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Welcome to the Circumpolar Congregation

This website/blog was created in order to “congregate” the sorts of activities I actively engage with (and I need a place to put citations). Whether it be a research video I’m working, an analysis of an anime, or some cool chess positions I encountered- this circumpolar sanctuary will be a place to organize my ideas. Of course, not every post will be catered to everyone- so tread my blog as you please.

While you’re here, a bit about myself:

Perhaps my academic career is a vague area to categorize, but I’m studying English Language and Literature in University. My courses comprise of rhetoric, linguistic, metaphor, and literature analysis. I find that this broad field of study provides various frameworks to interpret, describe, and provide for the fields of study we’re familiar with. You may think about STEM when it comes to progressive academics in the fields of concrete science, or an abstract study of arts, and everything in-between and outside of such established parameters. However, English studies emphasizes the need to incorporate an all-encompassing vision of human knowledge and categories, perhaps as a consequence of how the study of humanities is organized? How could you separate literature from history? How could you separate history from science? All the way around to the inability to separate science from literature. As you progress further into your fields of study, either you take a focused and closed approach to the web of connections, or you embrace and recognize its complexities. After all, we’re living in a chaotic open-system. How could we merely persuade ourselves that reality can either be view in a reductionistic approach, or even systems-thinking? As vague as the field of English studies are, I’m quite grateful that this field can pursue such an approach. I’m grateful that we can recognize that it’s vague.

Ocean Infographic sort of thing (work in progress): https://circumpolarcongregation.video.blog/ocean-info-page-work-in-progress/

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