... An if we live, we live to tread on kings.

This bizarre 'nostalgia' towards things that never existed by petty tyrants and fascists was already there before AI came and gave expression to their picture-thinking. Here is Paolo Virno from 2002:

swapped out the swear jar for an 'ontological' jar at work and the chats are getting alot better

I wrote a little about Lear's Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life. A really lovely exploration of Aristotle, Freud, and the Death Drive. weaponizedjoy.blogspot.com/2025/09/Lear...

Rilke, The Seventh Dream

I'm not really a nominalist but I like to call myself one

It's so LARGE

"In response to Socrates' murder, Plato invents philosophy as an act of mourning ... Platonic philosophy can be seen as a sublimated and sophisticated fort-da game. In the Republic, Plato is playing with Socrates' absence and return".

Each faculty, including thought, has only involuntary adventures: involuntary operation remains embedded in the empirical. The Logos breaks up into hieroglyphics, each one of which speaks the transcendent language of a faculty.

Zizek is just the most popular living psychoanalyst because citizens of neoliberalism like their therapy delivered like a joke about kung fu panda

"Untuned ears hear nothing but discord. But those who feel the agonized cry understand its harmony; they hear in it the fulfillment of the most compelling moment of human nature." Incredible line.

[Psychoanalytic philosopher in the 2010s]: When Obi Wan said he felt a great disturbance in the force, did he not hit upon the rift that is sexuality itself, which is then obscured by its domestication into the stable identities of jedi and sith and so on?

fikra-magazine.com/article/180 Actually insane how relevant this remains, 50 years later.

Check out the contents page!!

Much more interesting than whatever bullshit is happening in the US.

Reading today in honor of Jonathan Lear, reader of Aristotle and Freud, RIP

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free ❤️. National strike in Italy!

Some of those who teach courses / Are the same that burn crosses

'Polymorphous perversity' goes so hard as a psychoanalytic term.

"Without the instant and continuous political, military and economic support of the USA, Israel would have been simply unable to pursue its genocide. Indeed, almost all Western states quickly bought into the campaign." Martin Shaw systematically recounts how Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.

hello I am master philosopher Alain Badiou and according to my metaphysics there are four kinds of change small medium big and biggest here is my 600 page book where you can read all about it

Deleuze oomfs into electronic music (redundant qualification), today's paper of interest is –

Thread where I try to write about how if you scramble Bergson's theory of time, you can get a kind of temporal interpretation of Agamben's 'state of exception', especially when thought through the contemporary politics of 'instantaneous nostalgia': 🧵

Proust and Bergson were besties, and at least one point of contact in prose is how each of them wrote about wasps. Proust, Swann's Way, 1928:

I think Badiou is maybe the most rigorous thinker we have of both consistency and composition, which I think are both really key philosophical terms which still fly under the radar.

Second Manifesto For Philosophy

Probably still the best starting point to try and get a frame around the events. newleftreview.org/issues/ii149...

All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Prime Minister and King, Steinmeier and Macron, anti-immigrant Radicals and German police-spies.

finger slipped bought another Derrida book

Absolutely brilliant piece by @jamiemerchant.bsky.social for the latest Brooklyn Rail, bringing together Simon Clarke, @benbraun.bsky.social's asset management capitalism, @iliasalami.bsky.social's state capitalism and much, much more. brooklynrail.org/2025/09/fiel...

I would fucking lose it, need this injected in my veins.

The coolest thing to happen to me this weekend was to find out that some oomfs have translated some of my small Deleuze explainers into Chinese! To be put to flight in a language other than my own - a total honor! Links:

Big fan of the contrast of these pages.

If you don't reread your texts, you're bound to simply repeat them (S/Z):

In my ethics class if you pull a "What if we do [awful thing] to [vulnerable group] but it yields [nominally good result] in [hypothetical scenario]" you get your pinky finger cut off like the Yakuza and then everyone knows the kind of person you are for the rest of your life.

In Deleuze school they tell you this line is about Freud but actually it's about the American relationship to genocide.

Liberal Americans are ultimately mad that these people see more clearly what America has always been - a genocidal, world killing project steeped in the blood of its indigenous and millions of others around the globe - and don't pay deference to the veneer of the US as a beneficent State.

South East Asian foodcourts are the closest thing we have to actually existing communism send skeet

[Badiou hat] Symptomatic that 'make it make sense' is one of the phrases de jour. Everyone's after a slice of sense and not the seizure of eternal truths 😮‍💨

Jameson on utopia: "It would be best, perhaps, to think of an alternate world as one contiguous with ours but without any connection or access to it / Then, from time to time, rays from [that] other world break into this one, and we are reminded that Utopia exists." (Valences)

Cronulla never ended in Australia because invasion never ended in Australia.

Once you really internalize this, all the little ways in which we in go about trying to repair our current society, appear as so many efforts to prolong its genocidal capacities. Every instance of good is colored by the abyss of mass murder which stands beneath it in support.

I've really never had so many genuinely lovely interactions with random people in public than when I've worn my keffiyeh - it's a generator of solidarity and joy.

Indonesia 😍

Ready for political action. (cleaned my room)

Performatively reading but it's felicitous so it's OK.

I think we're going to have to interview another 3 or 4 people who are committing genocide or supporting genocide and that way we'll be able to figure out the kind of people they are.

What is it that these interviews – Friedland, Chotiner – provide that the testimony of 300,000 murdered Palestinians do not? That these people are monsters? Were the fields of bodies, ruptured in high definition by American hands, not enough?

Female figure, Sardinia, Italy