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‘All games mask other games. Because almost no game is ruled by its own rules alone. And no game pursues a clear, univocal and direct aim’

Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World

Anarchitecture is a process by which a closed structure is made open-ended. Where LLMs model language as closed flow of probabilistic signifiers, anarchitecture of language keeps open the scene of dissensus: a condition of politics and collective invention. Language is public use of incompleteness.

Well done, Francis 🫡

Rest in peace.

Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance: A Foucauldian Critique Original and interdisciplinary, this is the first book to explore the relationship between a neoliberal mode of governance and the so-called genetic revolution. Looking at the knowledge-power relatio...

The prophecy is still decipherable here: www.routledge.com/Human-Genes-...

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology - HAU Books A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, by André Leroi-Gourhan, edited by Nathan Schlanger, translated by Nils F. Schott. A selection of Leroi-Gourhan’s most important texts—many translat...

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott - Hau Books, February 2025 (open access)
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Reading Hegel Retrieves Hegelian speculative experience for literary theory. The relationship between Hegel and literary theory has for a long time been both contested and paradoxical. On the one hand, “theory” is ...

Robert Lucas Scott, Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, March 2025
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Nearing the end of this wonderful journey for the second time. Truly, a precious gem.

Time TV series with Sean Bean and Stephen Graham is a poignant masterpiece

Too tired to read, grabbed a beer, now alone as a fly. Did I miss my cherished tippler? Did I miss you? Did I throw the key to forget about this door?

Our new book "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social now has brilliant back cover blubs from N. Katherine Hayles and @djchuck.bsky.social

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The Capture TV series is a must-watch as timely as today’s march into AI. Season 2 is a thriller ‘hold my beer’ stunt!

That cheesy, laid-back vibes Motel California can give you while the world is burning.

On the sidereal, you’re keeping an eye for crypto news to sell.

Tells how much you have to endure the joke.

Watching your films felt like a journey through a talking cure, a go-to dream world evocative of Kafka.

RIP David Lynch.

Struggling with flu, pressing a synaptic lapse into a torpor I've never been in before, I thought of half of Gramsci’s line- the pessimism of the intellect- then a realization came up. I forgot the world had ended long ago.

Fantasy- what traverses the tricky path from worms to AI.

Thanks for the camaraderie, the undying flame of philia, which, to the Greeks, much more to the shaman ancestors of the human lot, is the true test of virtue—FRIENDSHIP, from which all ethics originate!

Happy New Year!

How we all wish to age gracefully.

Happy New Year!

To my friends then: You are a comet, you are a friend- you are an anagram of death stars codified in speech that only Plato knew could make a beautiful city.

is a clay still to be moulded, a phusis in need of love, care, a conversation, a speech, a poem, a beer, a coffee, a pound of flesh that carries all of heaven’s secrets.

We die in every heartbeat, every glimmer of hope after listening to a friend, hope that you will die like a comet at a moment’s notice, or the bidding of a cosmos. With all the grief and regrets that one day decided to precede you, all that remains, you assure yourself,

How to become a comet—that’s what draws us to enjoy, with all its ironies, the glorious passing of a year now drawing to a close. We enjoy it by leaving a trail of light shared with families and friends- a comet isn’t a phusis, but a crafting, a teche, a poiesis, a mode of dying.

first ageing, then that sudden outbursts of light until that one last dash to become an eternal stone- a comet whose light in the sky catches only the eyes of the living.

to breathe through his mind, to embrace the infinite. But there he forgot it - he became eternal, he died many times over; every second, his mind sped through the velocity of time, as fast as the light could go, at the seams unmindful of the complement of its speed-

Kierkegaard once said that it is only in existence that one can become eternal. What he quite ignored is that to become eternal is to decide on existence. Not that he was ignorant of it, but he certainly made a decision, which he doubled back on, by struggling to think,

Amid the long break and the jubilant mood of the season, it’s the little things that caught you off guard. Never have you felt so alone, brooding, and aching to grab a book.

Not a cat person, but enjoying this animated film so far.

A syllogism of regrets:
Some days are moons.
Some moons are days.
For dreaming too much,
they suffered a middle.

YouTube video by skeudotheque 4. Toe - I Dance alone

What Jazz should look like

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The other of the Other doesn’t exist, but this de-othering of the other already makes the other signifiable.

What a juju. What magic! What disparate!