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Untitled and from the same world as this story *** The wars had broken out and things were starting to look bleak. Back then, of course, we underestimated the extent of the eventual damage. Henry was among the first drafted. I don’t think he agreed with it, but he wouldn’t have dodged. He swore he… Continue reading Untitled

Tangents

Tangents to my research: 1) intuition as Stieglerian savoir-faire; 2) knowledge conditions restructuring themselves to support the data economy; 3) psychedelics as the permanent exception; the psychedelic mind as the sovereign or the philosopher-king. Schmitt and Plato. Writing names like Everina Teopisca and Clarabel Yarrow in drunk penmanship. Making Everina and Clarabel live what I… Continue reading Tangents

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June 3 2015 Nuclear war has devastated the city. It’s burned the fat out of my mind. Nobody knows how to make money anymore and the kids on the outskirts imagine themselves as parents long before their own parents tell them where babies come from. I want to make my replacement too. I don’t want… Continue reading Untitled

Death is Stupid

8/18/22 I still admire those who make contact with the world but can’t explain their methods. Call it flux movements or soap bubble shimmers. Nabokov described a crystal go-between that separates wolves in tall grasses from wolves in tall stories. He said prismatism is the art of literature. It’s also one of philosophy’s sweeter faces,… Continue reading Death is Stupid

08/14/22

I’ve been traveling. From the beginning of the month, in order: Philadelphia; Brooklyn; Lewes, DE; back to Brooklyn; Fairlawn, VA (where I was stranded for an extra 36 hours due to a flat tire;) Lafayette, IN; Chicago; Columbus, OH, where I am now for Psychedemia. I’ll be presenting this afternoon: “Acid Communism and Psychedelic Science… Continue reading 08/14/22

the data-image

This was my presentation for SPT2021, the biennial meetings of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. See here for the abstract; note that the talk doesn’t follow the particular sequence of ideas in the same order. A few things I didn’t mention in the talk: first, the data-image effectively reverses the theory of thought Deleuze lays out… Continue reading the data-image

grieving

Capitalism has produced a class of people rich enough to avoid domestic commitments. I get it. To accept others as family is to shack up with death. The day I got engaged I fixated on one of us burying the other. That’s why today’s elite prefer the primordial monotony of Mars over familiar but perpetually… Continue reading grieving

acid communism as radical realism

A lot of thoughts about acid communism and not a lot of time to write. I like this essay: Left-Wing Hypomania. It’s about the bloodlessness of optimism at the second end of history, AKA the post-Trump era. (Both terms are lies). “From uncertain celebration to fluctuating fixation, it is our inner depressive realists, our exhaustive selves,… Continue reading acid communism as radical realism