tfw ur a poetry school drop out

contextualism is cool and all when pursued carefully but this is just lazy and flat obscurantism with no concrete abstractions with which to move. no history, no conceptual analysis, just vibes and buzz words

i'm following the footnotes like a good boy and oh my fucking god bruh im so bored

re-discovering instantly re-callable delegates by another name is pretty funny

if it isn't obvious i'm going through the citations i can find from the bsky-related ppl and those they reference positively

it must be so humiliating to have pre-DSA professional activist political consciousness (or yknow, would be if they were self-aware)

honestly though its way worse to be the intelligentsia providing grist for their mill, what's your excuse?

lmfao

i h8 political economists

revolting, dishonest, short-sighted form of pragmatism at best, as they never fail to remind us

and the fact that it's an open secret is part of the function, it's not exculpatory

this is just like my immediate impression but i do not get good vibes from albert hirschman, particularly the people he inspires

and you can say that's kind of unfair and, yea maybe, but intellectual contributions are also discursive contributions and they aren't just freestanding. usually the legacy of a thing will give you some hints about what the work is actually about, even if unbeknownst to the author

all i'll say is that it makes sense that bsky folks were inspired and influenced by the conversations in his footnotes, and i kinda wish they were more upfront about that (but then again, i wish most people were more well-cited for this very reason)

not to say that this is like core foundational whatever, but usually the more tenuously connected things have outsize influence. like my politics page doesn't only list things i completely agree with, just things that have been important to my development.

what im saying is i want there to be a reading list on the bsky homepage with no context provided as to their significance to the project, and have folks figure it out from there

your favorite posters favorite poster

youtube stop changing things pls, you're not very good at it

the old playlist modal was way better than the dropdown that only lets you select one assignment before closing. the icons are helpful but they also make the ui cramped. also, probably not intentional in the old design, but it would persist when the page redirected

understandable why theres a whole cottage industry of people modifying your site to make it usable, but unlike the AWS resellers there's not really the option here

i'm not very interested in communicating with solemnity and substantiality atm, it's all so heavy and murky

this track is good for understanding that levity is a deficiency as well

it's fun reading predecessors because you get to have moments like "hobbes you dirty dog, you stole that from aristotle"

and the secondary thought is like, well yea maybe the idea was just a good one, and introducing it in modified form for your own purposes in the context of your own work is important and frankly relatively transparent, there's nothing duplicitous about it

which is true but i think the main point im getting at is that a lot of those influences and connections aren't emphasized nearly enough

i think this is probably due to 1) the right context is difficult for this type thing, it's difficult to feel comfortable asserting it in passing in an academic piece when it's not your main concern. so even if it's readily acknowledged or understood by experts in the field, the lack of

codification of that knowledge doesn't filter through. which connects to 2) in that the right context is dedicated course material on the subject, but undergrad courses attempt to cover so much quantity they rarely have time to meditate on individual points and tracing their lineage.

and not to mention i lowkey wouldn't expect the TAs to be familiar enough or to care enough either. i can maybe see it being spoken about in grad classes or seminars but those are very hit or miss and can be just as cursory in all honesty.

i think the best context is a dedicated course by a scholar of that particular author, ideally with a scope to a single book. but even then, it could be too ambitious depending on the text and the individual

intellectual history just isn't sexy but we all suffer by its neglect

i’m hoping to have the energy to read a little more tmrw

boredom as virtue was a theme last time in a way i don’t think it will be this time

honestly i’m a little self conscious about my appearance

inhabiting it is cool but it’s more complicated when i’m going to be seen by others

nvm they’ve still got the sauce

(this is a complete non-sequitur considering it’s in-genre i just wanted to play)

i’m in low energy fatigue recovery mode but that’s good because i wanna be well rested for this week

carbonhead is great for "give it a year you'll stay a boy in the end"

mostly because it makes me feel sad for others but pride for myself

i love my body :)

i am corporeal

it totally makes sense that the marias blew up tbh

still surprising to see those numbers when i come back to visit

fuck pareto optimality !!!

your spiritually unemployed friend on a saturday at 7:08 am central

!!!

also i wasn’t going to be able to focus on anything else until they were done

two Other Orders SLGs down and one QAN created