I'm an obsessive fan of my friend Wisteria's deconstructed-cloud-rap music, which she makes sometimes with Klein (upcoming) and sometimes alone. It's imo hard to get what she's up to from any one track, so I made a little collection: t.co/H5HzrwAauz

Monthly reminder that if you're in England you have to see a Charlie Osborne show (arthouse-horror kabuki electronic music + film +mime + vocals hybrid performer), never seen nothing like it

It's very funny to me that Joshua Cohen is a New York writer whose deal is, like, being Jewish

Rocky Horror Picture Show is the film Herzog would have made if he weren't a poser

'Adorno has already worked this out' guys are wrong about everything except for questions about the autonomy of art, where yeah Adorno has already worked it out

Suddenly called to me

The actual Homeric view of war is ''war kills a lot of people but it also makes a lot of people cool so it's impossible to say if bad or not''

To me this is a good account of why philosophy as an activity rests on grounds that will fall apart if LLMs acquire certain capabilities, rather than (as intended) a defense of the autonomy of philosophy blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy

Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...

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Gf asked me what is the highest good for me and I said 'knowledge of the grounds of enthusiasm and suspicion' and she said 'that's what I thought you would say'

Come see me (among other signs and wonders) read an essay-poem!

Hate fan forums where people argue over what a song's lyrics are 'about,' because actually the subject matter of all artworks is the non-conceptual conditions for the possibility of concepts

I consider myself queer in that coming out as a person who thinks If You're Feeling Sinister is world-historically great took getting past a lot of lies and shame

Once every 5 years my mom asks me whether I've had sex with men yet

TS Eliot day at the London Tube where they say 'please mind the gap between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act'

Can finally do 'his work has been translated into [language], [language], and [language]' in my author bio

I'm obsessed with my London little sister Wisteria1234's ambient cover of Asleep (the Smiths song) m.soundcloud.com/wisteria123/...

asleep

Stream asleep by wisteria on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Paid the price of a car for Cole Escola run Oh Mary! (London) tickets, hope to God it's worth it

I had a really good baklava Tuesday night and now my sugar addiction is back

I think Hyperfixation Diaries might be doing a bit, because past the engagement-bait it's a collection of technical facts so anodyne that if it were a 'here's my problem with your talk' q in a talk I'd still be waiting for them to get to the problem il0vemilktea.substack.com/p/theory-rev...

theory review: peli grietzer

the most serious dive into the most mathematically misinformed literary theory on the internet

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Dunno about the rest of it but when I submitted my dissertation I've not left the house in 18 months because of psychogenic illness so the acks have an embarrassing line where I comfort myself with memory of having been invited to cool parties once

why did pound make great fascist art? because he had a rich relation to the heritage he was working with and a vision of human flourishing toward which he directed it

I'm an immovable doomer about meaningful human life if AI progress hits no limits. Yeah we'll have sports, intimacy, learning, and experience, but imo a world where the development of each and the development of all can't interact is not a world

You can be spiritual without personally engaging with high art, science, pop, avant-garde scenes, Theory, raves, math, posting, history, but we would each be spiritually hobbled if the culture as a whole lost one of these

My favorite thing is how The Odyssey has 50 verses about the Cyclopes being hermit pastoralist with no technology or civic institutions but then the Laestrygonians chapter is like 'this island did have tech and civic institutions but again, man-eating giants'

The problem with the Guardian top 100 novels list is that it's bourgeois garbage -- not a single Walter Scott novel?!?!

It seems to me like the English-language internet has not yet been turned on to the fact that the screenplay for the Bolsonaro biopic (starring Jim Caviezel) has been leaked to the press. It is... a fascinating document, let's say.

My 3 favorite songs rn are Strange by Galaxie 500, Beguiling the Hours by Flaming Tunes and Hit the North by The Fall

don't cry when you see the posts of someone who hasn't followed you back. smile because they haven't blocked you

Christopher Nolan will see heaven due to The Prestige, but it's going to be a close call

London bohemian/hipster life is treating me extremely weird it is the most embraced and most rejected I've felt in my life and every day here teaches me new ways to love and hate myself