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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 1h

Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us—but it might open our imaginations. — Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 399

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 8h

This chapter is an argument for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and for responsibility in their construction. (1/3) — Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto, p. 200

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 14h

Previously, scientists were dealing with statements. At the point of stabilisation, however, there appears to be both objects and statements about these objects. (1/6) — Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 201

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 18h

The claim that “mental illnesses are diagnosable disorders of the brain” is not based on scientific research; it is a lie, an error, or a naive revival of the somatic premise of the long-discredited humoral theory of disease. (1/3) — Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 5

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Psychological or spiritual naturalism [...] Human nature is such that man, or at least some men, do not want to live by bread alone, that they seek higher aims, spiritual aims. (1/7) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 117

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

two main ideas which underlie the doctrine that the source of all our knowledge is super-natural. The first of these ideas is false, I believe, while the second is true. (1/9) — Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, p. 52

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a condition to be described as natural at this historical juncture is no reason to assume that it cannot be changed. — Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 19

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think that Boltzmann’s idea is staggering in its boldness and beauty. But I also think that it is quite untenable, at least for a realist. It brands unidirectional change as an illusion. This makes the catastrophe of Hiroshima an illusion. (1/3) — Karl Popper, Unended Quest, p. 193

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Writing history is necessarily an interpretive process. What mathematicians in the past have thought and concluded has to be given some contemporary meaning or gloss if it is to be intelligible. (1/4) — David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 129

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Xenofeminism, or XF, can to some extent be viewed as a labour of bricolage, synthesizing cyberfeminism, posthumanism, accelerationism, neorationalism, materialist feminism, and so on, in an attempt to forge a project suited to contemporary political... (1/3) — Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 4

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Once the data sheet has been taken to the office for discussion, one can forget the several weeks of work by technicians and the hundreds of dollars which have gone into its production. (1/5) — Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 80

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

..they think that the very essence of Marxism is the doctrine that economic motives and especially class interest are the driving forces of history, and that it is precisely this doctrine to which the name 'materialistic... (1/8) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 430

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What were the effects of Charcot’s insistence that hysterics were ill and not malingering? (1/17) — Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 47

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have no language at present that does not reflect a Cartesian nature/nurture dichotomy for discussing sex differences. (1/3) — Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 101

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And even in our time, when such giants and fathers are dead, scientific debate is a contest for the language to announce what will count as public knowledge. […] Science is our myth. — Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 108

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism" — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xxxv

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In short, we may conclude that the psychologically minded psychiatrist and his organicist colleague, though often members of the same professional organizations, do not speak the same language and do not have the same interests. (1/2) — Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 144

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ironically enough, objectivity is closely bound up with the social aspect of scientific method, with the fact that science and scientific objectivity do not (and cannot) result from the attempts of an individual scientist to be... (1/9) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 570

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our theories, beginning with primitive myths and evolving into the theories of science, are indeed man-made, as Kant said. (1/7) — Karl Popper, Unended Quest, p. 70

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No science, however, can be better than its linguistic apparatus allows it to be. And the language of psychiatry (and psychoanalysis) is fundamentally unfaithful to its own subject: in it, imitating medicine comes before telling the truth. — Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 31

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dewey found what he wanted in turning away from philosophy as a distinctive activity altogether, and towards the ordinary world -the problems of men, freshly seen by discarding the distinctions which the philosophical tradition had... (1/6) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 55

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the wake of Nietzsche's questioning of "the will to truth" and Heidegger's questioning of the "metaphysics of presence," a series of critics (notably Derrida) have been trying to do away with the notion of "referent" and saying... (1/7) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 135

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The common root of all these problems is the fear that the manifold possibilities offered by discursive thought will play us false, will make us "lose contact" with the real. (1/6) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 131

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When we claim that there is, on one side, a natural world and, on the other, a human world, we are simply proposing to say, after the fact, that an arbitrary portion of the actors will be stripped of all action and that another portion, equally... (1/2) — Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 67

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Formal principles only feel special and privileged because of selective attention. Given new concerns and purposes and new preoccupations and ambitions, then the conditions exist for a readjustment. — David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 137

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our position is not unlike the opponents of vitalism in nineteenth-century biology. (1/5) — Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 190

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The chief problem with arguing this position from the point of view of social forces determining scientific stories from the 'outside' versus painstaking scientific practice clearing out bias from the 'inside' is that inside and... (1/2) — Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 124

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

De Lauretis drew on Charles Peirce's theories of semiosis to develop an approach to 'experience', one of the most problematic notions in modern feminism, that takes account both of experience's intimate embodiment and its mediation... (1/2) — Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 189

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Because Enlightenment thinking is often, though not always, associated with reform, education and change it tends to have a strong prescriptive and moralising flavour. (1/2) — David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 63

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Capitalist realism as I understand it cannot be confined to art or to the quasi-propagandistic way in which advertising functions. (1/2) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, p. 20

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Modern mathematics and number theory has some concern with kinds of numbers but nothing to compare with the cataloguing approach of the Pythagorean and later Platonist thinkers. (1/7) — David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 120

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It seems to me that I may be living too long. Indeed: my nearest relations have all died, and so have some of my best friends, and even some of my best pupils. However, I do not have a reason to complain. (1/2) — Karl Popper, Unended Quest, p. 239

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In sum, I have tried to show that therapeutic interventions have two faces: one is to heal the sick, the other is to control the wicked. (1/4) — Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 103

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan, who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the... (1/3) — Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 347

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Referring to the European Renaissance should also alert us to the particular Western history of binary analysis in general and of the pairs adopted here in particular. (1/3) — Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 150

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is a cultural fascination with animal indicators of toxic pollution that emphasize nonnormative gendered attributes (abnormally tiny alligator penises, intersex rats with unexpected nipples) or sexual behaviours (co-habiting ‘lesbian’ herring... (1/4) — Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 38

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everybody knows that I have taken pride in dialectics, and that I used to use this term before I came to this whirlwind. We can now appreciate that whoever speaks of dialectics is always evoking a substance. (1/2) — Jacques Lacan, Religions and the Real

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Diseases of the body have causes, such as infectious agents or nutritional deficiencies, and often can be prevented or cured by dealing with these causes. (1/2) — Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 12

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In view of all this I suggest that Baconian (and also Aristotelian) induction is the same, fundamentally, as Socratic maieutic; that is to say, the preparation of the mind by cleansing it of prejudices, in order to enable it to... (1/3) — Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, p. 30

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In his Introduction to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, Russell declares that “the essential business of language is to assert or deny facts.” Only a logician, mathematician, or natural scientist, or someone having these enterprises in mind,... (1/2) — Thomas Szasz, The myth of mental illness, p. 179

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One side of the tag, the side with the black-and-white bars, allows the product to be minutely tracked and assessed. (1/4) — Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 999

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Armillaria root rot spreads across whole forests, stimulating boasts of “the largest organism in the world.” Differentiating “individuals” becomes difficult, as these individuals contain many genetic signatures, helping the... (1/6) — Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 3416

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One never plunges into description except in order to act. — Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 58

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These same examples of the actuality of the notion of ideology, however, also render clear the reasons why today one hastens to renounce the notion of ideology: does not the critique of ideology involve a privileged place, somehow exempted... (1/5) — Slavoj Žižek, The Spectre of Ideology, p. 6

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Proponents of reproductive justice have eschewed a tight focus on fertility control in favour of building networks of solidarity around housing, employment, child care, and many other issues – all of which impact upon the ability to exercise... (1/3) — Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 92

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am certainly not arguing that the women whose work I have squeezed for my meanings have been unscientific in modelling human life or have imported in some illegitimate way the pollutions of women's interests into scientific... (1/3) — Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 142

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The issue between those who hanker after "objective," "value-free," "truly scientific" social science and those who think this should be replaced with something more hermeneutical is misdescribed as a quarrel about "method. (1/8) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 198

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There is a link between this field and the moment, Freud's moment, when it is revealed. (1/3) — Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 127

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It is simply that, in discovering these [transference] effects, analysis will make it possible to give them an experimental model that need not necessarily be at all different from the model I shall call the... (1/2) — Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 125

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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Francis Bacon was one of the great propagandists of science. He, along with others, was a bitter critic of what he saw as the degenerate scholasticism of the universities. (1/6) — David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 44

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