Steven Rodriguez
@smarcorodriguez.bsky.social
Reading the songs of women in the Hebrew Bible, Zhuāngzǐ, and Antony and Cleopatra
I was quite honestly not expecting to loathe Thomas Hobbes this much! Here he is, saying that metaphor (yes, metaphor) is one of the four principal “abuses” of language.
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I was quite honestly not expecting to loathe Thomas Hobbes this much! Here he is, saying that metaphor (yes, metaphor) is one of the four principal “abuses” of language.
This is the worst definition of imagination that I’ve ever seen, but what would you expect from Thomas Hobbes, the guy who is responsible for the worst translation of the Iliad of all time?
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is the worst definition of imagination that I’ve ever seen, but what would you expect from Thomas Hobbes, the guy who is responsible for the worst translation of the Iliad of all time?
MEANWHILE, Śāntideva is over here FULL of guilt, sin, confession, and Buddhist missionary ZEAL. So different!!
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
MEANWHILE, Śāntideva is over here FULL of guilt, sin, confession, and Buddhist missionary ZEAL. So different!!
Starting this right after Zhuāngzǐ and WOW the Mahāyāna Buddhist vibes are SO DIFFERENT from the Daoist world I was in for a year...
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Starting this right after Zhuāngzǐ and WOW the Mahāyāna Buddhist vibes are SO DIFFERENT from the Daoist world I was in for a year...
I’m back in this book. It is so wild to read Chinese nationalists in the early 20th century advocating for western Aristotelian rationality because they felt that their own Chinese traditions lacked the philosophical rigor of the West. But, like, I just read Zhuangzi and it was amazing??
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I’m back in this book. It is so wild to read Chinese nationalists in the early 20th century advocating for western Aristotelian rationality because they felt that their own Chinese traditions lacked the philosophical rigor of the West. But, like, I just read Zhuangzi and it was amazing??
I finished Zhuāngzǐ! Easily one of top ten best books I've ever read!!
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I finished Zhuāngzǐ! Easily one of top ten best books I've ever read!!
Starting this tonight
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Starting this tonight
if anyone was wondering, back in 2012 i was doing the SAME JAM I'm doing today, ha!!
October 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
if anyone was wondering, back in 2012 i was doing the SAME JAM I'm doing today, ha!!
When the Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún (1499 – 1590) catalogued the list of Mexica (Aztec) gods, he instinctively matched each one to its Roman analogue.
The interpretatio romana runs deep.
The interpretatio romana runs deep.
October 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
When the Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún (1499 – 1590) catalogued the list of Mexica (Aztec) gods, he instinctively matched each one to its Roman analogue.
The interpretatio romana runs deep.
The interpretatio romana runs deep.
Good morning. It's time for more Mexican reception history of Virgil's Aeneid!
October 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Good morning. It's time for more Mexican reception history of Virgil's Aeneid!
Keeping alive the Homeric “skill” of insulting your opponents, among his many insults, Virgil has Turnus call Aeneas a “Phrygian eunuch.”
Is there a precedent for this in Homer?
Is there a precedent for this in Homer?
October 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Keeping alive the Homeric “skill” of insulting your opponents, among his many insults, Virgil has Turnus call Aeneas a “Phrygian eunuch.”
Is there a precedent for this in Homer?
Is there a precedent for this in Homer?
Yes! It is possible to over-analyze! Just last night I was at a bar trying to analyze if this was your drink or not
October 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Yes! It is possible to over-analyze! Just last night I was at a bar trying to analyze if this was your drink or not
Balthasar! This opening is TERRIBLE, one of the worst openings I’ve ever read
October 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Balthasar! This opening is TERRIBLE, one of the worst openings I’ve ever read
good morning, we’re over here transcribing a proverb from Zhuāngzǐ, learning new terms, and practicing our very bad Chinese handwriting
October 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
good morning, we’re over here transcribing a proverb from Zhuāngzǐ, learning new terms, and practicing our very bad Chinese handwriting
Ok so the intro to this volume of Balthasar was pretty amazing. I was planning to skip right to Virgil but now I’m just too curious about his take on Homer…
September 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Ok so the intro to this volume of Balthasar was pretty amazing. I was planning to skip right to Virgil but now I’m just too curious about his take on Homer…
Getting texts like this is my love language. (the less context and warning before the text, the better…)
September 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Getting texts like this is my love language. (the less context and warning before the text, the better…)
Ann Arbor rn
September 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ann Arbor rn
It’s so wild to think that von Balthasar was at one point a Barth fanboy, when he writes sentences like this…
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It’s so wild to think that von Balthasar was at one point a Barth fanboy, when he writes sentences like this…
What happened?? I’m living the dream. Just made some money on two of the side hustles, now doing homeschooling with Esther at a coffee shop.
September 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What happened?? I’m living the dream. Just made some money on two of the side hustles, now doing homeschooling with Esther at a coffee shop.
Jesus: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Zhuāngzǐ: This is what it’s like to be a little kid:
Zhuāngzǐ: This is what it’s like to be a little kid:
September 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Jesus: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Zhuāngzǐ: This is what it’s like to be a little kid:
Zhuāngzǐ: This is what it’s like to be a little kid:
A friend of mine alerted me to the existence of this book and it is kind of blowing my mind. The author puts ZHUANGZI, Spinoza, and Girard (!?) in conversation about "the violence that arises from the pursuit of identity." I am very interested...
September 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A friend of mine alerted me to the existence of this book and it is kind of blowing my mind. The author puts ZHUANGZI, Spinoza, and Girard (!?) in conversation about "the violence that arises from the pursuit of identity." I am very interested...
So it’s finally come to this. The revolution is complete. The Overton Window has lurched so far that what was once unthinkable is now the societal norm.
September 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
So it’s finally come to this. The revolution is complete. The Overton Window has lurched so far that what was once unthinkable is now the societal norm.
we got a cat
September 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
we got a cat
Second show this afternoon let’s go!
September 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Second show this afternoon let’s go!