these gentlemen think that when they have changed the metadata of things they have changed the data itself

ack the sun so bright

its a bold strategy, i'll admit

watch this drive

i'm glad there hasn't been a year of the stable willow yet, all the realistically viable candidates would have been losers

i'm gonna become someone cool

apologies for the interim :)

i had not listened to sweet pills unraveleds before but wow they really are magnificent

i'm too affirmative but leave me be

oh my god this is so funny

oh no lmfao

i still have too much pride, it's unbecoming

no one look, i'm changing

“what matters are not discussions but encounters.” but this can only mean that in a murky sphere of togetherness the moment of friction between competing thoughts, the notion that the various forms of reason work away at one another, is cut off.

i used to be off-put of trying to articulate an understanding beyond my ability but i came to recognize it was a contributor to my debility yknow? so i gotta do it to both push my boundaries and concretize my existing understanding, and sometimes that means punching above my weight class

or more to the point, i won't be forced to confront my lack of understanding when present

the ignorant double down would be embarrassing if i were to stand by the things i say but i'm pretty evidently just tangling myself up to expose what i don't understand to myself

i'm much too weak a historian to attempt any of that yet

ig something that will illustrate my current discomfort is like the strategies that will refuse dichotimization rather than understand the nature of the existing dichotomy that imposes itself, and idealistically (in both senses of the word) pretends like the historical position can be overcome with

the correct sequence of linguistic turns

on the other hand you really can speak intelligibly about the shifting loci of sites of power contestations in light of ascendant nationalisms and the increasing precarity and occasional collapse of international compromise, ig im just trying to say that while thats all well and good it feels too

close to the object and allowing its particularity to dictate too much direction and the bounds of analysis

the choice of emphasis is a little odd considering its a bit far afield from its standard application. meh, i think this isn't a very productive line to go down rn. more appropriate when i'm warmed up again to pomos

i think i was primarily thinking about the inapplicability of neoliberalism to our contemporary condition and what its reinstatiation would mean

the analysis of assimilative pressures just seems so quaint and small-minded now

idk predictably the more i feel hegel the less i feel foucault

disciplinary society seems more and more an anachronism, or at least a misorientation of attention. abstract social domination and the coercion of real abstractions are far more operative

although its a little odd and tone deaf for me to say so, considering the very concrete dominations and economic inefficiencies of cruelty of the current united states trajectory. i suppose it's specifically because of that trajectory that in the grand scheme of things feels so superfluous and

unessential that i'm drawn to my position. those efforts could be reverted tomorrow and while very real abhorrences would cease, they would remain historically negligible irrelevancies

i typed post-pomo-miliue and removed the prefix but i think thats actually more accurate

derrida has this this quote that goes "nothing seems to me less outdated than the classical emancipatory ideal. we cannot attempt to disqualify it today, whether crudely or with sophistication, at least not without treating it too lightly and forming the worst complicities." and he's wrong

orthodox anarchists and pomo nihilist-defensives both eat this stuff up and it just starts us on the wrong track

i'm not fully going to be able to bridge the gap but i'm thinking about defamiliarization as critical method and the orienting assumptions of fixity and unmaking intelligibility

i'm sympathetic to much of that strategy, but obsessive preoccupation misunderstands our predicament. certainly one among many valuable tools, but in my experience it often tends to encompass pomo-miliue lefties entire theoretical repertoire, even if its unarticulated

to be honest its often just premature, theres more necessary work before you begin unmaking the readable world. you haven't a clue what it's doing yet

if you haven't noticed i'm fascinated by the power of the positive right now

do you think kasey would be mad if i started calling her my wondrous hippo cow

My dear, faithful Wondrous Hippo Cow, here a few words of welcome - may you continue to live with the same contentment, the same security, and the same stubborn superiority as the hippo cow overleaf.

what a cute postcard

fell for it again award

okay i'll be honest i've never downloaded anything from nasa, what do i look like

okay fine you caught me i drank kasey's energy drink and now im buzzing and crafting insanities

one aspect of dialectical thought i enjoy is the differential incorporation of sublated moments, like you get to play favorites

phrenology doesn't have the same purchase as skepticism, despite both being left behind and carried forward in their own ways

this is also how you can get comparatively evaluable truths as implicitly developed by nietzsche and adorno, while still shuddering at the thought of confinement to spectra

pragmatist virtue ethics is unfair to virtue ethics which is why it is more true but also undermining of self-certainty until passed through

this is a central point at issue in historicizing philosophy, it's about how you situate your own thought within the world as you find it and as it finds you

which is kind of the interesting insight of pragmatism that you find yourself with positions first and the constructs come after, so they are motivated and are not arbitrary in terms of content or form and are contextually tethered, although once articulated they take on a life of their own

the enlightenment had no patience for conservatism and would had choked itself to death out of dogmatic deprivation, if not for its own smuggled conservatism

this is where negative dialectics can begin its work; the actual is rational, and all that exists deserves to perish