~somasis

~somasis Kylie McClain 22 year old who likes philosophy, music, maps, and computers (sometimes)

Memory fades but our words are forever

Talking with Violet tonight I realized how scary things are sometimes. I’ve spent the greater portion of my life talking to people online. I’ve been on IRC since I was 10, younger than anyone really should be, and I’ve been using Discord for a few years now. IRC is a plain text protocol, you keep the logs and it isn’t really the responsibility of anyone else.

A reflection on the role of philosophy as therapy

In my project to assert gender studies and philosophy and being one in the same, with the help of my professor, we discovered a line of thought coursing through this concept that I myself didn’t really pick up on until it was put into words by her. What I was aiming at was to try and reconcile two different fields I had an interest in. In this reflection though, I want to explore that therapeutic current more.

Transness and Philosophy aren’t exclusive

In class this afternoon, I began to realize these thoughts and wrote them down frantically into my notebook, because something was bothering me that I couldn’t quite grasp fully. We were discussing Stoicism, but in particular, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. Discussing the use of nature in it, my professor started to speak of Aurelius' ideas of nature. Our class was taking issue with nature and naturalism’s current through Stoicism, which really ended up being more a current through Greek and Roman philosophy anyway.

Introducing…

Welcome! This is my new website. I became discontent with the way my old one was, since it mostly served as a landing page for all my other stuff. With this new site, I’m hoping to actually get into writing some things and finding a place to flesh out thoughts rather than just letting them sit around in my head.