Jeremy D Johnson
@jdj.bsky.social
Writer. Seeing Through the World (2019), Fragments of an Integral Future: Essays on Time, Ecology and a New World View (2025). Editor-in-chief @ Mutations Journal. PhD student in Philosophy.
http://www.mutations.blog
http://www.mutations.blog
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Cancelled grants and frozen funds is an opportunity for organizing groups of people that might not have previously been inclined to join labor struggles within higher education
January 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Cancelled grants and frozen funds is an opportunity for organizing groups of people that might not have previously been inclined to join labor struggles within higher education
Fisher, describing post-capitalist time, comes close to describing Gebserian time-freedom: "This other [use] of time... this open-ended, unpressured sense of time... the specter of that time is very haunting."
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all of this is temporary: Mark Fisher
YouTube video by cci collective
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January 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Fisher, describing post-capitalist time, comes close to describing Gebserian time-freedom: "This other [use] of time... this open-ended, unpressured sense of time... the specter of that time is very haunting."
youtu.be/deZgzw0YHQI?...
youtu.be/deZgzw0YHQI?...
If our looking "ripens" things, as Rilke says, and if attention is prayer, as Weil says, then creativity may be its highest form--creative presence as communion and devotion to the living world.
January 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If our looking "ripens" things, as Rilke says, and if attention is prayer, as Weil says, then creativity may be its highest form--creative presence as communion and devotion to the living world.
If our looking "ripens" things, as Rilke says, and if attention is prayer, as Weil says, then creativity may be its highest form--creative presence as communion and devotion to the living world.
January 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If our looking "ripens" things, as Rilke says, and if attention is prayer, as Weil says, then creativity may be its highest form--creative presence as communion and devotion to the living world.
January 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New writing—letters and philosophical fragments on ecology and planetary thought—coming soon.
Here’s a snippet.
Here’s a snippet.
January 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
New writing—letters and philosophical fragments on ecology and planetary thought—coming soon.
Here’s a snippet.
Here’s a snippet.
As if I don't already have *too* many projects on my plate -- one of the goals I have for later this year (after I publish Fragments) is digging up my old science fiction novel idea. Fiction writing was an early passion of mine, and never really went away. Feels meaningful.
January 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
As if I don't already have *too* many projects on my plate -- one of the goals I have for later this year (after I publish Fragments) is digging up my old science fiction novel idea. Fiction writing was an early passion of mine, and never really went away. Feels meaningful.
My partner and I are (re)watching LOST. Say what you want about the end of the show, but John Locke in season 1 is our favorite. He reads like a fictional Bill Plotkin, and many of the events on the island make sense--at least from an animist point of view.
January 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
My partner and I are (re)watching LOST. Say what you want about the end of the show, but John Locke in season 1 is our favorite. He reads like a fictional Bill Plotkin, and many of the events on the island make sense--at least from an animist point of view.
One of the major themes of my forthcoming book is that, when it comes to the history of consciousness (which, as the German Romantics understood, was also the 'poetic' history of philosophy), we need better narratives. Non-linear. Dynamic and living.
January 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
One of the major themes of my forthcoming book is that, when it comes to the history of consciousness (which, as the German Romantics understood, was also the 'poetic' history of philosophy), we need better narratives. Non-linear. Dynamic and living.
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Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.
January 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.
More than ever it is vital to recall this singular idea: tomorrow already lives in us.
January 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
More than ever it is vital to recall this singular idea: tomorrow already lives in us.
If we are already in relation with latent futures, it behooves us all to aspire towards greater degrees of agency in the face of technocratic dehumanization, presence in the face of rampant clock-time, and freedom in the face of spiritual estrangement.
January 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
If we are already in relation with latent futures, it behooves us all to aspire towards greater degrees of agency in the face of technocratic dehumanization, presence in the face of rampant clock-time, and freedom in the face of spiritual estrangement.
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Breaking News: David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker, has died at 78. He was known for his surreal style in films like “Eraserhead” and “Mulholland Drive,” as well as the TV series “Twin Peaks.” nyti.ms/3WphQj8
January 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Breaking News: David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker, has died at 78. He was known for his surreal style in films like “Eraserhead” and “Mulholland Drive,” as well as the TV series “Twin Peaks.” nyti.ms/3WphQj8
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These are field-shaping, paradigm-shifting volumes. Translations in one, commentary in the other--everything we need to correct the record and do right by these brilliant and neglected women philosophers. Genuinely exciting, deeply inspiring! @dalianassar.bsky.social #philsky #womeninphilosophy
December 17, 2024 at 2:24 PM
These are field-shaping, paradigm-shifting volumes. Translations in one, commentary in the other--everything we need to correct the record and do right by these brilliant and neglected women philosophers. Genuinely exciting, deeply inspiring! @dalianassar.bsky.social #philsky #womeninphilosophy
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In 2025 our love for this world has to become more ferocious.
We cannot bottle up our righteous fury at forces who are knowing setting the world on fire and actually *want* it to burn because they think they will be safe.
Whether in their palaces in the sky or their palaces down here on earth.
We cannot bottle up our righteous fury at forces who are knowing setting the world on fire and actually *want* it to burn because they think they will be safe.
Whether in their palaces in the sky or their palaces down here on earth.
December 31, 2024 at 11:07 PM
In 2025 our love for this world has to become more ferocious.
We cannot bottle up our righteous fury at forces who are knowing setting the world on fire and actually *want* it to burn because they think they will be safe.
Whether in their palaces in the sky or their palaces down here on earth.
We cannot bottle up our righteous fury at forces who are knowing setting the world on fire and actually *want* it to burn because they think they will be safe.
Whether in their palaces in the sky or their palaces down here on earth.
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My new book A Natural History of Empty Lots is released today. I hope you like it—it distills 20 years of exploring the edgelands, working on rewilding projects, and trying to understand what such places teach us about our lives, history and future: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...
September 17, 2024 at 11:09 AM
My new book A Natural History of Empty Lots is released today. I hope you like it—it distills 20 years of exploring the edgelands, working on rewilding projects, and trying to understand what such places teach us about our lives, history and future: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...
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Au contraire. LLMs show why Kant was right and Hume was wrong: you don't get causal understanding just from predicting correlations (and they don't even strictly speaking predict anything; we use them to do that). www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
December 28, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Au contraire. LLMs show why Kant was right and Hume was wrong: you don't get causal understanding just from predicting correlations (and they don't even strictly speaking predict anything; we use them to do that). www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
I've been deeply appreciating The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It is just as much a book on writing as it is on *why* one should write, and how good writing--and by extension storytelling--haunts us, carries us over into the sublime, and changes our world.
December 28, 2024 at 4:17 AM
I've been deeply appreciating The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It is just as much a book on writing as it is on *why* one should write, and how good writing--and by extension storytelling--haunts us, carries us over into the sublime, and changes our world.
Stumbled across this book and hope to eventually check it out. It explores temporality under the conditions of capitalism--something I write about towards the end of my new book on Gebser and integral time.
December 28, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Stumbled across this book and hope to eventually check it out. It explores temporality under the conditions of capitalism--something I write about towards the end of my new book on Gebser and integral time.
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People were calling the shooter a folk hero as soon as they found out who the victim was, as nothing was known about the shooter.
Weaponizing the reality that white killers are treated differently by the media this way is a pathetic attempt to distract from the conversation around health insurance
Weaponizing the reality that white killers are treated differently by the media this way is a pathetic attempt to distract from the conversation around health insurance
December 21, 2024 at 10:50 PM
People were calling the shooter a folk hero as soon as they found out who the victim was, as nothing was known about the shooter.
Weaponizing the reality that white killers are treated differently by the media this way is a pathetic attempt to distract from the conversation around health insurance
Weaponizing the reality that white killers are treated differently by the media this way is a pathetic attempt to distract from the conversation around health insurance
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Here is the final product of my essay on Schelling's 1809 Freedom Essay. The Essay itself, is meant to stand as both a guide or introduction to the main themes that are dazzling and difficult. I hope you all enjoy it! Thanks again to @epochemagazine.org
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Freedom, God, and Ground: An Introduction to Schelling’s 1809 Freedom Essay
Introduction I would like to take the time in the very short space that I have to introduce the main themes of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s (1775-1854) last published work, the riveting and di...
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December 19, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Here is the final product of my essay on Schelling's 1809 Freedom Essay. The Essay itself, is meant to stand as both a guide or introduction to the main themes that are dazzling and difficult. I hope you all enjoy it! Thanks again to @epochemagazine.org
epochemagazine.org/77/freedom-g...
epochemagazine.org/77/freedom-g...
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Pure durée vs spatialised time
December 14, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Pure durée vs spatialised time
To be clear, the only real and sustainable fear and respect the ruling class *should* have, the only path that can lead towards very real social change and economic redistribution, comes from organized labor.
December 14, 2024 at 5:53 PM
To be clear, the only real and sustainable fear and respect the ruling class *should* have, the only path that can lead towards very real social change and economic redistribution, comes from organized labor.
"To surrender the opposite is to gain together-ness: genuine inter-human participation… Subject and object lose their previous dualistic and antagonistic character of opposition, and the antagonism engendered by preserving a misunderstood ego-valuation" [1/2]
December 14, 2024 at 2:25 AM
"To surrender the opposite is to gain together-ness: genuine inter-human participation… Subject and object lose their previous dualistic and antagonistic character of opposition, and the antagonism engendered by preserving a misunderstood ego-valuation" [1/2]
"Here we would only note once again that the phenomenon of "lack of time" is characteristic of our material, spatially accentuated world: How is anyone to have time if he tears it apart?" - Jean Gebser
December 13, 2024 at 5:11 PM
"Here we would only note once again that the phenomenon of "lack of time" is characteristic of our material, spatially accentuated world: How is anyone to have time if he tears it apart?" - Jean Gebser