links

Here are some links that I find interesting. I’m also posting them here for safekeeping. I don’t necessarily endorse all of them.

闯 Chuang – journal on capitalism in China

10 Minute Mail – free anonymous temporary email service

ACME – “international journal of critical geographies”

Adbusters – “international collective […] smashing ads, fighting corruption and speaking truth to power”

Aeon – online magazine of work by leading thinkers on science, philosophy, society, and the arts (see also their associated magazine Psyche)

The Anarchist Library – exactly what it sounds like; occasionally good

Ancient Jew Review – web journal about ancient Judaism

Animal Studies – Suggestions for Reading – Richard Iveson’s recommended readings for people interested in animal studies

AnyDice – dice probability calculator

Archives of Nethys – a free compendium of official materials for Pathfinder 1e, Pathfinder 2e, and Starfinder

Arisbe – resources on the life and work of Charles Sanders Peirce

ASLU – American Sign Language dictionary and curricula

Astral Noize – publication about progressive causes and media analysis

Atlas Obscura – “definitive guide to the world’s hidden wonders”

Awesome Critical Tech Reading List – “an opinionated reading list for the critical programmer”

Awesome Falsehood – “a curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in”

The Baffler – a leading magazine of left-wing political criticism

The Bible and Critical Theory – publishes peer-reviewed articles about critical theory and biblical studies

Bible Summary – this guy actually tweeted a chapter of the Bible every day

Biblical Archaeology Society – “nonprofit, nondenominational, educational organization dedicated to the dissemination of information about archaeology in the Bible lands”

Biblical Bibliographies and Related Material – useful biblical studies resources maintained by Charles Conroy

Bibliographica Iranica – “a predominantly bibliographic blog for Iranian Studies”

Blue Labyrinths – an online magazine of essays focusing on literature, philosophy, and lots of theory

Boatmurdered – a particularly epic and hilarious Dwarf Fortress Let’s Play

Books, Health, and History – library blog of the New York Academy of Medicine

Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database – public online database of magical gems from the Roman Imperial period

Ceasefire – independent magazine for radical ideas, covering a wide range of topics

Center for Humane Technology – movement to reduce negative influence of pervasive tech on our lives; features a Take Control Toolkit

Chick Publications – honestly these fundamentalist Christian tracts are too ridiculous for me to find them offensive

Church Fathers Scripture Search Engine – tool to cross-reference Bible passages with the writings of the Church Fathers

Citation Matters – “updated reading list for a progressive environmental anthropology”

The Collective for Radical Death Studies – “an international, professional organization formed to decolonize Death studies and radicalize death practice”

Comics With Problems – scans of strange historic comics

Commens – digital companion to Peirce

Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute – “an online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s until now”

Correspondences – open access journal on the modern academic study of all things occult

Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D. – sociologist studying effective vegan activism

Critical China Scholars – viewpoints on China and politics

Critical Times – open access critical theory journal

CTheory – another open access critical theory journal

The Dark Mountain Project – publications about ecology and environmentalism

Databyss – freeform word processor and note-taking system

Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society– inactive journal on exactly what it sounds like

Digital Icons – journal on Russian, Eurasian, and Central European “new media” (digital and electronic)

Disability Studies Quarterly – open access journal of the Society for Disability Studies

e-flux – publishing platform for commentaries on art and culture, including the e-flux journal

Early Modern Medicine – blog about exactly what it sounds like

Eidolon – a sadly now-defunct publication about social justice in classics

eneruru – forum and resources for Mesopotamian studies

Epoché – digital philosophy magazine

Esoterica – inactive academic journal on esotericism

ETANA – open access sources on the ancient Near East

Exploding Appendix – artistic collaborative for the radical application of the avant-garde

Five Geek Social Fallacies – classic essay on common interpersonal issues found in “geek” and other communities

Forum for Philosophy – podcasts on science, politics, and culture from a philosophical perspective

Free e-book! – free e-books released each month by University of Chicago Press

Free Vintage Illustrations – curated vintage illustrations in the public domain

Freire Project – building international community around critical research and social justice

Giffyglyph – some homebrew supplements I like for D&D 5e

Glyph Drawing Club – online tool for custom type design

The Gnostic Society Library – primary documents, audio lectures, and notes pertaining to the Gnostic tradition

The H. P. Lovecraft Archive – writings of Lovecraft and the other work inspired by them

H-Net – international interdisciplinary organization for scholars and teachers, especially in the humanities and social sciences

Habitica – gamify your life

Hampton Institute – proletarian socialist think tank

Have I Been Pwned – check if your email or phone have been compromised in a data breach

The Hermetic Library – open access occultism, especially Hermeticism and Thelema

ID Documents Center procedures on name and gender changes in all US jurisdictions maintained by the National Center for Transgender Equality

Inscriptions – journal of the Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz

Institute for Social Ecology – provides educational programs for organizing based on principles of social ecology

The Institute of Queer Ecology – I actually have no idea what is going on here, but the aesthetic is nice

International Journal of Baudrillard Studies – a peer-reviewed, non-profit, transdisciplinary publication about the works of Jean Baudrillard

International Socialist Review – archive of this now-defunct journal of socialist issues

Internet Sacred Text Archive – huge (and legal) archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore, and the esoteric

Introduction to Critical Theory – Dino Felluga’s ancient website with various modules on critical theory concepts

Is That in the Bible? – personal blog for one layperson’s interest in biblical studies

Jewish Bible Quarterly – apparently the only “Jewish-sponsored English-language journal devoted exclusively to the Bible”

Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition – now-defunct journal by and for occultists

JPEG Artifact Generator – useful for making weirdcore material

Larry Hurtado’s Blog Archived – archived posts from a leading scholar of early Christology and textual criticism

lew.la – web tools for Discord, reddit, YouTube, and more

libcom.org – libertarian communist website posting activist tools, news, and readings

LiBER – Linear B documents from Knossos, Mycenae, Tiryns, and Midea (with more to come)

Lichess – free and open-source chess server

List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies – open access journals dating from the 18th century now available digitally

Literary Hub – daily essays on literature and literary life

Marcion – software for studying Gnostic and early Christian texts

Mark Fisher ReBlog – a tumblr archive of various articles and essays by Mark Fisher

Marxists Internet Archive – massive archive of transcribed and translated texts from many authors pertaining to Marxism

The Medieval Bestiary – medieval views of the nonhuman animal world

The Missouri Review – remarkably prestigious US literary magazine

The Monster Network – researchers with an interest in monsters and the monstrous

National Rural Health Association – publishes blogs and resources on rural public health

The New Centre for Research and Practice – educational group providing seminars for independent scholars and learners

New Compass – libertarian socialist writings on social ecology

The New Inquiry – online magazine of social issues

Nietzschemanteion – divination with Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

No Subject – encyclopedia of Lacanian psychoanalysis

NoSurf – resources for not wasting your entire life on the internet

Notes from Below – socialist publication dedicated to workers’ inquiry

Nursing Clio – collaborative blog on gender and medicine

Online Die Roller – by Brock Jones

Open Yale Courses – free, open access introductory courses from Yale University

open! – “platform that fosters and disseminates experimental knowledge on art, culture and the public domain”

Oracc – annotated and open corpus of cuneiform

OSINT Framework – open source intelligence tools

Othering & Belonging Institute – interdisciplinary team at UC Berkeley researching targeted universalist strategies

Parrhesia – journal of critical philosophy

Pathbuilder 2e – phone- and web-based apps for creating Pathfinder 2e characters

Pathfinder 2e Character Generator – simple generator of 1st-level Pathfinder 2e PCs

The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary – dictionary of the Sumerian language

The Posthumanities Hub – “platform for postdisciplinary humanities and more-than-human humanities”

The Postmodern Quaker – Quaker blog by George Amoss Jr.

Protean – leftist literary journal publishing online and print materials

Public Books – digital magazine to share academic discussions and ideas with a wider, more general audience

The Pudding – digital publication of visual essays

Quaker Religious Thought – online open-access journal of Quaker theology

Quaker Studies – similar to above

Quaker Theology – “progressive journal and forum for discussion and study”

Queer Death Studies Network – network of researchers studying ways of “‘queering’ traditional ways of approaching death”

Radical Philosophy – journal of exactly what it sounds like (see also the Radical Philosophy Archive for issues from 1972-2016)

Reading the China Dream – translated writings by “establishment” Chinese intellectuals

Refuge in Grief – resources for people struggling with grief and anxiety

Return to Cinder – database and index of many motifs and authors, focusing on and inspired by Jacques Derrida

Reusable Art – same as Free Vintage Illustrations

The Revealer – publication on religion and the media

Rhizomes – an independent, peer-reviewed online journal encouraging “migrations into new conceptual territories resulting from unpredictable juxtapositions”

Ribbonfarm – exercises in “disciplined solipsism and escapism”

Rural Health Research Gateway – federally funded research on rural health

Saints’ Books – quotes and full texts written by various saints

Samaritans – emotional support resource staffed by volunteers

San Antonio Review – “international literary, arts and ideas journal”

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research – exactly what it sounds like

Sea Green Zines – zine review blog

Sick of It! – disabled activists working toward prison abolition

Signo – topics in applied semiotics

Solid Ground – although based in the Seattle area, this website has resources for anyone in the US learning about housing

Somatosphere – website on “the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology and bioethics”

The Spheres 5E Wiki – wiki for an alternate magic and martial system for 5e TTRPGs

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – excellent scholarly overviews of philosophical topics

Studia Orientalia Electronica – “multidisciplinary journal publishing original research articles and reviews in all fields of Asian and African studies”

Symposium – semi-annual journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy; articles more than 2 years old can be found in its archives

This Is Black Metal – web zine devoted to the black metal subgenre

TiddlyWiki – an excellent system for non-linear journaling and note-taking

TheTorah.com – Torah study informed by academic scholarship

Worldbuilding Magazine – exactly what it sounds like

Worlds & Knowledges Otherwise – a web dossier of worldwide debates on “socio-economic, legal-political, and ethico-philosophical” issues

The Yellow Car Game – “official” site with rules

YES! Magazine – run by YES! Media, a “nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism”

Zine Making – a Wikibooks guide

Zines 101 – zines about making zines