i likely never will (not sure I will even teach again at all at this point) but i've always thought it would be fun to teach an american studies or a cinema class focused on cars
February 13, 2026 at 1:29 AM
i likely never will (not sure I will even teach again at all at this point) but i've always thought it would be fun to teach an american studies or a cinema class focused on cars
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We should ask how higher education embraced using their limited resources to launch centers for the purpose of attacking their own colleagues and students.
February 12, 2026 at 10:54 PM
We should ask how higher education embraced using their limited resources to launch centers for the purpose of attacking their own colleagues and students.
it's a simplification but i still like to think that the reading of a novel is a quite developed and complex relationship between two people. if one of them is AI, that's a relationship of some kind. but it doesn't seem especially appealing even if your aim is just to find something to beat off to
February 8, 2026 at 9:01 PM
it's a simplification but i still like to think that the reading of a novel is a quite developed and complex relationship between two people. if one of them is AI, that's a relationship of some kind. but it doesn't seem especially appealing even if your aim is just to find something to beat off to
'gender is fake': cis take which passes itself off as trans and queer somehow
February 7, 2026 at 1:07 PM
'gender is fake': cis take which passes itself off as trans and queer somehow
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it's really funny to me that Anne Lawrence lists Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil in the "Further Reading" section about autogynephilia
February 5, 2026 at 1:38 AM
it's really funny to me that Anne Lawrence lists Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil in the "Further Reading" section about autogynephilia
One of my fav things about fred’s papers were the decontextualized greimas squares
February 4, 2026 at 1:31 AM
One of my fav things about fred’s papers were the decontextualized greimas squares
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It will take us a while to relearn how to think about photos the way we do words or drawn images -- an expression of opinion rather a document of reality, except, ideally, when credentialed and moderated by some form of intellectual review. but in many ways they were always that
February 2, 2026 at 4:26 PM
It will take us a while to relearn how to think about photos the way we do words or drawn images -- an expression of opinion rather a document of reality, except, ideally, when credentialed and moderated by some form of intellectual review. but in many ways they were always that
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feels bad to do goofy intellectual self indulgence at the end of the world but ya gotta do it while it lasts
January 31, 2026 at 10:39 PM
feels bad to do goofy intellectual self indulgence at the end of the world but ya gotta do it while it lasts
Sometimes I am annoyed by the resurgence of interpretive methods which seem to me very vulgar and simple—making bad old homologies between the aesthetic and the economic, etc. but then sometimes there are movies made which are quite simply bribes, alibis to funnel money to the wealthy and powerful
January 31, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Sometimes I am annoyed by the resurgence of interpretive methods which seem to me very vulgar and simple—making bad old homologies between the aesthetic and the economic, etc. but then sometimes there are movies made which are quite simply bribes, alibis to funnel money to the wealthy and powerful
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As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
![That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women.
Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreidpuxbx764xh7vobavcnvs3v2lo5fnfi6dukfrmk3ygxmseznkyxi@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM
As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
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While in California, Ian Watt asks Theodor Adorno how his day went
January 31, 2026 at 4:10 PM
While in California, Ian Watt asks Theodor Adorno how his day went
“[T]he problem was not so much that feminist analysis was challenged and hence destabilized by internal critique but rather that it remained the same for too long, so that it stopped being exciting and came to feel boring and repetitive instead”
January 31, 2026 at 2:27 PM
“[T]he problem was not so much that feminist analysis was challenged and hence destabilized by internal critique but rather that it remained the same for too long, so that it stopped being exciting and came to feel boring and repetitive instead”
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STEP 1
Work hard to achieve my goals.
STEP 0
Figure out what to do to achieve my goals.
STEP -1
Figure out what my goals should be.
STEP -2
Establish sound methodology to interpret and resolve deontic questions.
STEP -8
How is it that some things are, while others fail to be?
Work hard to achieve my goals.
STEP 0
Figure out what to do to achieve my goals.
STEP -1
Figure out what my goals should be.
STEP -2
Establish sound methodology to interpret and resolve deontic questions.
STEP -8
How is it that some things are, while others fail to be?
January 30, 2026 at 6:05 AM
STEP 1
Work hard to achieve my goals.
STEP 0
Figure out what to do to achieve my goals.
STEP -1
Figure out what my goals should be.
STEP -2
Establish sound methodology to interpret and resolve deontic questions.
STEP -8
How is it that some things are, while others fail to be?
Work hard to achieve my goals.
STEP 0
Figure out what to do to achieve my goals.
STEP -1
Figure out what my goals should be.
STEP -2
Establish sound methodology to interpret and resolve deontic questions.
STEP -8
How is it that some things are, while others fail to be?
Dissertation terminable and interminable
January 30, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Dissertation terminable and interminable
From Günther Anders’s Kafka book
January 30, 2026 at 12:27 PM
From Günther Anders’s Kafka book
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Horkheimer to PL Landsberg, 12/23/1939: “You must be rather optimistic to believe you see a light at the end of the tunnel. No matter how hard I strain these eyes of mine, however, I cannot … I grant you only this: that it is a tunnel, and so humanity can find its way out.”
January 27, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Horkheimer to PL Landsberg, 12/23/1939: “You must be rather optimistic to believe you see a light at the end of the tunnel. No matter how hard I strain these eyes of mine, however, I cannot … I grant you only this: that it is a tunnel, and so humanity can find its way out.”
We should make TV programs like this again
Donna Haraway Reads The National Geographic on Primates (part 1)
YouTube video by maleperduys
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 1:56 PM
We should make TV programs like this again
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DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September: