Is there a reason Cambridge publishes so much material on Schopenhauer? They've released the authoritative translations in English for pretty much everything except the manuscripts, a companion, now another companion, the Cartwright biography, Jacquette's book. Is an editor just really into it?

Dog they passed a law banning gender affirming care. The options are sue to try to stop it or don’t.

the third critique guy to aristotelian pipeline

when dostoevsky said "beauty will save the world" he was talking about hiring more aesthetics TT positions

schopenhauer 🤝 marx
really not liking what was going on in gotha

duolingo has gotten so good at hijacking your brain with the gameification stuff but it's making me better at german so it's impossible to say if that's good or bad

Somehow it feels like aesthetics and philart are coming back in a big way but no one is hiring for it. I've seen a handful of people talk about aesthetics saving their love for philosophy mid-career, but it seems like it's still gloom and doom for those who are very early career.

The thing about real-ID social media is there is crushing pressure to linked-inify yourself. And what makes anonymous social media is that you can take risks with jokes and be playful and flippant and even vulnerable in a way that generates (something) intimacy with the people in the same corner.

you all wish you lived in such a charmingly maritime city

The cool thing about Sinclair's pamphlet "Feminism" is that it really flips the expectations of a 21st century reader. Her target is a kind of scientific misogyny and one of the main tools in her arsenal for defending feminism is Schopenhauerian metaphysics.

the main point of inspiration i take from schopenhauer is trying to make all of my little guys say the same thing

I had a kind of nightmare where I was reading symbolist poetry and it wasn't as good as I remembered. It was just not hitting. What was really nightmarish about it was that I came to have the sense that the poems were objectively kind of lame.

The good news about living in the worst all possible worlds is that it can't get any worse.

i gotta like triple check that i'm not posting anything objectionable before I follow serious professional people. and assure myself that the Posting Drive won't kick in

Is there someone who commands the same violent, sovereign-like authority over fancy women's wear that Derek Dieworkwear commands over men's wear?

having a "rosebud" moment where I say "Hell is real" as I'm dying and everyone thinks I'm having a religious epiphany but I'm just remembering the signs on I-71

i'm kind of wondering if my point is just "this other guy's aesthetics are right and schopenhauer thinks so too" :/

There's this kind of dialectic with Schopenhauer scholars where you can be like "Well, he does think that rationality is feminine, that intellect is feminine and so on" and then someone replies "But will is the dominant part and masculine." But he also thinks the dominance of the will is bad!

this feels insulting if i'm being honest