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Time to reread this!

An amazing book that I will need to track down a physical copy of so that I can go back to seek wisdom from it's pages. It's voice feels familiar yet it challenges the reader to see and interrogate their ties to place that we bring to our work. It explains a framework of research that foregrounds maintaining good relations and argues for the values of local and ungeneralizeable knowledge in anti-colonial scientific work. How that might apply to the readers context is a challenge left to the reader but I'm left feeling supporting in engaging with that work and I know the door to reflect on these ideas is always open between the covers.

First tarot deck i've owned and the second time I've read something on how to read it. I'm happy this one has heavy queer influences and am excited to get to use it in the future.

It's a strange emotion to feel sadness for the mistakes of a "mad" scientist, and yet this is what the trilogy has left with me. The loss of life caused by a specific analysis of the world left to ferment in the special privacy of a hyper-capitalist surveillance state is a tragedy that seems as real as today's mass shootings in a world where genomes are just blueprints for corporate profit-making. And yet there is hope in this story, and it is borne of fighting for survival in solidarity with the other creatures of earth. I can clearly see the influence this had on Borne, but I think this one might do a better job making the parallels to our world more explicit.

In this reread (kicking off my goal to read the trilogy) I was struck but the way in which materials were discussed. The danger of glass when one has no shoes, how an ointment had the thickness of mud, and of course the description of the flesh of a Nubbin.

I enjoyed the reflections on risk (who bears the burden and why) that mirrored some of my thoughts during this trying pandemic.