Auden as phenomenologist, on watching a person in flow state:

‘How beautiful it is,
that eye-on-the-object look.’

I’m sorry bro but if you’re going to get ChatGPT to write your dating app prompts you gotta at least delete the quote marks and the em dash. What are we doing here

John Berger, on the eve of Iraq, on the strategies of US hegemony: bombardment and starvation in the name of total virtuality. ‘It sounds stupid. Tyrannies are stupid. This one is destroying at every level the life of the planet on which it operates.’

This probably the thing I’ve written to date that I’m most proud of. It is also likely to be the only paper you see this year whose first paragraph features all of these words: ‘tradcath’, ‘based’, ‘cringe’, ‘Trotsky’, ’S&M’, and ‘pope’. Perhaps one or both of these facts will incite you to read it.

Me, young Freud and cowboy-hatted William James in a 17th century palazzo: the dream. Had a great time last week at the ‘Towards a Heterodox Tradition in Analytic Philosophy’ conference in Milan, talking about psychoanalysis and pragmatism.

Edinburgh: the Revolutionary Logic Group commences on Wednesday. Be there or be square

So excited to be presenting next week at ‘The Philosophy and Politics of Despair’ conference, UC Dublin. I’ll be talking about the interwar ‘existential mood’ - in particular, how popular philosophy became preoccupied with the idea of universal heat death. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Late to the party and nobody asked anyway but here’s my AOTY chart for 2024 x

even brat girl summer was no match for depressive avant Canadian boy winter