Solidarity With Children

Cleaning fountain pens and listening to this banger Death Panel episode with the author of Solidarity With Children. I think a lot about this topic and I still got new ideas.

Great analysis of parallels between disability and childhood, infantilization and adultification in systems of oppression (gender, race, class, disability, etc), adulthood as an anti-utopian project, etc etc

No transcript yet 🙁

Deudles

I think on paper a lot and I often ask people what kinds of diagrams and doodles they use for thinking. You get different answers from people in different fields, and if you ask people in political theory or international relations they will say, “If you like conceptual diagrams you have to read Dan Deudney.”

So at long last I am reading Dan Deudney. (Well, I am looking at the pictures lol.) This is chapter one of Bounding Power and I am in diagram heaven!

Photo of part of a book page (Chapter 1, page 34) showing Figure 1.2, Anarchy, Government, and Anarchy.

A simple three panel diagram.

Panel 1: multiple dots. Caption: Pre-State Anarchy.

Panel 2: multiple dots enclosed in a circle. Caption: Authoritative Government.

Panel 3: multiple circles, each enclosing multiple dots. Caption: Anarchic State System.