Weekly Assemblage for 2025 Week 36
I use the ISO weeks from Monday to Monday, so ISO Week Week 36 is the week of 2025-09-01/2025-09-07.
Webmentions
This week I’ve been experimenting with Webmentions, using the Webmentions for Jekyll gem. Reilly Spitzfaden’s A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions has proven incredibly helpful and encouraging—thank you so much for writing up this tutorial, Reilly!
As far as I can tell through the Webmention.rocks test suite I’ve got Webmentions working. These webmentions can be displayed automatically, but having seen very nasty abuse, in addition to your garden-variety spam, via pingbacks, I’m still keen to moderate everything that might show up on my site.
I’ve connected Webmentions to my HCommons.social Mastodon account, meaning that I’ll be informed of likes, comments, or reposts of any posts I put there with links to things on my own website. The service that enables this connection, Bridgy, also makes it possible to automatically publish a Mastodon post when I publish something on my website—and as cool as that is, I’d prefer to post things manually, at least for the moment. I’d probably feel different if I wanted to connect my site to more external social media platforms.
Viewing, Listening, and Reading
Love, Untangled
Love, Untangled is a sweet, gentle, and (mostly) fun high school story set in late ’90s Busan. (I write “mostly” because there are brief depictions of domestic abuse and suicidal ideation; proceed accordingly and take care of yourselves, friends.) Awkwardness, unexpected honesty, unprovoked meanness—it definitely reminds me of my own high school memories, more compellingly than most similar stories.
10 Years of Acid Test
The 10 Years of Acid Test compilation has been the main soundtracks on our speakers and headphones this week. As far as I can tell, the songs on it are exclusive—and fantastic, provided you like squelchy electronic rhythm box jams.
Foucault’s The Order of Things
I’m re-reading The Order of Things for my exam lists and dissertation project, having read all but a couple chapters of it in a graduate seminar about 20 years ago. So far on this re-read, I’m already able to better see how Foucault’s project fits conceptually into both his own trajectory and alongside other thinkers of his time. A very good feeling!
TWI(R)L
This week I (re)learned…
- the word sagittal, via Foucault’s The Order of Things
- the word volute, via Foucault’s The Order of Things
- the word glebe, via Foucault’s The Order of Things
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