Ben Brewer

Interesting! If I’m not mistaken, the English translation of the Bultmann-Heidegger correspondence should be out very soon, so this is great timing too

Also Benjamin and Derrida have the same birthday. I should organize a philosophy trivia night or something.

Today in 1889, Martin Heidegger was born.

Today in 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide.

Second Thursday in a row of teaching two classes, guest teaching a grad seminar, and then attending a guest lecture right after, and I feel insane. Not only bc I’m so tired but also bc I realize that secondary teachers do this much teaching day in and day out?? Fucking how?!?!

Worse news: there are uncountably many undecidable problems. Computers have been a scam this whole time

This is what I picture when some of y’all talk about Deleuze & Guattari

In the 1978 film The Candiate, where Redford plays a politician, you can see the full spectrum of tailoring language. Dark worsted suits, esp in pinstripes, call for neckwear. More casual jackets, such as tweed sport coats, can be worn with casual turtlenecks and chambray shirts.

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sigmund fr.
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Ich, jedes mal beim Babysitting

To be clear, I’m not saying this song redeems the word “pollo” but surely “polla” is worse lol

YouTube video by Ramses Hatem A Las Chicas de Verdad Nos Gusta el Pollo Frito (Oda al Pollo)

Okay it’s true, pollo is not the most elegant word, HOWEVER, may I present as counterpoint: youtu.be/7x-Y0yvRwpc?...

Still thinking about this

nietzche would be so owned if someone considered the genealogy of his ideas and what purpose they served for him rather than just taking them at face value

I don’t love his tone but I get where he’s coming from

Georgia peaches, man…some things really do live up to the hype

A photo of some tan field jackets and tweed sport coats hanging in a row. The tweed jackets are checked and come in a variety of earthy colors.

Cormac McCarthy's tweed jackets. Very good taste in fabrics.

My old, enfeebled body and rapidly senescing mind are absolutely reeling from 5 days of only getting 6.5 hours of sleep and socializing every day. I was not built to survive such grueling conditions

Honestly they got our asses with this one

The philosophy experience

Rewatched Eddington again last night. Fucking masterpiece.

Sold a blazer today for 500 that I bought for 150 five years ago…I am king of business

I of course don’t think sciences flourished or anything—the Germans were flabbergasted to learn how much they’d been left in the dust when they found out at farm hall that the bomb had been dropped. Heisenberg thought they were ahead and were being detained to be debriefed about their research

I bring it up not just to be a history pedant but because I think the brain drain story taken on its own can feed into a kind of pre-established harmony idea about science and morality. Plenty of very smart scientists were either fellow travelers or happy enough to go along to get along!

Like Heisenberg and Weizsäcker and some other important physicists did stay and worked on the Uran-Projekt, but Germany just absolutely did not have the resources to allocate like the US did (cf Adam Tooze etc).

I think this is basically right, and I don’t know anything about any of the sciences other than the stuff around the development of atomic energy, but it’s worth noting, I think, that the question of resource availability and allocation of resources to scientific research is the other key factor

TL cleanse

If you are one of those people that posts the names of random brands in your eBay listings, I hope you have a terrible week. Fucking up my eBay saved searches, who even raised you??

will stancil is talking about searle's chinese room