Penny

The succession of philosophers is not an eternal sequence of sages, still less a historical sequence, but a broken succession, a succession of comets. Their discontinuity and repetition do not amount to the eternity of the sky which they cross, nor the historicity of the earth which they fly over.

Generally, it works both ways: no one wants to be my disciple any more than I wanted to have any. A “school” is awful for a very simple reason: a “school” takes a lot of time, one turns into an administrator. Consider philosophers who have their own “school”:

Penelope Haulotte Instructor at the University of New Mexico, Central New Mexico Community College.

I made a website: penelopehaulotte.com

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Well, I think societies like ours are structured around gender/sex roles, and transitioning is moving from one position to another. It is not a necessary feature of such systems that gender/sex position be assigned at birth

This is my view but I don’t think the “assigned at birth” bit is necessary. Trans experience is the experience of transitioning gender or sex. I think there is a dynamic to that which phenomenology can describe

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Preprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20...

1). Schelling on Trial: On Kirill Chepurin’s Bliss Against the World: Schelling, Theodicy, and the Crisis of Modernity (Oxford UP, 2025).

Review essay @benjaminnorris.bsky.social

I believe it is always my purpose to tell you as well: find yourself, if possible, find yourself in something that has not been created.

History, according to Foucault, circumscribes us and sets limits, it doesn't determine what we are, but what we're in the process of differing from; it doesn't fix our identity, but disperses it into our essential otherness. That's why Foucault deals with recent short historical series

The peer review process: 3 strangers yelling “more cowbell” at your life's work

anyone wanna read trans paper lol

lmao no I would never get hoisted like that, I mean it's my own freaking petard

Desire, or, it matters little, the unconscious: it is not imaginary or symbolic, it is uniquely machinic and as long as you have not reached the region of the machine of desire, as long as you remain in the imaginary, the structural or the symbolic, you do not have a genuine hold on the unconscious.

Instagram’s chatbot helped teen accounts plan suicide — and parents can’t disable it An investigation into the Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook found that it helped teen accounts plan suicide and self harm, promoted eating disorders and drug use, and regularly claimed...

"The Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, a new safety study finds. In one test chat, the bot planned joint suicide — and then kept bringing it back up in later ‭conversations."
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

No one wants this energy. The energy we want is the time someone asked Joe Biden how many genders there are and he said "at least three" and then told the person asking to fuck off

RFK Jr. is getting personal authority over who to kick off of Medicaid “It's just a way of cutting people off of coverage and then blaming them for it.”

It’s up to the discretion of RFK Jr to define what ”medically frail” is when it comes to potential Medicaid work requirement exemptions—which may play a huge role in deciding which chronically ill and disabled people could qualify. My latest for @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I dunno man maybe we should all talk about patriarchy more

Orange mountain range in foreground black behind and blue in distance

Rest your eyes with Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico by Georgia O'Keeffe, circa 2013.

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.

A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

Oh man, we told a bunch of people to focus on a particular job like coding and now there's less demand for that job and those people are out of work? Wild. Anyway, happy to announce my new center for training hundreds of PhDs in the philosophy of AI!

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.

“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

Art of sailor moon with the words 'my tummy hurts and I'm mad at the government'

morning mood

I’ve never seen a discipline as hostile to women and gender minorities as philosophy. DN is a cesspool, all the more odious because it was meant to be a viable alternative to a cesspool

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

Hunter on Musk and immigration.