remembering that people aren’t problems to solve - by Ava
Painting by Andy Dixon I was drawn to tech because I’ve always craved legibility: I like to deconstruct and analyze. When I read a book, whether it’s psychology or sociology or philosophy or fiction, I’m most often looking for answers. This is both a personal trait and a social modality. Eva Illouz articulated it better than I can in
Painting by Andy Dixon I was drawn to tech because I’ve always craved legibility: I like to deconstruct and analyze. When I read a book, whether it’s psychology or sociology or philosophy or fiction, I’m most often looking for answers. This is both a personal trait and a social modality. Eva Illouz articulated it better than I can in Hardcore Romance: My claim here is that a large extent of women’s culture is a variation of self-help culture, a toolkit to guide the self (via women’s magazines, self-help manuals, romance novels, talk shows), sometimes using therapeutic or spiritual…
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