{"id":97079,"date":"2025-12-14T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=97079"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:56:11","slug":"a-fire-upon-the-deep-and-the-identity-gradient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/12\/14\/a-fire-upon-the-deep-and-the-identity-gradient\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>A Fire Upon The Deep<\/em> and the Identity Gradient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fvorCR-nbtA?si=wHGCLabi8FjiINo6\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 8 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p>Vernor Vinge&#8217;s <em>A Fire Upon The Deep<\/em> would take a two-hour video to completely dissect. This is not that video. Instead, I&#8217;m looking just at the recurring ideas of collective identity and distributed consciousness. And all without a single mention of Skroderiders. <\/p>\n<p>This one has been sitting around for about a year, due to lack of b-roll to cover the numerous jumpcuts due to my rambling and the rather persistent flies on that particular day. It&#8217;s a little rough, but let&#8217;s just roll with it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 New Merch!  | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 8 Aug 2025 Vernor Vinge&#8217;s A Fire Upon The Deep would take a two-hour video to completely dissect. This is not that video. Instead, I&#8217;m looking just at the recurring ideas of collective identity and distributed consciousness. And all without a single mention of Skroderiders. This one has been sitting around for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28,44],"tags":[1593,139,85],"class_list":["post-97079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","category-space-science","tag-feralhistorian","tag-psychology","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pfN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99644,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97079\/revisions\/99644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}