becoming-ghost

absolute insanity.

affective crepuscularity

It feels humiliating and hopeless to keep having to justify philosophy and the humanities generally to administrators.

Kind of intolerable to constantly be in the position of having to defend the worth of things whose worth is self-evident to oneself.

Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening:
"I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."

Health officials from Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania met this week to consider coordinating their own vaccine recommendations, separate from the federal government.

Good.

oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing

ok ok, a downeast fisherman who hates the oligarchy and wants universal healthcare.

I'M LISTENING???

Stop rolling out the welcome mat for fascists by pretending that refusal is beyond human capacities. It isn’t.

It’s just hard and costly so we would have to do it together

people should stop pretending that because there are consequences for resisting it is impossible.

Federal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this country Trump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.

New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.

thanks to everyone sharing and contributing!

thousands of individual visitors this afternoon already suggests how much we need to work together, carry one another, take heart in solidarity. and the students want more too.

AGAINST AI

against-a-i.com

Pretty soon science will realize that time and space are just different ways of expressing the same thing. They’re very close now.

Spinozism is inevitable.

the jet lag is monstrous. the jet lag has teeth. i am not well!

and if you’re not putting carrots in your bolognese !!

Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits, Qui Parle (2025) This essay explores two key concepts in the work of Karl Marx and argues for their essential interconnection: species-being and natural limits. The first section provides a general account of the idea...

My paper, “Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits” is now out in Qui Parle

who else out here constantly varying the ratio of peanut butter to jelly on their little sandos ??

‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward the singularity, or like, living on mars in a bunker or something’

AI just is a theodicy at this point

what Mbembe says about Marx in the necropolitics essay is kind of wild, yeah ?

a profound moment from Deleuze’s lectures on Spinoza

so the next step in the playbook seems to be: iranian sleeper cells are in every major city in the US, just waiting to be activated.

more nonsensical, preemptive justification for the detainment, harassment, and deportation of basically whomever this regime wants to target.

This is an unjust, unprovoked war of aggression.

TL;DR version is Chuck Schumer is experiencing FOMO.

fucking ghouls.

anyone policing protestor behavior over the next few weeks is your fucking enemy

jesus fucking christ