William Gillis 🏴
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Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”
https://humaniterations.net/
Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”
https://humaniterations.net/
Is continental philosophy infested with hackish obscurantism? Sure, pretty much everyone agrees. I briefly touch upon this in my book.
But it's a trap to critique because 1) some tortured prose contains content, and 2) you become seen as a hectoring hall monitor banning metaphor and play.
But it's a trap to critique because 1) some tortured prose contains content, and 2) you become seen as a hectoring hall monitor banning metaphor and play.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Is continental philosophy infested with hackish obscurantism? Sure, pretty much everyone agrees. I briefly touch upon this in my book.
But it's a trap to critique because 1) some tortured prose contains content, and 2) you become seen as a hectoring hall monitor banning metaphor and play.
But it's a trap to critique because 1) some tortured prose contains content, and 2) you become seen as a hectoring hall monitor banning metaphor and play.
Timur Kacharava was stabbed to death twenty years ago today by nazis, just after sharing food at a Food Not Bombs.
I remember being intensely affected by this murder, more so than Carlo or Spit and Dan's, in part I think because I'm the same age as Timur. He missed out on the last 20 years.
I remember being intensely affected by this murder, more so than Carlo or Spit and Dan's, in part I think because I'm the same age as Timur. He missed out on the last 20 years.
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Timur Kacharava was stabbed to death twenty years ago today by nazis, just after sharing food at a Food Not Bombs.
I remember being intensely affected by this murder, more so than Carlo or Spit and Dan's, in part I think because I'm the same age as Timur. He missed out on the last 20 years.
I remember being intensely affected by this murder, more so than Carlo or Spit and Dan's, in part I think because I'm the same age as Timur. He missed out on the last 20 years.
I gotta be real, I viscerally hate sort of thing. Yes, sure, bigger numbers have some benefits, but I got so much ire with how normie apolitical hipsters latched onto Obama and Bernie as "cool" "moments" and, from that orientation, ended up spawning some of the worst political subcurrents ever.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I gotta be real, I viscerally hate sort of thing. Yes, sure, bigger numbers have some benefits, but I got so much ire with how normie apolitical hipsters latched onto Obama and Bernie as "cool" "moments" and, from that orientation, ended up spawning some of the worst political subcurrents ever.
Nationalism is the reification of nations -- fictitious and arbitrary abstractions above actually-existing people-- and putting aside the more general problems with "rights" based frameworks, "national rights" would inherently come at the cost of individuals.
November 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Nationalism is the reification of nations -- fictitious and arbitrary abstractions above actually-existing people-- and putting aside the more general problems with "rights" based frameworks, "national rights" would inherently come at the cost of individuals.
Some of my first memories are of my parents talking about how Reagan was the literal *antichrist*. He was so far-right, so unbelievably off the political spectrum and beyond the overton window, that it traumatized older leftists and radicalized a younger generation of punks, etc.
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some of my first memories are of my parents talking about how Reagan was the literal *antichrist*. He was so far-right, so unbelievably off the political spectrum and beyond the overton window, that it traumatized older leftists and radicalized a younger generation of punks, etc.
October 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
From my book: www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
October 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
From my book: www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
I will say that of all the downplaying or massaging that one would expect, this line irks me because Aronowitz had literally published a whole book titled SCIENCE AS POWER that took said position. And the function of the Sokal Hoax was to draw to the fore Aronowitz's caucusing with the pomo crowd.
October 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I will say that of all the downplaying or massaging that one would expect, this line irks me because Aronowitz had literally published a whole book titled SCIENCE AS POWER that took said position. And the function of the Sokal Hoax was to draw to the fore Aronowitz's caucusing with the pomo crowd.
My critique of poems is they don't cause enough crime.
October 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My critique of poems is they don't cause enough crime.
October 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
which ideas being exchanged?
which ideas did you implicitly consider beyond the pale? why won't you accept an exchange of ideas that involve critique of your framing?
which ideas did you implicitly consider beyond the pale? why won't you accept an exchange of ideas that involve critique of your framing?
October 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
which ideas being exchanged?
which ideas did you implicitly consider beyond the pale? why won't you accept an exchange of ideas that involve critique of your framing?
which ideas did you implicitly consider beyond the pale? why won't you accept an exchange of ideas that involve critique of your framing?
In my book I couldn't help by offhandedly start to list the commonalities Jordan Peterson has with the worst of the 80s postmodernists, and I had to cut it short, but my fucking god the fucking spiritual woo the man constantly engages in.
October 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In my book I couldn't help by offhandedly start to list the commonalities Jordan Peterson has with the worst of the 80s postmodernists, and I had to cut it short, but my fucking god the fucking spiritual woo the man constantly engages in.
Hey everyone! I'm doing a virtual book talk with the lovely folks of @firestorm.coop
You can register here:
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October 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hey everyone! I'm doing a virtual book talk with the lovely folks of @firestorm.coop
You can register here:
firestorm.coop/events/3479-...
You can register here:
firestorm.coop/events/3479-...
So, even though tens of millions of liberal normies rn are aggressively fantasizing about rivers of blood, they're not buying guns or reading insurgency manuals.
So our future basically entirely hangs on Joe Rogan followers being annoying about "constitutionality" to their wannabe-RWDS friends.
So our future basically entirely hangs on Joe Rogan followers being annoying about "constitutionality" to their wannabe-RWDS friends.
October 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
So, even though tens of millions of liberal normies rn are aggressively fantasizing about rivers of blood, they're not buying guns or reading insurgency manuals.
So our future basically entirely hangs on Joe Rogan followers being annoying about "constitutionality" to their wannabe-RWDS friends.
So our future basically entirely hangs on Joe Rogan followers being annoying about "constitutionality" to their wannabe-RWDS friends.
In the hopeful column goes Curtis Yarvin ranting about how he's making plans to flee the country because Miller hasn't moved hard enough to abolish the entire judiciary and so will fail.
With the caveat that this is Yarvin, who is notoriously wrong about everything.
With the caveat that this is Yarvin, who is notoriously wrong about everything.
October 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
In the hopeful column goes Curtis Yarvin ranting about how he's making plans to flee the country because Miller hasn't moved hard enough to abolish the entire judiciary and so will fail.
With the caveat that this is Yarvin, who is notoriously wrong about everything.
With the caveat that this is Yarvin, who is notoriously wrong about everything.
Someone on twitter posted the old Libertarian Party platform on immigration to emphasize how fucking batshit things have gotten. And yeah....
October 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Someone on twitter posted the old Libertarian Party platform on immigration to emphasize how fucking batshit things have gotten. And yeah....
This class of mockery is always so fucking strange to me under any examination.
WHY should everywhere have the exact same political spectrum? WHY do these people think their weirdo subculture of "centrist middle america" is natural, inevitable, or should be mandatory?
WHY should everywhere have the exact same political spectrum? WHY do these people think their weirdo subculture of "centrist middle america" is natural, inevitable, or should be mandatory?
October 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This class of mockery is always so fucking strange to me under any examination.
WHY should everywhere have the exact same political spectrum? WHY do these people think their weirdo subculture of "centrist middle america" is natural, inevitable, or should be mandatory?
WHY should everywhere have the exact same political spectrum? WHY do these people think their weirdo subculture of "centrist middle america" is natural, inevitable, or should be mandatory?
Consider the drop of ink in a glass of water: it's not so much that the ink is "dissipating", it's that the two part system of the water and the ink is growing intermingled.
We can arbitrarily subdivide the universe, but it knits back together. All border walls fall.
We can arbitrarily subdivide the universe, but it knits back together. All border walls fall.
October 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Consider the drop of ink in a glass of water: it's not so much that the ink is "dissipating", it's that the two part system of the water and the ink is growing intermingled.
We can arbitrarily subdivide the universe, but it knits back together. All border walls fall.
We can arbitrarily subdivide the universe, but it knits back together. All border walls fall.
So like consider a goo of certain asymmetric molecules, each with a complex tangly bit and a simple pointed bit. Jumble them about randomly for a bit and what will *emerge* is something like a dandelion seed bulb, clusters of the molecules with all the fluffy bits pointing out.
October 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So like consider a goo of certain asymmetric molecules, each with a complex tangly bit and a simple pointed bit. Jumble them about randomly for a bit and what will *emerge* is something like a dandelion seed bulb, clusters of the molecules with all the fluffy bits pointing out.
I moved heaven and earth to get my book out to crush Krauss' awful book.
But, as I mentioned in my Twitter thread where I photographed every page of the book so folks wouldn't have to give him money, Krauss' book is just whines about DEI, trans, and Israel.
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
But, as I mentioned in my Twitter thread where I photographed every page of the book so folks wouldn't have to give him money, Krauss' book is just whines about DEI, trans, and Israel.
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I moved heaven and earth to get my book out to crush Krauss' awful book.
But, as I mentioned in my Twitter thread where I photographed every page of the book so folks wouldn't have to give him money, Krauss' book is just whines about DEI, trans, and Israel.
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
But, as I mentioned in my Twitter thread where I photographed every page of the book so folks wouldn't have to give him money, Krauss' book is just whines about DEI, trans, and Israel.
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
From my book:
www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
October 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
From my book:
www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
www.amazon.com/Did-Science-...
This argument is essentially that because judges and lawmakers make sloppy and crude demarcations, that crudeness should be rewarded and enshrined as intuitive awareness of some divinely natural categorization, never mind the exceptions and lack of reductionist grounds.
September 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This argument is essentially that because judges and lawmakers make sloppy and crude demarcations, that crudeness should be rewarded and enshrined as intuitive awareness of some divinely natural categorization, never mind the exceptions and lack of reductionist grounds.