Namelessness
Facelessness
The One

Of teaching is often thought the more it's broken down into discrete, familiar steps, the greater student success. But I think a sense of wonder, an encounter with overwhelming otherness is necessary. Learning needs to cast a line of sight, open a horizon, trace a serpentine path.

Thinking about order, knowledge, experience, and technology as “arrangement” with students today. What better way to start than with disorder!

Explored this thesis further today in class

"Marxism, for Jameson, never provided some orthodox solution or ready-to-hand explanation for understanding our world but provided interpretive problems that always needed to be reinvented and reimagined."

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

Seems like the internet used to be a place of discovery, both of setting out to find for yourself and the possibility of stumbling into something unexpected. Now everything is served for you. AI and social media alike, content is presented for you. No sense of exploration. No fate, but ready-made.

Will be presenting at LACK 2025. Let me know if you will be there!

Great reading from today's history of science seminar:
"The Ghost Factories: Histories of Automata and Artificial Life"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Bio post? Im a phd student in literary studies working on 20th century historiographies of rationalism, semiotics, and literary theory. Interested in the history of abstraction, formalism, structure, materialism, and vitalism. I also wrote my masters thesis on hegel’s logic and the gothic.

Where the historians of science? the semiotics people? the sociologists of knowledge?

Where are the philosophy and crit theory people?

Sometimes I write stuff :)
emptysubject.substack.com/p/structure-...