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PhD in political theory, posts on philosophy, Nietzsche, mental health, politics, and games of all sorts. “The stillest words are those that bring the storm.”
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I realize I’m very late to this but if the people currently in charge of Star Trek are capable of making a show as good as Strange New Worlds why did they choose to make a show as awful as Discovery?

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It’s telling that today’s right wing (and those appeasing them) feels compelled to resurrect old legitimizing narratives like free markets, personal liberties, and Christianity that MAGA has effectively rendered obsolete.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

When my grandfather, a European Jewish refugee and WWII vet, passed away in 2007, I remember talking to a family friend at the funeral. The friend, a former Leo Strauss student, worried about how few people even then were still alive who remembered the struggle of that time. 1/4

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“Postmodern conservatism” is when, instead of fantasizing about real historical purges, the new deputy director of the FBI fantasizes about a bad parody of show trials in a bad movie without even realizing it’s a parody.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

The current equilibrium in our political culture seems involve a large number of people who eagerly vote for the naked Emperor, complain “I immediately regret this decision!” a few months later, then say “Wow look at those clothes he’s wearing! I’m voting for him!” 4 years later.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

“[Humankind’s] self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. The is the situation of politics which fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art.” -Walter Benjamin

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

submitted 10 days ago • 120 comments

I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.

submitted 12 days ago • 85 comments

This is the real long-term threat of AI. And hardly anyone seems to be concerned about it.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I’m reading about the “political Freudians” (Jacoby, The Repression of Psychoanalysis) in the second generation of psychoanalysis, and TIL that the Marxist psychoanalyst Otto Fenichel was the father of political theorist Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, who advised my undergrad advisor! Small world.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

ICYMI, we’re holding a make-up session of The Schizoanalysis Project (Anti-Oedipus reading group) tomorrow at 7 pm EST. We’ll talk more D&G’s analysis of fascism and why it matters for our present moment. Lmk if you’re not on the email list/need the zoom link!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

New article from me in the New Socialist on how AI is the aesthetic of postmodern fascism.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

We’re a bit behind in putting out the next episode of Moral Minority. The second half of B&N is dedicated to demonstrating how we have responsibility to other existents. Existential phenomenology feels indulgent, and yet the call of the Other is always a salient ethical concern.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

“It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.” -Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

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“Alongside bad faith, a truth appears, a method of thinking…and the ontological characteristic of this world of bad faith…is that, in it, being is what it is not, and is not what it is. In consequence, a particular type of evidence appears: *non-persuasive* evidence.” -Jean-Paul Sartre

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Incredible things happening on the other site right now. All in all, it’s probably for the best that they’re being so open about their fascism now. It will expose them for the resentful, unhappy people they are and show they have nothing to offer but revenge and destruction.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments