schmitt really called blumenberg an autist

i spent too long making this

I think I want to stream OSRS (Zulrah, ToB, Varlamore content) while talking about theories of human sacrifice (Girard, Bataille, Burkert)

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men will really write shit like this and then convert to Catholicism

If professional wrestling is the contemporary equivalent of classical Greek tragedy, re: a performance of reciprocal violence and the (containment of the) threat of contagion it presents to the community, then is the Jobber or 'enhancement talent' the correlate of the Girardian scapegoat?

[stadium chant:] PRI-MAL MUR-DER 👏- 👏- 👏👏👏

Broke: quest for the historical Jesus Woke: quest for the historical Muhammad Bespoke: quest for the historical John the Baptist

What are Origins made of? The murder or the cover-up? The sacrifice or the substitution?

Dad update: wouldn't stop listening to folk music on YouTube so my mom and I had to bully him into putting on a movie (pirates of the Caribbean)

Fuck it. Back to old school runescape

Vico -- "Verum ipsum factum" My late Grandpa Bill -- "Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story"

Rereading this. Nonstop bangers: "We no longer do anything but history, we no longer do anything but interpretation, we are no more than police detectives. Horror. We no longer do anything but seek out the guilty."

Having my dad read Sapolsky might have been a mistake. Now he's namedropping Dawkins and Dennett and watching Neil Degrasse Tyson's youtube channel. Next time I come home his ass is gonna be watching Rick and Morty

Back at my parents. I missed him so much........ The orange man........

We should be making more high schoolers read Medea

Wait. The House of Atreus are LYDIANS????

This weekend I heard a lot of anxiety about how to make our work more relevant to the public; and by extension how to secure our institutional funding. But nobody asked whether these goals might actually be opposed to each other

Was going to open my presentation today with this but I forgot

brb recreating the Von Dutch music video in the Hyatt lobby

Wearing my most flamboyant shirt, so nobody confuses me with the seminarians

1st time in Cali; I have only been here for about an hour but the vibes have been as chill as I was led to believe

Lfggggg

Assuming I don't just stay in my hotel room all night working on my papers, what's something fun to do in downtown San Diego?

minoru suzuki on weaknesses making strengths special

I hope my AAR panel doesn't mind that my paper does a 180 pivot from Bagehot to child sacrifice

After all, genocide is an act of community building.

I started watching Tower of God. Why is this show just Parkour Civilization

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I don't know how to say this without it sounding holier-than-thou -- obviously, I'm enthusiastically watching too -- but there's nothing like the shedding of blood to bring a community together

Not only am I working during Paul/Tyson, I'm the only person scheduled to close

I also want this but I'm convinced it will never happen not because Leto II is unfilmable but because his whole arc is thematically and conceptually dissonant with Villeneuve's interpretation of Paul

YOU HAVE BEEN EXILED FROM THE POLYCULE

Posting Will Resume

Have 2 leave behind this sweet dumb creature to go back to school 😭😥

Scared to go check if I made this same exact joke a year ago on twitter

babe I can't talk right now, I'm busy establishing Ma'at and annihilating Isfet

*this* is the guy I need to become more famous than. my old grad student profile from my MA program is result #12

found out that writing is a lot easier if i dont feel compelled to include the exact citation in the first draft. i can just go from my own memory and instincts and check my own argument later. it's kind of obvious now that i say it out loud but this is huge for me lmao

Bro this is literally the plot of Job wtf

from 'Gregory the Great', Moorhead 2005

Bible hot take: Elihu speech is part of the 'original' verse composition of the Book of Job; it's a metatextual commentary on the author's engagement with the Joban legend

Michel Serres: "Drugged, intoxicated with violence, [Rome] can’t escape the sacred. The eternal return is exactly the return of the sacred, the return of the forgotten, of the buried, the return to the light of the head with the intact face at the top of Capitoline Hill."

every political order has at least two prices: the price in lives, the human sacrifice that inaugurates it; and the price of liquidity which secures its continued existence

Everyone at Rite-Aid when “One Night in Bangkok” came on