Stray thoughts under partial quarantine

luka

luka

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The acronym BAME feels very administrative to me. Like a box you'd tick on a concentration camp form. I see it on the guardian website and it feels very dehumanising.
 
Leo

Leo

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and the implication that all non-white people can be grouped because, hey, they're all the same, right?
 
luka

luka

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I took my bike out today for the first time in years. Felt pretty good.

The first stage of the lockdown was called filling in the map. This involved walking down all the streets in your immediate vicinity you hadn't been down before.

This next stage is called enlarging the circumference of your territory. Very exciting. Every day is an adventure.
 
luka

luka

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Filling in the map is very, very magical.



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12-2019, 10:06 PM #32 luka luka is online now
Beast of Burden

There's something to be said here about 'revealing the map' in a more literal sense and the strange way discovering new places in the area you live feels like you are unlocking hitherto hidden parts of your own mind. As if there is a one to one correlation.
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https://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=15090&page=3&highlight=Walking
 
luka

luka

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I suppose this whole process has been an enforced dopamine detox for most of us. No booze, no drugs, no smartphone, strictly rationed Internet, no processed food, no shopping, no social interaction etc etc
 
luka

luka

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Ive been 'meditating' 15 - 20 minutes first thing in the morning after having a piss. I have to put it in inverted commas because I don't think I'm very good at it. Then I have my coffee and I read my book. I've been reading Discipline and Punish by Foucault which is going very slowly. Not sure why because it's quite fun and not that dense. He talks about lock down and plague a bit which is a nice coincidence. Then I have a look online, answer emails that need answering, do a bit here. Then I switch the wifi off for six hours and stare at the wall etc.

Reading that back its maybe the most boring thing I've ever written on this forum.
 
C

catalog

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I didn't realise that the etymological root for 'quarantine' is 40. We're still a way off from 40, but it's interesting the connection with religion. It seems you need 40 days to achieve something
 
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