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@equalparallel.bsky.social
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Writing art theory, reading philosophy
at https://equalparallel.com/
Made art at https://vimeo.com/user1037543
Persisted as https://twitter.com/EqualParallel
And one foot always @Equalparallel@zirk.us
Writing art theory, reading philosophy
at https://equalparallel.com/
Made art at https://vimeo.com/user1037543
Persisted as https://twitter.com/EqualParallel
And one foot always @Equalparallel@zirk.us
Seen so many Jia Zhangke scenes. This one in Xi'An.
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Seen so many Jia Zhangke scenes. This one in Xi'An.
It doesn't take long in the country outside the mall districts, just past the wrong turn in a big underpass, to realize that Jia Pingwa and Jia Zhankge are neorealists, while China of Tooze is a fascinating mirage, a spirit of excel sheets, under whose shadow lives pass quietly.
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It doesn't take long in the country outside the mall districts, just past the wrong turn in a big underpass, to realize that Jia Pingwa and Jia Zhankge are neorealists, while China of Tooze is a fascinating mirage, a spirit of excel sheets, under whose shadow lives pass quietly.
Sichuan food is fine, but it turns out Yunnan cuisine is the best. Good enough to be represented in other provinces even. From the Yunnan Kitchen restaurant in Chongqing: fried tofu puffs with signature Danshan style dry dip, steamed omelet with mushrooms and crazy potato salad.
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Sichuan food is fine, but it turns out Yunnan cuisine is the best. Good enough to be represented in other provinces even. From the Yunnan Kitchen restaurant in Chongqing: fried tofu puffs with signature Danshan style dry dip, steamed omelet with mushrooms and crazy potato salad.
Found on Reddit. Could have been about Kant not just Göttingen.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Found on Reddit. Could have been about Kant not just Göttingen.
Haven't started reading it properly but shocked once again by incredible brevity of Brassier's writing in the introduction.
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Haven't started reading it properly but shocked once again by incredible brevity of Brassier's writing in the introduction.
And another one on Problem-Dialectic
August 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
And another one on Problem-Dialectic
Nice diagram by Rescher from his book on Philosophical Dialectic
August 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Nice diagram by Rescher from his book on Philosophical Dialectic
I see you, and I raise you
August 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I see you, and I raise you
Wrote 4k words on faith in a disenchanted world. On what faith means to me in the impossibility of theism. Where I'd go when there is nowhere left to turn. Don't know if this is philosophy exactly. Just thinking out loud about things I've never really thought about. equalparallel.com/void-cloud-l...
June 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Wrote 4k words on faith in a disenchanted world. On what faith means to me in the impossibility of theism. Where I'd go when there is nowhere left to turn. Don't know if this is philosophy exactly. Just thinking out loud about things I've never really thought about. equalparallel.com/void-cloud-l...
This is quite crucial: the prompt in the shell signified performance of transformation of one model into another, of encoding the anthropic into machine, but increasingly means ideation within machinic semiotic boundaries. Thinking within the limits of CLI syntax and semantics.
June 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is quite crucial: the prompt in the shell signified performance of transformation of one model into another, of encoding the anthropic into machine, but increasingly means ideation within machinic semiotic boundaries. Thinking within the limits of CLI syntax and semantics.
Interesting, if perhaps excessively optimistic text. Can't quite tecall much writing in the area of philosophy of CLI! Maybe just adjacent in Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line".
echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/prom...
echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/prom...
June 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Interesting, if perhaps excessively optimistic text. Can't quite tecall much writing in the area of philosophy of CLI! Maybe just adjacent in Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line".
echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/prom...
echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/prom...
Gellner kind of goes to town on the now classic libidinal economy and belonging approach to this topic, but following the tradition of being a good liberal it's mostly cherry picking. I'm curious if someone already explored the violent affect side of things.
June 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Gellner kind of goes to town on the now classic libidinal economy and belonging approach to this topic, but following the tradition of being a good liberal it's mostly cherry picking. I'm curious if someone already explored the violent affect side of things.
Did anyone write about fascism in this key more extensively? On fascism as "the cult of violent affect"? Except Theweleit that is and various literature exploring sadism, transgression and politics aesthetically. Quote from Gellner:
June 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Did anyone write about fascism in this key more extensively? On fascism as "the cult of violent affect"? Except Theweleit that is and various literature exploring sadism, transgression and politics aesthetically. Quote from Gellner:
Turns out there's a device like that already! It's called Time Timer Watch and its designed for ADHD. Main feature being a visually representative timer with a stark red clock face. And the timer can be set to repeat with a fairly noticeable vibration alarm.
June 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Turns out there's a device like that already! It's called Time Timer Watch and its designed for ADHD. Main feature being a visually representative timer with a stark red clock face. And the timer can be set to repeat with a fairly noticeable vibration alarm.
Actually pretty timely to show it now cause created a subculture, an aesthetic of masculinity and in today's crisis of it, it's a good reminder of how performative the whole thing is.
May 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Actually pretty timely to show it now cause created a subculture, an aesthetic of masculinity and in today's crisis of it, it's a good reminder of how performative the whole thing is.
Sad to see further confirmation of the thesis "where there's one sign of brainrot, there surely is another".
April 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Sad to see further confirmation of the thesis "where there's one sign of brainrot, there surely is another".
Good time to repost this intro from Shahram Khosravi's book with Theo Angelopoulos poem interpreting Homer's Odyssey
April 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Good time to repost this intro from Shahram Khosravi's book with Theo Angelopoulos poem interpreting Homer's Odyssey
Most importantly G sees this as a kind of liberal vision of atomistic facts (alienated from referenced) and recognises it to be much less socially cohesive, a world in which social values are unmoored:
March 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Most importantly G sees this as a kind of liberal vision of atomistic facts (alienated from referenced) and recognises it to be much less socially cohesive, a world in which social values are unmoored:
Today I've learned that Ernest Gellner was something of a Sellarsian without knowing it: manifest and scientific images to him are multi strand and single strand social organisations, the latter a unified view of atomistic facts with no room for privileged or sacred:
March 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Today I've learned that Ernest Gellner was something of a Sellarsian without knowing it: manifest and scientific images to him are multi strand and single strand social organisations, the latter a unified view of atomistic facts with no room for privileged or sacred:
Imho the extent of suffering from the overall writing style per insightful sentence in Ernest Gellner's work is severely underrated. Each brilliant summary or idea is hidden in this absolutely obscene Oxbridge prose spiced with military and navy metaphors. On Hayek and Veblen:
March 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Imho the extent of suffering from the overall writing style per insightful sentence in Ernest Gellner's work is severely underrated. Each brilliant summary or idea is hidden in this absolutely obscene Oxbridge prose spiced with military and navy metaphors. On Hayek and Veblen: