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Michel Foucault – who decides the categories?
When discussing the power of characterization and categorization, Michel Foucault is the contemporary authority on the subject. -
Judith Butler – Gender as a performance
Judith Butler builds off of previous research to build a theory of gender as a flexible and changing expression of the self, as opposed to a stable identity. -
Kessler and McKenna - the subjective categorization of gender
Kessler and McKenna observed the importance of determining another person’s gender in their work "The Primacy of Gender Attribution." -
2020-02: DIY Cocktail Party
For my 25th birthday I hosted a diy-cocktail party. -
Simone De Beauvoir - a critique of historical Western philosophy
As we saw in the posts on the Western history of gender, philosophers largely viewed women as flawed humans, but classified men as practically divine and supremely logical beings operating beyond their mortal coils.
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2020-01: All the sous vide
I sometimes take the opportunity to cook more ambitiously. In January, I challenged myself to a small dinner party with some high-school friends. -
St. Augestine and head coverings
St. Augestine resolves a contradiction in the ways that women and men are treated differently by the church with a new theory of mind. -
Genesis: Two make one
The story of humankind’s creation, as told in Genesis I and Genesis II, is another key way that our ideas of gender have been shaped in the last few millennia.
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Aristotle's One Sex Theory
In *Generation of Animals*, Aristotle establishes a new theory of sex to explain the differences between men and women. -
Gender: Flip the script
Although historical interpretations of gender have continued to broadly influence our culture, modern and contemporary philosophers have expanded the discipline, providing more nuanced understandings of human biology, psychology, and sociology. -
Gender Mythology
The current gendered roles in Western society that we assign to men and women have a deep history, and the ways that the ideas of Western philosophers from thousands of years ago still effect society is astonishing. -
Fluorine - A Reactive Application Engine
A year ago, I started to create a framework in Golang for developing 3-dimensional real-time applications (for example, a game) using pseudo-functional concepts instead of the object-oriented style that is commonly used. It was a cool learning project that got put aside, but after thinking about it for the last eight months I wanted to pick it up and share some thoughts on how it will be designed in the future.
Tristan Potter
