#foucault

finally here i share my

🫀 revolutionary books set🫀

which includes vintage covers and original inside pages for a series of mostly leftist /theoretical and some literary irl books! titles include the communist manifesto, gender trouble by judith butler, women, race & class by angela davis, orientalism by edward said, tolstoy's anna karenina, v for vendetta original comics, and many more.

fully functional and FREE!

all books have in-game effects: either skill increase or focused, inspired, flirty, or energized moodlets.

skills include logic, charisma, and research and debate

should be mostly base game compatible (but lmk if not and i'll do my best to address it), research and debate skill ones require Discover University EP

they are divided between leon's books and constance's books, since i created them primarily for my own and @chiamomo 's gameplay (constance is her OC). see below for the in-game previews:

but if your sims feel more literarily inclined, then i direct you to:

i made much fewer books for constance because the sims 4 already has a surprisingly wide selection of base game books about music, poetry, and parody versions of various irl literary classics that constance would be interested in reading. i felt a need to make leftist books particularly because there was none in the game (not surprisingly lol).

✨ download all here ✨

@alwaysfreecc

also shout out to @simkatu for creating such wonderful reading animation overrides for the sims 4!!

Like what is the reality of existing around a person who can hear your heart beating, who can hear your conversations at a distance, who can smell your fear/other emotions, who has immense institutional power and resources to monitor you, who may have psyker abilities that allow them to read your surface thoughts?

I think it would create a panopticon situation.

If you don't know, real quick: a panopticon was an 18th-century prison design created by a philosopher where there is a wheel-shaped building, with the cells forming the actual wheel and the guard tower in the middle as the spoke. It allows the guards visual access to the inmates at all times, but the inmates never know when they're being watched, so they have to assume they're being watched at all times to play it safe. Thus the inmates end up policing their own behavior even when not being directly monitored.

Then Michel Foucault later used the concept of the panopticon as a metaphor for how surveillance states operate.

So I think this would be the reality for Astartes and baseline humans around primarchs; you'd be perpetually monitoring/policing your own behavior, thoughts and feelings out of paranoia.

There's such a massive power imbalance there. This huge disparity in, like, access.