Anarchist reading of Descartes as against all authority, including the State of the body.

Serres on the Harlequinian cogito // Deleuze on the sexual body as Harlequin's cloak everything patched and folded together

Lonely being a Deleuzian whose interest is in sensation

That time Wittgenstein designed a house and it just kinda looks like the Tractatus.

A million people forcibly displaced.

falling in validation with you

My first Serres, pretty excited!

Ontology, that is to say, Ethics

Deleuze is a philosopher of existence to the degree that he asks what happens to concepts when they pass over into existence - when they are 'forcibly assigned a place in space and time'. Here, existence is what the concept can't remain indifferent to...

I really like Wahl's very disarming first-pass definition of 'existence': what stands out from among the sum total of possibilities, or separates itself from the absolute.

"Everything thus happens for us as though we reflected back to surfaces the light which emanates from them, the light which, had it passed on unopposed, would never have been revealed" – Bergson, M&M

Jean Wahl, laying out the project of transcendental empiricism in 1944: "the higher empiricism ... that seeks to show the conditions, let us not say the possibility, but of the reality of experience".

Adorno's condensed but punchy recap of the passage from Kant > Hegel > Kierkegaard, measuring the distance and nearness of each to the next:

Zionists have coveted the land south of the Litani, since the late 19th century. Israel's talks about "buffer zones" are, AS ALWAYS, about territorial maximalism

Budgie, Adorno, Kierkegaard

Crary historicizing Bergson's theory of perception as anxiety over the automation of perceptual response by mass spectacular culture:

Just found out that Mallarmé once put together a women's fashion mag (La Dernière Mode) which he designed and wrote entirely himself for eight issues under a bunch of pseudonyms like Marguerite de Ponty and Miss Satin.

Édouard Manet, The Balcony (1868) // René Magritte, Perspective II-Manet's Balcony (1950)

J. Crary - Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (2001). A prehistory of the attention economy.

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

Current Read: J. Crary - Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century

Barthes // Kafka, on photography and looking away.

Barthes: no more critiquing petit-bourgeois mystifications - time for a semioclasm of Western discourse.

Sappho, fragments

The global neo-Nazi ruling faction is inflicting upon the world a new era of forced mass starvation www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/a...

Valentine's Reading, cont.

"This morning I must get off an 'important' letter right away — one on which the success of a certain undertaking depends; but instead I write a love letter — which I do not send". (Barthes)

Any recommendations on psychoanalysis and pets? Even pets as a metaphor (of neurosis).

Can 20 people join us today in donating to the Sameer Project for Ramadan? $8 provides a meal for a family, and $32 can pay for groceries. You can also donate more to fund a water truck or a water desalination plant. Pass this on, please. See their IG for details: www.instagram.com/p/DUq5PoSjkK0

Valentine's weekend read <3

Never Gonna Give You Up is a song about Lacanian ethics btw

the illegal chemical weapons Israel uses to incinerate Palestinians at 3,500C, leaving no identifiable traces of the dead. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Existenzstack

Super intriguing review of what looks to be a great read: www.historicalmaterialism.org/fully-emascu...

God I hate the atmosphere of cloying salaciousness that hangs about all this Epstein stuff like humidity. Like, there's an oogling element, like wow, we can see the dirty underside and it's horrible but also in this barely concealed way really exciting for people.

The Deleuzian case for reading a shit ton of Kierkegaard is that K is an explorer of the incommensurable above all. It doesn't take much to read Fear & Trembling as a book not about faith but about becoming-imperceptible.

Depressed astronaut who just needs a bit of space right now.

This frikken cover

Ahhh the difference and similarities between Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are so interesting because they're both raging against an 'economic' conception of being which levels everything out into exchange and debt, but for K the solution to this is precisely the transworldy which –

She should have won the Nobel peace prize but silencing her and her people was the goal of the tiktiok ban. I cried with her so many times. I will never forget the horrors we all saw and how the masses learned about Palestine and tried to stop it. TikTok's algorithm fed our empathy and educated us.

listen here you stupid leftoid, if you just voted blue in 2024, ICE would be ruining the lives of immigrant families quietly and efficiently in a way where we wouldn't have to hear about it on the news

"There are no internal drives in desire, only assemblages. Desire is always assembled; it is what the assemblage determines it to be." —Deleuze & Guattari

Watching City the Animation and the whole time I have a big stupid grin on my face look at this love of color and vibrancy

Kierkegaard makes for an interesting paring with Bataille of all people. If for B there is both a restricted and general economy, for K there is a restricted and divine economy. In Derrida the distinction between the divine and the general become... undecidable.

I know everybody wants to feel optimistic about Carney, Macron, Merz et al talking about a new post-RBIO system, but remember that they’re only panicking now because the structural barbarism is banging on their own doors. They don’t want to remedy it; just sustain its redirection.

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

A not-insignificant part of the reactions of incredulity about Greenland is that Danes are not the Right Kind of People for This Kind of Thing to happen to.

Reifying my girlfriend and getting critiqued by Adorno for it

I Become a Political Traitor - Sara Littlecrow-Russell (2001); (1/3)