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Oscar Wilde said, Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. ~ I say, It is better to die on your effete than to live on your knees.
The posts and palaces and public places have been filled with buffoons, fools and clowns at various levels, offering a variety of services. Their function is to preach before the fetish the fiction of its perfection.
— Achille Mbembe, *De la postcolonie*
— Achille Mbembe, *De la postcolonie*
October 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The posts and palaces and public places have been filled with buffoons, fools and clowns at various levels, offering a variety of services. Their function is to preach before the fetish the fiction of its perfection.
— Achille Mbembe, *De la postcolonie*
— Achille Mbembe, *De la postcolonie*
The most potent component of racism is frame-flipping — positioning the bigot as the actual victim. Blacks are not victims, but beneficiaries of the war against hard-working whites. This is bigotry that doesn't seek to name-call but prefers to change the subject and straw man.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The most potent component of racism is frame-flipping — positioning the bigot as the actual victim. Blacks are not victims, but beneficiaries of the war against hard-working whites. This is bigotry that doesn't seek to name-call but prefers to change the subject and straw man.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
"I don't quite know what an Aryan is."
"Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link between man and beast. That can be proved by the fact that no animals, except the Baltic goose, have blue eyes."
— Nancy Mitford, Wigs on the Green (1934)
"Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link between man and beast. That can be proved by the fact that no animals, except the Baltic goose, have blue eyes."
— Nancy Mitford, Wigs on the Green (1934)
August 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"I don't quite know what an Aryan is."
"Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link between man and beast. That can be proved by the fact that no animals, except the Baltic goose, have blue eyes."
— Nancy Mitford, Wigs on the Green (1934)
"Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link between man and beast. That can be proved by the fact that no animals, except the Baltic goose, have blue eyes."
— Nancy Mitford, Wigs on the Green (1934)
There are only two problems with the world today:
1. The world.
2. Today.
— Nein (Eric Jarosinski)
1. The world.
2. Today.
— Nein (Eric Jarosinski)
August 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
There are only two problems with the world today:
1. The world.
2. Today.
— Nein (Eric Jarosinski)
1. The world.
2. Today.
— Nein (Eric Jarosinski)
✠ Catholic things ✠
Breviaries, lectionaries, reliquaries, mortuaries, misereres, ossuaries, cemeteries, dicasteries, prebendaries, sanctuaries, sermonaries, oratories, vestiaries, seminaries, monasteries, antiphonaries, responsories, hymnaries, friaries, and rosaries.
Keats' airy Citadel.
Breviaries, lectionaries, reliquaries, mortuaries, misereres, ossuaries, cemeteries, dicasteries, prebendaries, sanctuaries, sermonaries, oratories, vestiaries, seminaries, monasteries, antiphonaries, responsories, hymnaries, friaries, and rosaries.
Keats' airy Citadel.
August 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
✠ Catholic things ✠
Breviaries, lectionaries, reliquaries, mortuaries, misereres, ossuaries, cemeteries, dicasteries, prebendaries, sanctuaries, sermonaries, oratories, vestiaries, seminaries, monasteries, antiphonaries, responsories, hymnaries, friaries, and rosaries.
Keats' airy Citadel.
Breviaries, lectionaries, reliquaries, mortuaries, misereres, ossuaries, cemeteries, dicasteries, prebendaries, sanctuaries, sermonaries, oratories, vestiaries, seminaries, monasteries, antiphonaries, responsories, hymnaries, friaries, and rosaries.
Keats' airy Citadel.
O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart
May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
With this dead-killing news!
Queen Elizabeth
Richard III. 4,1
May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
With this dead-killing news!
Queen Elizabeth
Richard III. 4,1
July 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart
May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
With this dead-killing news!
Queen Elizabeth
Richard III. 4,1
May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon
With this dead-killing news!
Queen Elizabeth
Richard III. 4,1
Fascism, for Adorno, is therefore not an excrescence that can be simply removed from an otherwise healthy organism.
July 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Fascism, for Adorno, is therefore not an excrescence that can be simply removed from an otherwise healthy organism.
Fascism evacuates politics of its content and reduces it to the mere circulation of propaganda. The old fascism and the new are alike in their ingenious use of propaganda without a higher purpose, as if the only aim were the perfection of mass psychology for its own sake.— Peter E. Gordon
July 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Fascism evacuates politics of its content and reduces it to the mere circulation of propaganda. The old fascism and the new are alike in their ingenious use of propaganda without a higher purpose, as if the only aim were the perfection of mass psychology for its own sake.— Peter E. Gordon
Not that I have anything against paederasty myself — each man must decide for himself where beauty lies and surely the more affection in this world the better — but it is common knowledge that some paederasts are subject to pressures that do not apply to other men.
— Dr Stephen Maturin, HMS Surprise
— Dr Stephen Maturin, HMS Surprise
May 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Not that I have anything against paederasty myself — each man must decide for himself where beauty lies and surely the more affection in this world the better — but it is common knowledge that some paederasts are subject to pressures that do not apply to other men.
— Dr Stephen Maturin, HMS Surprise
— Dr Stephen Maturin, HMS Surprise
You fast, but Satan does not eat. You labour fervently, but Satan never sleeps. You want to light a votive candle, but they have disappeared because Satan has put a tariff on them. The only way to outperform Satan is by acquiring humility, for Satan has no humility.
— apologies to St. Moses
— apologies to St. Moses
April 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
You fast, but Satan does not eat. You labour fervently, but Satan never sleeps. You want to light a votive candle, but they have disappeared because Satan has put a tariff on them. The only way to outperform Satan is by acquiring humility, for Satan has no humility.
— apologies to St. Moses
— apologies to St. Moses
I danced with a Great Dane. He walked on his hind legs and wore an evening dress. I submitted entirely to the dog and I had the feeling that I was able to dance for the first time in my life, secure and without inhibition. Occasionally we kissed, the dog and I. (T.W. Adorno, Dream notes)
March 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I danced with a Great Dane. He walked on his hind legs and wore an evening dress. I submitted entirely to the dog and I had the feeling that I was able to dance for the first time in my life, secure and without inhibition. Occasionally we kissed, the dog and I. (T.W. Adorno, Dream notes)
There is no right pet in the wrong one.
(Lily Latté with her cat, Theodor W. Adorno with his dog, and Fritz Lang with his opossum)
(Lily Latté with her cat, Theodor W. Adorno with his dog, and Fritz Lang with his opossum)
March 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
There is no right pet in the wrong one.
(Lily Latté with her cat, Theodor W. Adorno with his dog, and Fritz Lang with his opossum)
(Lily Latté with her cat, Theodor W. Adorno with his dog, and Fritz Lang with his opossum)
The Nazis knew that broadcasting gave their cause stature as the printing press did to the Reformation. The Führer’s metaphysical charisma ... turned out finally to be merely the omnipresence of his radio addresses, which demonically parodies that of the divine spirit.
— Theodor Adorno
— Theodor Adorno
February 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Nazis knew that broadcasting gave their cause stature as the printing press did to the Reformation. The Führer’s metaphysical charisma ... turned out finally to be merely the omnipresence of his radio addresses, which demonically parodies that of the divine spirit.
— Theodor Adorno
— Theodor Adorno
Adorno - The Right is incapable of irony and utterly immune to satire
Irony’s medium, the difference between ideology and reality, has vanished. It resigns itself to confirmation of reality by its mere duplication. Irony used to say: so it claims to be, but so it is in fact. (1/2)
Irony’s medium, the difference between ideology and reality, has vanished. It resigns itself to confirmation of reality by its mere duplication. Irony used to say: so it claims to be, but so it is in fact. (1/2)
January 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Adorno - The Right is incapable of irony and utterly immune to satire
Irony’s medium, the difference between ideology and reality, has vanished. It resigns itself to confirmation of reality by its mere duplication. Irony used to say: so it claims to be, but so it is in fact. (1/2)
Irony’s medium, the difference between ideology and reality, has vanished. It resigns itself to confirmation of reality by its mere duplication. Irony used to say: so it claims to be, but so it is in fact. (1/2)
Long ago, Plato told us that the human being is neither a god nor a beast, but someone in between. Philosophy too is in between, neither completely wise nor entirely ignorant. What then would it mean to philosophize in between? What is the being of the between?
W. Desmond, Being and the Between
W. Desmond, Being and the Between
January 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Long ago, Plato told us that the human being is neither a god nor a beast, but someone in between. Philosophy too is in between, neither completely wise nor entirely ignorant. What then would it mean to philosophize in between? What is the being of the between?
W. Desmond, Being and the Between
W. Desmond, Being and the Between
"I have no hobby."
I should like to elucidate the problem with the help of a trivial experience of my own. Time and time again, when questioned or interviewed, one is asked about one's hobbies. (1/6)
I should like to elucidate the problem with the help of a trivial experience of my own. Time and time again, when questioned or interviewed, one is asked about one's hobbies. (1/6)
December 28, 2024 at 7:58 PM
"I have no hobby."
I should like to elucidate the problem with the help of a trivial experience of my own. Time and time again, when questioned or interviewed, one is asked about one's hobbies. (1/6)
I should like to elucidate the problem with the help of a trivial experience of my own. Time and time again, when questioned or interviewed, one is asked about one's hobbies. (1/6)
Teddy goes to the gym
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful demise has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. (1/2)
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful demise has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. (1/2)
December 23, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Teddy goes to the gym
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful demise has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. (1/2)
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful demise has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. (1/2)
One thing is certain: the irrationality of society has reached a point where only the gloomiest predictions have any plausibility.
— Max Horkheimer, on German politics in 1932
— Max Horkheimer, on German politics in 1932
December 16, 2024 at 7:10 PM
One thing is certain: the irrationality of society has reached a point where only the gloomiest predictions have any plausibility.
— Max Horkheimer, on German politics in 1932
— Max Horkheimer, on German politics in 1932
[Teilhard de Chardin] ran afoul of Roman authorities over his thinking. In the 1920s, evolution was still a new current in thought, as the church reckoned, and it had not yet penetrated Rome's layers of brocade.
— Annie Dillard, For the time being (1999), p. 101
— Annie Dillard, For the time being (1999), p. 101
December 16, 2024 at 6:27 AM
[Teilhard de Chardin] ran afoul of Roman authorities over his thinking. In the 1920s, evolution was still a new current in thought, as the church reckoned, and it had not yet penetrated Rome's layers of brocade.
— Annie Dillard, For the time being (1999), p. 101
— Annie Dillard, For the time being (1999), p. 101
How to categorize the ineffable shittiness of many human predilections and preoccupations, not by means of the obfuscatory language of critical analysis but rather by employing the everyday expressions we know and love? Let us call it the scatology of ideas. We shall begin with philosophy.(1/1)
December 12, 2024 at 12:31 AM
How to categorize the ineffable shittiness of many human predilections and preoccupations, not by means of the obfuscatory language of critical analysis but rather by employing the everyday expressions we know and love? Let us call it the scatology of ideas. We shall begin with philosophy.(1/1)
Long ago, Plato told us that the human being is neither a god nor a beast, but someone in between. Philosophy too is in between, neither completely wise nor entirely ignorant. What then would it mean to philosophize in between? What is the being of the between?
— William Desmond, Being & the Between
— William Desmond, Being & the Between
December 11, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Long ago, Plato told us that the human being is neither a god nor a beast, but someone in between. Philosophy too is in between, neither completely wise nor entirely ignorant. What then would it mean to philosophize in between? What is the being of the between?
— William Desmond, Being & the Between
— William Desmond, Being & the Between
and certainly no philosophical method is more apt to hide its own most metaphysical dogmas, most egregious crudities, and most obvious flaws from itself, and no other is so likely to mistake a descent into oversimplification for an advance in clarity.
David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God (2/2)
David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God (2/2)
December 6, 2024 at 6:28 PM
and certainly no philosophical method is more apt to hide its own most metaphysical dogmas, most egregious crudities, and most obvious flaws from itself, and no other is so likely to mistake a descent into oversimplification for an advance in clarity.
David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God (2/2)
David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God (2/2)
The Revolution, how betrayed?
By whom misled, by whom dismayed?
What Stalin did and Trotsky said
Beguiled my Sabbath ease in bed.
And while the bell from yonder steeple
Doles out opium to the people,
'Tis only just that Marx should be
The opium of the bourgeoisie.
— Anonymous. Australia, 1940s
By whom misled, by whom dismayed?
What Stalin did and Trotsky said
Beguiled my Sabbath ease in bed.
And while the bell from yonder steeple
Doles out opium to the people,
'Tis only just that Marx should be
The opium of the bourgeoisie.
— Anonymous. Australia, 1940s
December 6, 2024 at 4:45 AM
The Revolution, how betrayed?
By whom misled, by whom dismayed?
What Stalin did and Trotsky said
Beguiled my Sabbath ease in bed.
And while the bell from yonder steeple
Doles out opium to the people,
'Tis only just that Marx should be
The opium of the bourgeoisie.
— Anonymous. Australia, 1940s
By whom misled, by whom dismayed?
What Stalin did and Trotsky said
Beguiled my Sabbath ease in bed.
And while the bell from yonder steeple
Doles out opium to the people,
'Tis only just that Marx should be
The opium of the bourgeoisie.
— Anonymous. Australia, 1940s
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.
— Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism (London: New Left Books, 1976)
— Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism (London: New Left Books, 1976)
December 4, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.
— Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism (London: New Left Books, 1976)
— Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism (London: New Left Books, 1976)
The poets regret to inform you that truth is beauty. Beauty is truth. And the ugly truth is, well, philosophy.
Verbum sap.
from the always delightful
@neinquarterly.bsky.social
Verbum sap.
from the always delightful
@neinquarterly.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The poets regret to inform you that truth is beauty. Beauty is truth. And the ugly truth is, well, philosophy.
Verbum sap.
from the always delightful
@neinquarterly.bsky.social
Verbum sap.
from the always delightful
@neinquarterly.bsky.social