Jack Bernardi

Blumenberg denies the autism allegations

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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Slavery and Unfreedom
When is Capitalism?
Philosophy: Friend or Foe?

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Domestication Syndrome
Anti-Kant

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Prehistory of Islam
Childhood

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

(@irvingwestphd.bsky.social)

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????

You can talk about evil as much as you like, so long as that evil remains in the past [or, at least, an atavism], so we can maintain the illusion that it is no longer present

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

Like an amphibian, I am using bright colors to signal that I am venomous

Success!! I have yet to enter a room where I am not wearing the Fruitiest outfit