Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) welcome T. X. Watson (any) for Gideon the Ninth, Act IV, Chapter 30. Gideon talks through some ideas with Palamedes. Dulcinea tells an unbelievable story. Judith makes a decision. You make some art at the end.

Content Warning: murder, manipulation, suicide, child neglect/abuse, dismemberment, incest, cannibalism, deception

Further Reading:

Jaume Aurell (2024) The Origins of the University: Questions of Identity and Historical Continuity

Minouche Shafik (1998) What We Owe to Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

Charles W. Mills (1997) The Racial Contract

Avgi Saketopoulou (2023) Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia

Brené Brown (2012) Listening to Shame

Rafia Zakaria (2024) Why Brené Brown's Gospel of Vulnerability Fails the World's Most Vulnerable

The Adventure Zone (2021) Amnesty - Episode 34 (excerpt: "One day you're gonna laugh at a joke")

Stefano Harney & Fred Moten (2013) The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study

Han Koehle (2026) Berkeley Legacies of Eugenics Annotated Conference Notes

Paul Provenza & Penn Jillette (2005) The Aristocrats (excerpt: "The Filthiest Joke Ever Told")

Immanuel Kant (1797) On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

Jeffrey Craynor and Sarah Griffin (2021) Start With This "Perceiving the Audience"

T.X. Watson (2026) Why don't the Humanities do experiments? (kinda clickbait)

T.X. Watson (2017) "The Boston Hearth Project" in Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation

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