Tag: Academic
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Pacts With Demons.
After a year and a half, give or take, it’s finally here. A year and one day ago I published “Is the internet dead? Are we?” as one of the first real posts on this blog. In the year or so of intervening time I’ve been refining and reworking that idea into a real argument,…
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Intestinal Catastrophism
When the drugs that made you sick are the drugs that make you better You, or someone you know probably has problems with their digestive tract. Not to get too personal about it (we’re friends, right?), but pretty much everyone these days either has GERD, IBS, bloating or some other combination of symptoms that is…
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May chaos take the world!
Deleuze, Guattari and Elden Ring I don’t think it’s unfair to say that Fromsoftware are on a generational run of form currently. The Dark Souls series was an incredible triumph of vision, that was hugely successful despite its “difficult” mechanics and labyrinthine story. Bloodborne topped all of those, and to me is the best game…
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Diagnosing Lore-Brain
I’m sorry, its terminal We live in an era of massive self referentiality, of things looping back on themselves over and over and over. This is, to my mind, destabilizing and upsetting in a way most people aren’t totally equipped to think about or explain. There is a sense of an ever-closing wall of possible…
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Review of Prometheus’s Remorse by Peter Sloterdijk
Prometheus’s Remorse: From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson (Semiotext by Peter Sloterdijk My rating: 1 of 5 stars I was about halfway into the book when I realized Sloterdijk is kind of a hack. His main thesis is basically Marxism, with a focus on fire as a metaphor. From this he tries to…
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AI and Eugenics
A quick shoutout to an excellent article I read recently Published today in Volume 29 of First Monday, Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres have written what I think is one of the interesting and well timed articles of the year. In their article, The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial…