Agastya Gaya
@agastyagaya.com
210 followers 1.2K following 600 posts
✒️ Murakami : Mémoire d'une masculinité à ressort – Ludicité narrative, crise identitaire, érotisme de la différence 🪔 Advaitin 🙋🏽 Trans Amazigh 🪫 Low battery #MECFS 👁️‍🗨️ Graphic designer & bassist 📚 Postcolonial/queer/media/game studies 🇫🇷 Paris agastyagaya.com
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
agastyagaya.com
This is your disclaimer that I'll now post BDSM as a practice of my research and new artistic direction.
😈😇
agastyagaya.com
#postcolonialstudies #bookmark
sandeepbak.bsky.social
I referenced this Stuart Hall essay 👇🏽to pinpoint the arbitrariness of pre/colonial. Indigenous thinking has oft considered Eurocolonialism as solely *one* episode in their existence.
Anyhow, Hall’s essay exemplifies that we can articulate substantive disagreements 1/2
readingtheperiphery.org/hall/
When was ‘the post-colonial’? Thinking at the limit by Stuart Hall
Necessarily, we must dismiss those tendencies that encourage the consoling play of recognitions. Michel Foucault, ‘Nietzsche, Genealogy, History’ When was ‘the post-colonial’? What should be…
readingtheperiphery.org
agastyagaya.com
This year was hard. Here's where I'm gonna spend next year:
#acnh #animalcrossing #gamestudies #therapy
agastyagaya.com
Finally 🥲
drruth.bsky.social
In a proof-of-concept study, EpiSwitch®CFS blood test (3D DNA folding patterns) identified severe ME/CFS (vs healthy controls) with 96% accuracy. buff.ly/EyzOq11

Immune and inflammation pathways (e.g. IL-2, TNF) are key.

Larger studies on other inflammatory diseases are needed.

#medsky #MECFS 😷
Man with black hair is sleeping in bed with a blue pillow and comforter. Next to him is a hand with a blue glove holding up a blood sample. EpiSwitch CFS test.
Reposted by Agastya Gaya
lronlacy.bsky.social
#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1954
Cover illustration by S. Neil Fujita (1921-2010 👉ALT)
*Fortune*, October 1954
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #SNeilFujita #graphicdesign #design
‘[Fujita] was born in Waimea, Hawaii. He attended a boarding school in Honolulu, where he adopted the name Neil. He enrolled in Chouinard Art Institute, but his studies were interrupted by WWII & his forced relocation in 1942, first to the Pomona Assembly Centre outside Los Angeles & later to the Heart Mountain Relocation Centre in Wyoming. During his confinement, he worked as the art director of the camp newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1943. Fujita joined a prominent Philadelphia ad agency after completing his studies. He worked for Ayer for three years & during his tenure was awarded an Art Directors gold medal. Columbia Records hired him in 1954 to build a design department to build on the work of Alex Steinweiss who established the concept cover art. In 1957, Fujita left Columbia in order to broaden his portfolio. He taught design at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, ...'
https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021_01_10_archive.html
Reposted by Agastya Gaya
agastyagaya.com
#gamestudies #bookmark
stephentotilo.bsky.social
SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
www.gamefile.news
Reposted by Agastya Gaya
agamemnonpress.bsky.social
The Pastel House by Tim Molloy. You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy! This is our version of "you start in a tavern" pre-order The Quest Unpronounceable and Mr Unpronounceable Omnibus at AgamemnonPress.com #DnD #DnDArt #TTRPG
Reposted by Agastya Gaya
lromeranth.bsky.social
This reminds me of the fragments in the archives I have encountered of slaveowners, overseers, and colonial officials working themselves into paranoia and panic about colonized and/or enslaved people playing music or dancing.
agastyagaya.com
Que ton esprit trouve enfin le repos qu’aucune parole n’a su t’offrir.
Que le feu de ton intelligence cesse de se retourner contre toi,
et que la clarté que tu donnais aux autres éclaire à nouveau ton propre cœur.
Amine.
🙏🏽
agastyagaya.com
Hogwarts Legacy is on Game Pass. Playing it. Still, fxck you, JK.
Reposted by Agastya Gaya
nameshiv.bsky.social
American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement
rfksbrainworm.bsky.social
really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today
Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says
Reposted by Agastya Gaya
los-los.bsky.social
Just a reminder that this is a children’s Bible
Two male lions boarding Noah’s Ark
agastyagaya.com
I'm homebound about 90% of the time due to chronic illness. But you know what? I'm grateful to have the space, time, and (modest yet independent) means to spend my days reading. I'm blessed to live just one street from Paris — a city where I can access knowledge and different cultures anytime.
a cartoon of a lion and a pig swinging in a tree
ALT: a cartoon of a lion and a pig swinging in a tree
media.tenor.com
agastyagaya.com
I'll do my best to squeeze it 🙏🏽. I may leave running 😂
agastyagaya.com
I got my ticket yesterday, but just now I learned I have my Upadisha Sar class that day. 😔