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@battlepoet Hmmm, okay. I am kind of tired of love as the primary motivation in books (...that sounds wild when I write it down but I think it's true?) but I'm definitely down to try reading The Sorceress and the Cygnet. Adding it to my... far-too-tall TBR.

@battlepoet Do you have a favourite amongst the ones you've read? Maybe I'll start with that one!

Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.

Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.

Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.

This is actually a book I've been meaning to read for a while, since I took a feminist epistemology course in undergrad (checks time piece err, a few centuries ago now). It popped up in a recent Philosophy Tube video and the name of the author, Carole Pateman, reminded me of reading excerpts of her a million years ago. She's a second-wave feminist, so there is a lot to criticise too (I mean, let's not kid ourselves, Pateman hates sex workers, trans people, and a lot of queers), but I also think the book is an important puzzle piece in the philosophical discussion around what we owe each other as humans and deconstructing big time the ideas behind the Enlightenment-era social contract theory that, among other things, our legal system is arguably built on.

@malorie For sure. I actually seemed to have missed the whole Dahmer thing, which I'm glad for. (My head has been under a rock in the past few months.) For me, it's been prompted actually by the whole Tiger King series, as well as the proliferation of podcasts and Instagram/TikTok personalities rising to fame because they are somehow connected to serial killers (thinking in particular of American Melissa Moore, daughter of the man known as the "Happy Face Killer"). When does it get to the point that this weird mishmash of "infotainment", celebrity culture, and parasocial relationships made more prevalent/intimate through social media is actually just... harmful? En tout cas, heavy thoughts!