Eiffel
@eiffelmaharan.bsky.social
North-American raised and educated 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
Germany-based 🇪🇺🇩🇪
Mathematics B.A. 🎓
Failed author and philosopher
Radical Urbanist
Germany-based 🇪🇺🇩🇪
Mathematics B.A. 🎓
Failed author and philosopher
Radical Urbanist
Interesting that the top cities in the per capita metric also roughly vibe with my understanding of the most urbanist cities in North America:
January 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Interesting that the top cities in the per capita metric also roughly vibe with my understanding of the most urbanist cities in North America:
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I see a few folks saying "but what about deaths per mile driven!", as though that's a better metric. (Ask yourself: If crash deaths are constant but driving doubles, are people now safer?)
But even based on deaths/VMT the US is awful at road safety.
www.ft.com/content/a75a...
But even based on deaths/VMT the US is awful at road safety.
www.ft.com/content/a75a...
December 31, 2024 at 3:38 PM
I see a few folks saying "but what about deaths per mile driven!", as though that's a better metric. (Ask yourself: If crash deaths are constant but driving doubles, are people now safer?)
But even based on deaths/VMT the US is awful at road safety.
www.ft.com/content/a75a...
But even based on deaths/VMT the US is awful at road safety.
www.ft.com/content/a75a...
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Jetzt ist es ganz klar: Wenn Sie wollen, dass Deutschland von internationalen Oligarchen regiert wird, dann wählen Sie AfD
December 28, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Jetzt ist es ganz klar: Wenn Sie wollen, dass Deutschland von internationalen Oligarchen regiert wird, dann wählen Sie AfD
A friend of mine showed me this section from Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and it’s uncanny how much of 20th century philosophy seems to use Eros either as a philosophical subject, object or just examples.
December 29, 2024 at 10:07 PM
A friend of mine showed me this section from Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and it’s uncanny how much of 20th century philosophy seems to use Eros either as a philosophical subject, object or just examples.
Definitely “All Happy Families” by Hervé Le Tellier! He’s not an obscure author but this book of his has far less gotten far less Limelight than The Anomaly—perhaps not unjustly. But All Happy Families just does such a good job of showing how happiness and content are often partially a choice :)
Hey, pals:
What’s the book (fiction or non-) that you think of as your secret? Ie, nobody knows how astounding it is but you? Sure sign: you’ve bought multiple copies to give away. Two of mine: “The Mezzanine” by @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social and “Golden Gate” by Vikram Seth. What’s yours?
What’s the book (fiction or non-) that you think of as your secret? Ie, nobody knows how astounding it is but you? Sure sign: you’ve bought multiple copies to give away. Two of mine: “The Mezzanine” by @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social and “Golden Gate” by Vikram Seth. What’s yours?
December 29, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Definitely “All Happy Families” by Hervé Le Tellier! He’s not an obscure author but this book of his has far less gotten far less Limelight than The Anomaly—perhaps not unjustly. But All Happy Families just does such a good job of showing how happiness and content are often partially a choice :)
I’m interested in this line of Critical Theory that focuses on the effects of modernity and in particular how this affects the capacity for love. I’ve read both Byung-Chul Han’s The Agony of Eros and Eva Illouz’ Why Love Hurts. Are there other major contemporary thinkers on this that I’ve missed?
December 29, 2024 at 7:47 PM
I’m interested in this line of Critical Theory that focuses on the effects of modernity and in particular how this affects the capacity for love. I’ve read both Byung-Chul Han’s The Agony of Eros and Eva Illouz’ Why Love Hurts. Are there other major contemporary thinkers on this that I’ve missed?