Conversation

Replying to
I haven't ~announced~ this, but I've been working on a zine / indie lit & art anthology called Clandestine Motives, about the potency of privacy, for the past few months. if all goes according to plan, launch will be in March but right now I'm like... what's the point 😞
4
44
I can use Twitter however I want so let's try riffing on a theme from Clandestine Motives and see what comes up it's been on my mind that privacy advocates steer away from the concept and term of SECRETS, whereas in practice secrecy is the kind of privacy people care about
1
33
secrets are deviant, illicit; maintaining a secret privileges the individual or conspiracy over the community or culture it makes me a lil itchy that comparatively anodyne "privacy" always gets top billing when "secrecy" captures the tradeoffs better
4
22
"two can keep a secret if one of them is dead" is a useful risk modeling assumption / heuristic it's not actually true. I have secrets that I'm currently keeping β€” both my own and others'. both affection and honor safeguard my confidences to others, however imperfectly
2
20
secrets hurt people all the time, but I want to express my conviction that secrets integral to the human soul (where the soul comes from / what it is materially / whether it's a material thing is immaterial and yes pun intended)
2
20
the title Clandestine Motives gets to what I fundamentally find fascinating and maddening about the world: wtf do y'all think you're doing? and how can I know? I can't, in part because humans are secretive creatures (and fractally so β€” the mind hides plenty within itself)
3
19
knowledge is power, right? we conceal our maps from each other when there seems to be an advantage in it, or when trust hasn't been established communication is both cooperative *and* adversarial by default. IMO
2
21