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Contimentalist
@contimentalist.bsky.social
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Theology and Religion PhD candidate @ Durham
Continental Philosophy | hermeneutics | phenomenology | political theology
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hope these good folks don’t let us down now.
NY Post headline: Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting largest exodus in history: poll
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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haha. yeah, no.
More than any other form of democracy, more than social democracy or popular democracy, a Christian democracy should be welcoming to the enemies of de-mocracy; it should turn them the other cheek, offer hospitality, grant freedom of expression and the right to vote to antidemocrats, something in conformity with a certain hyperbolic essence, an essence more autoimmune than ever, of democracy itself, if "itself" there ever is, if ever there is a democracy and thus a Christian democracy worthy of its name. —Jacques Derrida, Rogues
November 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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October 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Once the Epstein files are released…
Robert Jeffress with quote bubble.
October 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene by John Graham-Gilbert
October 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Promising for what I’m working on at the moment…
“Contemporary aspects of the problem of transcendent” by Maurice Blondel from 1937.
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Absolutely—and, relatedly, what Mbembe calls the nocturnal body of democracies.
Page 22 from Mbembe’s Necropolitics. “These critiques of democracy - articulated from the viewpoint of the social classes that originally endured democracy's brutality in the West itself— are relatively well known. What has not been emphasized enough, however, are its multiple genealogies and their entanglement. The history of modern democracies gets painted as though it reduces to a history internal to Western societies, as if, closed in on themselves and closed to the world, these societies confined themselves to the narrow limits of their immediate environment. Well, never has this been the case. The triumph of modern democracy in the West coincides with the period of its history during which this region of the world was engaged in a twofold movement of internal consolidation and expansion across the seas. The history of modern democracy is, at bottom, a history with two faces, and even two bodies — the solar body, on the one hand, and the nocturnal body, on the other. The major emblems of this nocturnal body are the colonial empire and the pro-slavery state — and more precisely the plantation and the penal colony. The penal colony, in particular, is a place where sentences of exclusion are served. These sentences aimed to remove and eliminate those subjected to them. At the origin of the penal colony, these sentences were given to political opponents, common law convicts subject to forced labor…”
June 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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This thing is amazing and has improved my life. that is all.
Picture of mint green strat-style electric guitar in case with red interior.
May 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Apropos of this from @taddelay.bsky.social in Future of Denial…
“…power. For example, white evangelical apocalypticism (literal future denial) resonates with the interests of capital (vague denial with a focus on short-term profit), and they form reactionary alliances in the Republican Party. As I documented in my book Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want?, around two-thirds of American white evangelicals, as well as somewhere between a fifth and a third of all Ameri-cans, say they don't believe there will be a twenty-second century.” From page 33 of Future of Denial by Tad DeLay
May 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Dudes posting their wins!
CNN Business webpage showing major indices down during market open. FT: “For many, the new administration offers a welcome opportunity to roll back some of the tighter rules enacted during President Joe Biden's administration and bend tax and regulatory policy in their favour. David Solomon, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, recently praised the incoming Trump administration for "running a growth-y playbook". "I am quite optimistic that this administration is going to run a very, very pro-growth agenda," Solomon said at a Reuters event.”
April 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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All my haters become waiters at the table of my major security breach.
BBC.com headline: White House slams reporter as 'anti-Trump hater' after he publishes new leaked Signal messages.
March 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Yes. Tamás describing his childhood in an interview…
Excerpt from an interview in NLR with GM Tamás.
March 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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It’s almost comical…
Headline from Reiters: Trump praises New York police raid on Columbia university protesters By Nathan Layne and Tim Reid May 2, 2024 7:26 AM EDT • Updated 10 months ago. Image caption: Police use a vehicle named "the bear" to enter Hamilton Hall from a public street, which was occupied by protesters, as other officers enter the campus of Columbia University, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs/File Photo
March 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Incredible levels of delusion—this definitely feels like the few weeks right before the lockdowns.
CNBC headline: Stocks claw back earlier losses, Nvidia leads Nasdaq into positive territory: Live updates Updated Tuesday, March 4, 2025 2:47 PM By: Alex Harring and Lisa Kailai Han Helping sentiment in afternoon trading may have been a Reuters report, citing people familiar, that President Donald Trump was prepared to announce a minerals deal with Ukraine during an address to Congress on Tuesday, though the agreement had not yet been signed. That would mark a significant turn after a confrontation between leaders of the two countries hurt stocks late last week. "While Tuesday's tariffs are a go, it remains very unclear on just how long these tariffs will remain," said Clark Geranen, chief market strategist at CalBay Investments. "We tend to believe these are more of a negotiation tactic and not the start of a long and drawn out reciprocal trade war. Still, in these situations, investors sell first and ask questions later."
March 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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“The contemporary trick of the rulers is 'culture'.” 💯💯💯
TAMÁS: Interview 25 What intellectual resources from the past would you consider of particular value today? It was not Marx, Engels and the Second International, but the founders of the Comintern-Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky, Bukharin—and a few others, like the Austro-Marxists around Otto Bauer and the Dutch-German Left-Communist opposition, who were the first to be sincerely internationalist and anti-racist. It was they who took up the cause of the oppressed peoples of the periphery and the semi-periphery, of the 'col-oured nations', who seriously opposed imperialism-still seen by Marx to have possessed a mission civilisatrice in India and similar benighted places at the back of beyond. Whatever happened to the idea of international solidarity, friendship between the peoples, self-determination, of being on the side of the poor, or the notion of the 'weakest link? There is a welcome tendency now among the young left in the region to develop forms of anti-national co-operation between various foci of resistance in East European countries, to oppose the pressure of global capitalist strategies still located mostly in the West. In the gatherings I attend in Zagreb and in Belgrade, the daughters and sons of Croatian and Serbian nationalists, who once drunk on each other's blood, are resuscitating the first condition of any anti-systemic opposition, called in good German Fundamentalopposition: disbelieve the classifying principles of the enemy. And they are doing it together. When rebels in the eighteenth century started disbelieving the inherent superiority of Norman blood or the ineffable blessedness of the bishops, they began to overcome the differentiations imposed from above that caused them to be obedient, the bowing to spiritual and moral superiority that is always necessary to preserve the ascendancy of the few over the many in any caste or class society. The contemporary trick of the rulers is 'culture'.
February 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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This is spot on 💯
In a major 2000 essay, 'On Post-Fascism', you analysed a confluence of forces that served to limit effective citizenship under liberal capitalism, despite the expansion of formally democratic processes. Has the experience of the past decade altered the picture? Not much. In the conditions of deregulated, neo-liberal global capitalism there are not only growing migrant populations but many other categories of people who are estranged, for one reason or another, from traditional nation-states which can no longer supply legal protection, on the one hand, or patriotism, on the other. If citizenship is not in the process of becoming a universal condition-expanding, as it did from 1789 onwards-then it will lose its sense. If it is available only to the officially registered, sedentary white populations of the Western nation-states, it will lead to authoritarian regimes based on racial and moral panic. If equality only obtains among the relatively privileged 'civic nations' in a dwindling number of still stable bourgeois states, then citizenship becomes a distinction instead of the universal condition promised by the French Revolution. If anti-immigrant xenophobia, anti-Islamic hate-mongering, anti-Roma hysteria and the like prevail, its symbolic and police order can only be sustained by tyranny seemingly propped up by 'the people', meaning this time the well-to-do whites and those who aspire to become such. Europe may become a larger Rhodesia any time now. How could we install a system of universal citizenship? The price to be paid is to dismantle the contemporary version of pseudo-liberal capital-ism; no multiculturalism can do justice to this problem. But the white majorities are increasingly desperate. Before 1989, I was afraid only of the secret police. But today I may face the wrath of my own people as I am seen to be on the side of the Roma, of the immigrants, of the gays and so on-so, unlike at any other time in history, equality is perceived to be inimical to the …
February 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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So much in these few sentences alone…
So, when looking at the liberal turn of such formerly socialist luminaries as Jürgen Habermas, becoming little more than pillars of the establish-ment, I decided to throw out my whole so-called oeuvre, break with my entire life so far, and go to school again. This has of course liberated my passionate repudiation of the state of affairs we wrought, my sympathy and compassion for people impoverished and made illiterate again by the market turn. I was obliged to recognize that our naive liberalism had delivered a nascent democracy into the hands of irresponsible and hate-filled right-wing politicos, and contributed to the re-establishment of a provincial, deferential and resentful social world, harking back to before 1945. The break was naturally quite painful, as it excluded me from the circle of people I was associated with for decades—the dissidents—so that my friends at the moment are mostly generations younger than I am; wonderful people, but without the shared memories so necessary for true friendships. At the same time, young Romanian leftists made it possible for me to have a consoling shadow existence in Transylvania, and to get rid finally of the feeling that poisoned my youth-the sense that ethnic conflict was irremediable. After a thirty-year absence, for the first time in my life when I give talks and sometimes write for journals in Romanian, I am made to feel welcome in my own land: a source of great delight and maybe undeserved justification.
February 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Renowned philosopher is unaware that metaphors are distinguished by the fact that they do not employ comparative prepositions.
“…but I do think there is a univocity of love. And in the Bible it's very striking that when sexual terms are employed, the usage is not metaphorical. God says to his people, 'You were a prostitute,' not, 'You were like a prostitute, and the Wisdom of God says, 'I shall seduce you, not, 'I shall act in a way that resembles a seduction' So I think that you can have a complete experience of love without first experiencing God.”
February 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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This whole album is 💯
Apple Music album cover for Still In Love featuring the members of Ten Fé in black and white photo.
February 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Man, this would be a lot funnier if we weren’t going to have to endure a disproportionate share of the consequences.
The economists said the tariffs took them by surprise. "While awaiting clarity on actual policies, it is important to emphasize that this weekend's announcements point toward a materially different policy mix than is built into our 2025-2026 outlook," they said.
February 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Court drawing of Rudy Giuliani motioning aggressively during court proceedings. Cat sitting at a dinner table behind a salad with a seemingly confused expression.
November 27, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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You will be upset once you get it.
A carry on luggage with the name Jean-Luc written across the center.
November 22, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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*When I wake up in the morning, love. And the sunlight hurts my eyes. And something without warning, love…”
“Prometheus Bound, an oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish Baroque artist from Antwerp. In Rubens's interpretation, the enormous eagle's beak rips open Prometheus's torso, exposing bloody entrails.The eagle's talons gouge into Prometheus's right eye, while his left eye is focused on the predator, indicating that he is aware of his torture. Agony is conveyed in his clenched fists, writhing legs, and tousled hair. The liver was chosen as the source for torture, as Greeks regarded the liver as intelligence, soul, and the seat of life.” From Wikipedia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Bound_(Rubens)
November 18, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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I refuse to join Bluesky - I don't want to become part of the Ecco chamber.
A screenshot of gameplay from Ecco The Dolphin on Sega Genesis.
November 17, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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biblically accurate harrowing of hell
Pairing titled “Anastasis,” a 14th century fresco from the Church of the Holy Savior in Khora, Istanbul depicting Christ liberating the Saints from Hell on Holy Saturday. Overlay of Bluesky logo on the figure of Christ and X logo overlaying the Saints.
November 14, 2024 at 6:48 PM