Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦
@sal46.bsky.social
I am interested in philosophy, religion, art and politics. I love pop music and dogs.
The early Gabriel & Steve Hackett stuff has grown on me a lot. What people don’t realise is that at that point they were kind of Bowie & Roxy adjacent cool to hipsters. Wearing a dress and a fox’s head might seem a joke now but at the time it would’ve seemed fascinatingly freaky and weird.
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The early Gabriel & Steve Hackett stuff has grown on me a lot. What people don’t realise is that at that point they were kind of Bowie & Roxy adjacent cool to hipsters. Wearing a dress and a fox’s head might seem a joke now but at the time it would’ve seemed fascinatingly freaky and weird.
To me he’s looking more like the guild navigator in Lynch’s Dune.
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
To me he’s looking more like the guild navigator in Lynch’s Dune.
Chekhov was the ultimate hottie playwright imo 😀
November 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Chekhov was the ultimate hottie playwright imo 😀
Film is good.
The coolest looking playwright ever.
The coolest looking playwright ever.
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Film is good.
The coolest looking playwright ever.
The coolest looking playwright ever.
I disagree that Weininger is so far removed from our time. Yes, he must be understood in the context of the academic landscape of fin-de-siècle Vienna, but his prescience in describing (in the most hysterical terms) the contemporary metaphysical crisis of heterosexuality is impressive…
November 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I disagree that Weininger is so far removed from our time. Yes, he must be understood in the context of the academic landscape of fin-de-siècle Vienna, but his prescience in describing (in the most hysterical terms) the contemporary metaphysical crisis of heterosexuality is impressive…
My adult self thinks it’s really overwrought, but..
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My adult self thinks it’s really overwrought, but..
To be fair to Agamben, Zizek is wrong to understand him as a straightforward critic of the state. He is a critic of the security apparatus. This transcends the state.
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
To be fair to Agamben, Zizek is wrong to understand him as a straightforward critic of the state. He is a critic of the security apparatus. This transcends the state.
What Badiou sees as a false feminism, a betrayal of the feminism that at the end he hopes to be embodied by the ‘new girl’, who is yet to come, is the existing world of quasi-delinquent boys & men stuck in an arrested adolescent inertia while managerial women lean in to a new authority. 11/
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
What Badiou sees as a false feminism, a betrayal of the feminism that at the end he hopes to be embodied by the ‘new girl’, who is yet to come, is the existing world of quasi-delinquent boys & men stuck in an arrested adolescent inertia while managerial women lean in to a new authority. 11/
There are a two books that are especially interesting on the influx of women into middle-class jobs since the late-70s: one from a young liberal feminist, one from an octogenarian French Maoist. The first is ‘The End of Men’ by Hannah Rosin. 2/
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
There are a two books that are especially interesting on the influx of women into middle-class jobs since the late-70s: one from a young liberal feminist, one from an octogenarian French Maoist. The first is ‘The End of Men’ by Hannah Rosin. 2/
Allow me one of my complicating deconstructions. 😀 I think this re-gendering of the workplace needs to be unpacked in the context of post-industrial capitalism. The fascists obviously get this totally wrong, but it warrants a more thoughtful response from progressives. 1/🧵
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Allow me one of my complicating deconstructions. 😀 I think this re-gendering of the workplace needs to be unpacked in the context of post-industrial capitalism. The fascists obviously get this totally wrong, but it warrants a more thoughtful response from progressives. 1/🧵
I hate this fuck so much.
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I hate this fuck so much.
Great film, but I’d like to take this opportunity to also shout out the bone-chilling 1968 TV adaption of ‘Oh Whistle & I’ll Come To You My Lad’. The amateur archaeologist blows the whistle he finds on the Saxon burial ground, then turns to see this figure watching him as the sun sets. Brilliant.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Great film, but I’d like to take this opportunity to also shout out the bone-chilling 1968 TV adaption of ‘Oh Whistle & I’ll Come To You My Lad’. The amateur archaeologist blows the whistle he finds on the Saxon burial ground, then turns to see this figure watching him as the sun sets. Brilliant.
Never has he ever smiled like that before. Never. Love can melt the hardest of hearts.
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Never has he ever smiled like that before. Never. Love can melt the hardest of hearts.
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from
He went on to do wacky but really interesting stuff around cult communities and alternative philosophies. Like some weird cult hideout in the mountains with the title ‘The world is nothing history is nothing our love can make us clean.’
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
He went on to do wacky but really interesting stuff around cult communities and alternative philosophies. Like some weird cult hideout in the mountains with the title ‘The world is nothing history is nothing our love can make us clean.’
There’s this artist called David Thorpe who made these collages of utopian structures, inspired by everything from the London skyline at twilight (“when you can’t see all the dirt and graffiti”), Morris circle / Bauhaus world-building manifestos, Robert Owen and Bond movie sets..
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
There’s this artist called David Thorpe who made these collages of utopian structures, inspired by everything from the London skyline at twilight (“when you can’t see all the dirt and graffiti”), Morris circle / Bauhaus world-building manifestos, Robert Owen and Bond movie sets..
Agreed. No matter much money is poured into these big budget spectacles I prefer it when films had less smoothed-out, immersive ‘realism’ and more a poetic feel of another world. For instance, these are from ‘The Masque of the Red Death (1964) and ‘The Company of Wolves’ (1984).
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Agreed. No matter much money is poured into these big budget spectacles I prefer it when films had less smoothed-out, immersive ‘realism’ and more a poetic feel of another world. For instance, these are from ‘The Masque of the Red Death (1964) and ‘The Company of Wolves’ (1984).
No they didn’t. Some were shut up in tower blocks in nightmarish situations of poverty and abuse.
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
No they didn’t. Some were shut up in tower blocks in nightmarish situations of poverty and abuse.