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Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
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Another day, another fight about cocoa. 😩

Funny thing is all along whenever I interrupt... cacao discourse to talk about the spelling and pronunciation I'm used to ie cocoa, as a Nigerian from Ondo State, it's always been rather lighthearted on my part.

I've even read somewhere that cacao and
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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"Australia turned to Nauru, and under the agreement which was finalised earlier this year, the deportees are given a 30-year visa that allows them to work on the island and mix freely with its 12,500 inhabitants."

I've seen To Your Eternity and I know Jananda when I see it.
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Lol. This thing is called out-group homogeneity bias and this is perhaps the first time I've seen it negatively impact Black Brits in a "Black Brits too don't belong here" sense rather than the well-intended but unfortunately inaccurate "Oh you're African, so you can enjoy this thing we've
October 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Lol. This is so true and so funny.

...at academic conferences (etc.)... much of the conversation centers on all the issues the book or article under discussion failed to address.... Almost inevitably, the piece that was "left out" happens to be the focus of the critic's own scholarly agenda.
Let me use an example that is closer to home. My experience has been that, at academic conferences, reading groups or colloquia, or in humanities or law classes, much of the conversation centers on all the issues the book or article under discussion failed to address. Thus, we hear that the author left out a consideration of X, which would have complicated her analysis, or that she failed to recognize the ways in which issues of power were embedded in Y, so she missed a key part of what was "really" going on, etc. Almost inevitably, the piece that was "left out" happens to be the focus of the critic's own scholarly agenda. These are not sympathetic readings. Because human experience is widely varied and multi-faceted, there will always be aspects of an issue that are omitted in any given scholarly account. But instead of focusing on what the author failed to do, we might look at what her particular project was and see if we can form the best possible understanding of that project. I remember
October 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Such a great article.

"The contrary of suspicion... is faith...
... the second faith of one who has engaged in hermeneutics, faith that has undergone criticism, postcritical faith."

"Knowingness is a state of soul which prevents shudders of awe. It makes one immune to romantic enthusiasm."
IV. A HERMENEUTICS OF MEANING, FAITH, AND SYMPATHETIC INTERPRETATION Ricoeur contrasts the hermeneutics of suspicion with a hermeneutics of meaning. This hermeneutics is based on a conception of faith. In Ricoeur's words, "The contrary of suspicion, I will say bluntly, is faith. What faith? No longer, to be sure, the first faith of the simple soul, but rather the second faith of one who has engaged in hermeneutics, faith that has undergone criticism, postcritical faith."' 16 Such faith is difficult if one employs the hermeneutics of suspicion because such a skeptical approach tends to promote "knowingness" rather than belief. Once one has exposed or demystified a cultural practice, it will inevitably be more difficult to believe in that practice whole-heartedly. One might accept it as the best of a bunch of poor alternatives, but it will lose its power to inspire. As Rorty argues, "Knowingness is a state of soul which prevents shudders of awe. It makes one immune to romantic enthusiasm." '17 For example, he points out that it is difficult to be inspired by a cultural practice while at the same time viewing that practice "as the product of a mechanism of cultural production.""' 8 To view a work in this way, he contends, may yield understanding, but not self-transformation. The hermeneutics of suspicion tends to require that the cultural practices under observation be placed within the framework of the critic. But if a practice, such as the work of the United States Supreme Court, is to have inspirational value, it must be allowed to recontextualize much of what the observer previously thought she knew; it cannot, at least at first, be itself recontextualized by what the observer already believes.' 19 Thus, if we
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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I actually do think this app works for some people. People who view it as a refuge, an island of sanity, and as a sort of retirement home and that's its problem.

Reminds me of Tolkien's reflections on the elves as embalmers.

Not preservers, embalmers
September 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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😂 Vindication

Link if anyone is interested theconversation.com/deeply-relig...
Screenshot from Conversation article titled Deeply religious African countries (surprisingly) provide little state support to religion – unlike countries in Europe by David Jeffery-Schwikkard, King's College London A politician might use religious rhetoric, but this does not mean that it will translate into religious laws. Equally, some state support for religion is not unusual globally. Analyses of single policies need to keep this in mind. This research also upends the way many people normally think about secularism. Many people in Europe have become less religious. Consequently, European states are offered as models of secularism. However, this has it backwards. Despite their electorates being less religious, European states are more involved in religion than their counterparts in sub-Saharan African. If secularism is the separation of religion and the state, then countries in sub-Saharan Africa – which maintain a secular state despite widespread religion – are in fact the exemplar.
February 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Spent the past week at the University of Leiden attending the VSR X ELS Academy PhD Days and presenting my research on Vulnerability and Minority at the Annual Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Law & Society Association (VSR) later in the week!

Also got to meet @linnetelwin.bsky.social in person!
February 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Hi all,

I'm organising a workshop for my PhD on afrofeminist design and use of avatars on the 6th of December in London and would like to invite anyone here interested in futurism, gaming, inclusive tech design and media.

To learn more, please visit this link: sway.office.com/pUJ4ozT6hug3...
November 30, 2023 at 5:34 PM