https://uthiopia-blog.vercel.app Essays, field notes, book reviews, and fiction. en Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:41:46 GMT https://uthiopia-blog.vercel.app/posts/i-wont-let-this-world-dull-me-to-its-horrors https://uthiopia-blog.vercel.app/posts/i-wont-let-this-world-dull-me-to-its-horrors The world dulls you in increments, one "it is what it is" at a time. A Taoist answer: do not resist the dulling and do not become it either. Be water. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://uthiopia-blog.vercel.app/posts/thinkers-dubois https://uthiopia-blog.vercel.app/posts/thinkers-dubois Part 22 of Thinkers You Should Know: W.E.B. Du Bois on double consciousness, The Souls of Black Folk, and a life that ended in Ghana on his own terms. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://uthiopia-blog.vercel.app/posts/maxwells-demon-steven-hall https://uthiopia-blog.vercel.app/posts/maxwells-demon-steven-hall A review of Steven Hall's Maxwell's Demon (2021): entropy, metafiction, a dead father's voicemail, and a book that lectures you and earns it. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://uthiopia-blog.vercel.app/posts/ass-taste-better-in-the-summertime https://uthiopia-blog.vercel.app/posts/ass-taste-better-in-the-summertime A post written in the register of ELUCID's Revelator: the cyberpunk dystopia already arrived as convenience, and the summer keeps coming anyway. Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT