You're whirling in rags. You're vast and you're sad
Books I am reading
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon
- WALDEN, or LIFE IN THE WOODS, by David Henry Thoreau
- Information Visualization: Perception for Design, by Colin Ware
- Data Feminism, by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
This is my excerpt from books I read recently.
WALDEN, or LIFE IN THE WOODS
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!
Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Fear and Trembling
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
红拂夜奔
有关人随时在想什么，我只知道一个例子，就是我自己。别人不可能把一切都告诉我，所以我只好推己及人。在统计学上可以证明，以一个例子的样本来推论无限总体，这种方法十分之坏。安妮·弗兰克就犯了这种错误，从自己是善良的推出所有人都是善良的，虽然这份善良被深藏在心里，这个推论简直是黑色幽默。但是在这件事上没有别的方法了。到目前为止，没有一件事能让我相信我是对的，就是人生来有趣，过去有趣，渴望有趣，内心有趣却假装无趣。也没有一件事证明我是错的，让我相信人生来无趣，过去无趣现在也无趣，不喜欢有趣的事而且表里如一。所以到目前为止，我只能强忍着绝望活在这个世界上。
Data Feminism
The 7 principles of Data feminism
- Examine Power
- Challenge Power
- Elevate Emotion and Embodiment
- Rethink Binaries and Hierarchies
- Embrace Pluralism
- Consider Context
- Make Labor Visible
The matrix of domination (structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, interpersonal) works to uphold the undue privilege of dominant groups while unfairly oppressing minoritized groups.