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I suppose it depends how we define sentiment(al). To me there's a strong crossover between sentimentality and nostalgia that would make it incompatible with the creative forces needed to invent the future.
'Futuring' can absolutely be sentimental, but it shouldn't be. Creating the future should be an active process without being bogged down in sentimentality. Anti-hauntology rather than hauntology etc.
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Really interesting article by Hui: 'I would argue that the profound importance of digital technology is entirely different than the apocalyptic reduction of everything to calculation, under the banner of computationalism, transhumanism, or “post-humanism.”' www.e-flux.com/journal/161/...
"One is left to wonder if his rebirth is even possible when he has time and time again rejected it ... It’s so bleak and yet, it is so hopeful. ... Schoenbrun insists that there is still time. There is always time. And you have to live before it’s too late" bluelabyrinths.com/2024/09/23/t...
Still extremely bizarre to me that we're getting New Yorker articles about Land attending AI leader tech events in San Francisco mansions. Bizarre but not surprising given the state of the world currently... www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
"His success has helped shift philosophical publishing away from the established model of weighty, complex monographs dense with specialized vocabulary, and toward shorter, essayistic volumes designed for rapid circulation." - I guess the questioni is do we think this is a good or bad thing?
Really interesting article from Alex Taek-Gwang Lee. I've not heard of Han being described as left-wing Sloterdijk but the critcism of his writing as something that 'circulates smoothly in the same attention economy it condemns' is quite spot on. www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...
A new article by Dr. Shivdeep Grewal, author of 'Hambermas and European Integration' (2019), on Shoshana Zuboff's connection to Habermas's 'lifeworld' and the question of dystopia in literature and film. bluelabyrinths.com/2026/02/06/z...
"For a long time I knew nothing other than a chaotic euphoria. After only a few years, I felt the chaos gradually to become suffocating. I was broken, undone, from having laughed too much..." bluelabyrinths.com/2022/08/26/a...
"Weird fictions, with their attention to beyond-beneath forces, to things which remain un-written but which still affect us in inscrutable ways, don’t just metaphorise neoliberalism: they also provide avenues to decode it." bluelabyrinths.com/2024/01/30/w...
"Follow the bugs after the end of the world. Noclip into another map. The critical race to whatever is after the end. That is the fascination of the closed system against the allure of the open system." bluelabyrinths.com/2024/03/14/s...
Love this book: Sloterdijk is such an intriguing philosopher. A fascinating study of cynicism as the dominant psychopolitical mode in late 20th century Western culture (published in 1981).
"Within that circuit, which appears across global space as a maze, capital and surplus populations are trapped in a relation of non-identity. The task of politics is to sever this chain – to exit the maze." bluelabyrinths.com/2020/11/10/t...
"This aspect of Deleuze’s interpretation of Bergson serves the cornerstone to much of his later philosophy. We must always remember that without Bergson, there would be no Deleuze."
bluelabyrinths.com/2020/04/22/v...
Didn't actually know she died so young. What a shame. I enjoyed her book when I read it years back.
"The internet today is a weird combination of platform dependency and state surveillance. All of this creates a feeling that there is no exit and we do not know where to go. In the meantime, we have all been stuck on the platform." bluelabyrinths.com/2023/01/02/t...
"Borges represented more than just an inspiration that reached across national boundaries; he represented the creation of a new language of literature." bluelabyrinths.com/2022/09/11/b...
"Taylor Swift knows that capitalism is all about the simulation of value. As Achim Szepanski argues in his article ... Taylor Swift is the sign of capital itself: there is nothing beside her love songs except more information to consume" bluelabyrinths.com/2025/10/03/t...
excellent:
Gilbert Simondon and the Process of Individuation
by Matt Bluemink
epochemagazine.org/34/gilbert-s...
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By: Milan Kroulik on Friday, January 30, 2026
"Confronted with the reality of its own end, [Western reason] tries to buy time by turning this reality into a possibility that points to a future realization, to an atomic war that reason can still avert." bluelabyrinths.com/2023/01/16/g...
"The landscape in 'The Florida Project' is a space where power has turned its back on its inhabitants: it has grown, thriving, beyond the need of its own failed capitalist purpose." bluelabyrinths.com/2023/10/02/t...
"To Deleuze, Stoicism was a philosophy that emphasised the importance of life. 'A life' is made up of intensive moments and events, but it can never be separated from the immanence of nature itself." bluelabyrinths.com/2020/10/25/g...