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Forthcoming rebrand to confuse all who follow
January 26, 2026 at 9:22 AM
The affective core of the conservative intellectual project is an aversion to complexity
January 21, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Has anyone here read Francois Jullien. Thinking of adding his works to my ever growing list.
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 AM
I've been trying to think about the thinkers who have been profoundly influential on me. It's embarrassing in a way how clearly continentalist my early education was.
January 21, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Read the words "listen with the qi" and experienced and insane surge of energy
January 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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It's sad how quickly the USA went right to the "armed thugs going door to door looking for frightened teenage girl in the attic" stage of fascism.
January 12, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I've been reading Wittgenstein for a while now. It was so I could read Cavell and have a better idea of what he was talking about. But I'm getting really sick of Wittgenstein. But I can't give up yet.
January 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
"He is working on several book manuscripts including one on Zhuangzi's political philosophy and one on Linji's Chan/Zen philosophy."

I did not know it but he'll yeh I'm looking forward to them!
January 12, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Movies are anxieties coated in sexual fantasies
January 12, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Hey babe, let's get real dizzy
January 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Religiously/mystically/contemplatively aligned friends: where do you go for communal experience. Do you have equivalents to church or Sangha?
December 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Distracted from the urm by the err what was I
December 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I think I might be finished with social media
December 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Every cunt on this site seems to be an expert in all the things, thank heavens
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Need job for house and food so I can read. Job takes up most of my time. Recovery from job takes up portion of my time. No time for read. What do?
December 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
May I just say that doing this close reading of the Philosophical Investigations was a dumb idea.
December 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Sorta gone off a lot ghr fiction I usually read (modernist, literary). What's some fun bullshit I should read? Or very good genre stuff?
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Keith Jarrett's Vienna Concert is too powerful
December 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Setting replies to anyone can interact in the hopes of conjuring up a ghost or two
December 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Please replace the handset and try again
December 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Oh great jesus grant us your mercy that we pass engulf whole cities in jelly
December 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I feel like I felt a feeling
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Gone all skittery brb
November 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
hey hi hiya, I'm forming a politics, & you can donate and be a member, & it'll be swell to have you on board—send monies now
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM