kesbeacon | 💡 Thought Provoked: introduction (Reply)

Hello hello! I am slowly shuffling back onto my various social media and trying to figure out what I want to do with them all. On here, well, it's for writing and I'm gonna write.

I spend huge swathes of time learning things and chewing over what I’ve learned; podcasts by a range of experts are my entertainment of choice at the moment. And I do form coherent thoughts in response to them, in response to world events, in response to things I read or even dreams I have, but I very rarely write them down.

Some of them I don’t actually want to write down yet. I have thoughts about power, reality, violence, and causality that I want to allow to percolate for some time longer and then maybe actually do something research-based and citeable about them. But a lot of them just sit there on the back burner not doing anything, and then I move on to the next episode or the next project and forget.

(I was also reading that supremely depressing Vox article on the pressure for a personal brand and the way we have to offer up Content to the Content ~~Gods~~ Algorithms if we want to make it as a creative, and, well. I do have a book to sell to publishers. And I was already, resignedly, putting together a marketing plan for Myself.)

So my Dreamwidth will host Thought Provoked, my little writing challenge to actually formulate some of my thoughts for 300 words a pop. Some will probably be half-baked. Others won’t ever see the light of day, whether because they’re bad or because I think they’re too spicy for the internet, which has a way of losing track of nuance and subtleties of argument. And I very much like nuance, along with ambiguity, interdisciplinarity, tension, and unlikely connections.

All presented, of course, with apologies to the people who have specialised in the fields I dabble in! I am, un/fortunately, allergic to specialising. Is any of this new? Doubt it! But it’s my blog and I’ll waffle if I want to. If you want to avoid Thought Provoked, avoid the little lightbulb icon in the title; if you want to read me having thinky-thoughts from before now, have a look at Barbie and the stain of masculinity.