Aileen 🪲

this is incredible

shouting into the void but this is a general PSA: just because you have a niche opinion that goes totally against the majority on a topic or if you're a "centrist" doesn't make you morally superior or smarter.
yeah i know superficial readings of Nietzsche have "told" you otherwise but get a grip omg

also ephemeral -> not fixed, temporary, transitory and anlways changing

posting this here bc i just thought of it suddenly and i don’t want to forget later but— ephemeral gaze = lines of flight/differenciation?
“the reason for my existence”
“the direction of my life”
“the end of my gaze is always you”

just realized that the third post won't look right if you're viewing on mobile:

Doing art badly is good and sacred

+ arriving at a co-mut(u)ability of planetary & local scales involves conversations between diff localizations in mutually influential & interpenetrating ways
+ how do we simultaneously uphold multiple scales of relationality?

planetary scales, epistemological (re)positioning, perspectival shifts:
can we reconcile untethered relative thinking w/ specificity?
+ politics of location warrants accounting for specificity to avoid tyranny, hegemony, totalization of epistemo-perspectival 'correctness'

these maps inform the way(s) a physical/virtual/conceptual territory is conceived & imagined
+ the misuse of mapping results from when maps remain fixed & unresponsive to situational localization
+ what about extra-localization?
+ can we have both particularity & connectedness/unilaterality at once?

|extra-local -->(beyond- /immediacy\ -within) <-- local|
~conceptual ~material
~abstract ~concrete
~continuous ~discrete

navigation as movement of inclination requiring markers of orientation (referential orientation)
relational navigation & perspectivism operate as so:

navigation as synthesis of local & extra-local relativity
-> mediation of intentionality w/ contingency of unknown/accidental events
--> desire precedes intentionality but can still be influenced by intentionality? (does desire necessarily cause/produce intentionality or is it vice versa?)

some unorganized-ish notes/reflections from my reading of patricia reed's 'orientation in a big world' (🧵):

thinking about stuff ... Deleuzo-Guattarian body without organs as production through antiproduction, heterogeneous interplay of deconstruction and construction ... hm

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1) Nietzsche
2) Music and Postmodernism
3) Horror of the Social
4) Intro to Buddhist Philosophy
5) Music, Language, and Cognition

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.

They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

every now n then i have to dissociate myself from kpop fandom culture for how allonormative it is

cuz genuinely?? if you're going to spend so much time and brainpower reading these difficult texts only to misconstrue and misapply them 😭 so dumb. ig for these ppl they only ever read this stuff to look 'super smart' as if that somehow validates their awful takes

if you're big on continental philosophy and critical theory but you're not a leftist/left adjacent then i'm embarrassed for you

as much as I dislike Plato's theory of Forms i feel obligated to return to IDEA's music video and piece it apart for references and appearances from the cave allegory, as well as other surrounding contextual dialogue from Republic book 7

tbh his career has always expressed a level of reserved faith toward post-structuralist thought so i like to think of IDEA as some random sort of interjection, but who am i to keep tabs on how taemin moves

it's so interesting to see taemin releasing a song that is strung around platonic metaphysics and the cave allegory (IDEA) only to basically do a total 180 and start flirting heavily with post-structuralist / post-platonic thinkers e.g. bataille