Notes
1: In Defence Of Street Crime
David Foster Wallace is paraphrased.
2: The Corruption Of My Understanding
Leonard Cohen is paraphrased
Townes Van Vandt is quoted
Reactionary Review: Swift
I was not aware that Ferguson had actually written a book called Bamboozled, I was positing that she might have released a novelisation of the Spike Lee film of the same name.
6: The Addiction Of Stigma
The term “para” is shorthand for “junkie”. It is either derivative from “parasite” or “paranoid” but mostly it is used as a complete term, a derogative, without any thought or knowledge of it's origin.
Philip K. Dick is quoted.
9: Life on LIfe's Terms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
Durkheim is referenced and partially quoted
Rescue Blues by Ryan Adams is hinted at
“And everybody wants to see you fall That's why they always love to get you high And everybody knows you need the pain So much, lady Well, keep in touch, baby Just don't charge me with your rescue blues”
10: An Understanding Of Lack
Escape Is So Simple by The Cowboy Junkies is name checked.
“Escape is so simple in a world where sunsets can be raced. But distance only looses the knife The pattern of its scar can always be traced.”
Guns Don't Kill People
A List Of Inputs
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Descartes, René.
Dick, Philip K. “How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later.” Speech, 1978.
Favaro, Marina, and Jack Clark. “When AI Builds Itself.” Anthropic Institute, 5 June 2026.
Grosfoguel, Ramón. “Decolonizing Political-Economy and Postcolonial Studies: Transmodernity, Border Thinking, and Global Coloniality.” Tabula Rasa, no. 4 (2006): 17–48.
Henrich, Joseph, Steven J. Heine, and Ara Norenzayan. “The Weirdest People in the World?” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, no. 2–3 (2010): 61–83.
The Independent. “Anthropic says something unsettling has been happening to Claude.”
itsmetony007. Reddit post, June 2026.
Mbembe, Achille. “Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive.” Public lecture, WISER, University of the Witwatersrand, 2015.
Mignolo, Walter D. “The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference.” South Atlantic Quarterly 101, no. 1 (2002): 57–96.
Plath, Sylvia. “Mirror.” In Crossing the Water. 1971.
Skynet / The Terminator. 1984.
Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. 1996.
Wallace, David Foster. “Ticket to the Fair.” Harper's, 1994.
Young, Roger. “You are walking on graves.” City Press, 24 September 2014.
Young, Roger. Complicity. bios.net.za, 2026.
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