a discussion, and it's good to be able to defer to people who have more knowledge of it than you to lead discussions or whatever, but ultimately the point of philosophy is to do philosophy, which is not the same thing as a book clubthough no matter how you slice this it'd still involve a fair amount of work on my part to do something like this and I've been working on being more realistic with my ambitions to focus on actually getting shit done