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i’ve neglected bluesky

i haven't seen anyone else complain about limits nor any mention that they've been lifted, but i assume its 'fine' now ??

yea it’s a thing about technique, mostly, which lots of art-lovers who don’t make art are not versed in.

one of the secrets of the art world is that artists tend to make art only other artists could like, which is why everyone else thinks they suck

maybe i’ll do some terribly clever conceptual art and use my ipad as a canvas

i’m good at drawing but suck at procreate, there’s something about not being able to feel the weight and pressure of the tool

I don’t know how correlationism, for ex, captured so many peoples minds since it’s the basic problem of post-Kantian thought. But it coincided nicely with theory-fiction’s attempt to fantasise about the ‘Outside’ without trying to resolve the Kantian problem

As *books* they are caught between wanting to do theory-fiction (in the broadest sense) and scholarly exegesis which is a hard thing to juggle. And in terms of SR I find those problematics to be quaint and dated

The older Zer0 Books are impossible to read now, especially when they overlapped with the speculative realist movement

i couldn’t tell if it was a joke bc i actually like the guy

It’s a guilty pleasure for sure

it’s too close to friendly fire at this time

you should read husserl, i think you’ll like him

Grant called Laruelle a neo-Platonist. Get his ass @en-demic.bsky.social

Brassier suggests thinking the absolute is properly irreligious insofar as it not limited by the classical theological difference between the finite and the infinite. “The pathos of finitude is the worst kind of religious mystification”

Armen Avanessian & Enemies #51: Ray Brassier & Iain Grant Myth or History, Nature or Reason? Karikaturen von Schelling und Hegel gibt es im Überfluss: der romantische Naturphilosoph gegen den bürokratischen Rationalisten; die Kraft des Mythos gegen d...

Now listening to this conversation between Grant and Ray Brassier who, in their hilariously different characters, begin by talking about the stigmatisation yet inescapability of thinking the Absolute. https://youtu.be/YSPot3c-zOg

Just listened to this pretty wild talk by Iain Hamilton Grant on how modern thought, premised on the space of reasons, enacts a ‘physiocide’, the murder of nature.
https://youtu.be/IyGh1ZXnXpE

Natürphilosophie is based; philosophy of nature is cringe

Schelling’s Essence of Human Freedom is dense as fuck. Like bro take a breather

A note on Schelling’s God

mourning posts

Since it’s likely that Bluesky (unlike Mastodon or whatever) will relatively succeed whether or not Twitter fails. But I think it’s likely we won’t see the absolute end of Twitter. Left in limbo only talking about being in limbo!

The worse outcome is to be left with two equally moderate and boring social media accounts which would take twice the effort and half the reward to maintain.

bsky is still stamped with the birthmarks of the old twitter from whose womb it emerges

You might be interested in reading the end of Beiser’s book on German Idealism (which ends with Schelling, not Hegel), since he also presents the either/or as between the divination of Humanity or the Absolute coming to know itself. But in both cases the particularity of humanity is abolished

Also I feel my reading of Nietzsche has been useful for understanding (some of) Schelling

The Schelling-Hegel combo is super powerful. Glad I started reading him

gonna pretend back home (twitter) we’re having so much fun over here

there is a truth within the untruth of the philosophers of ‘excess’ who hold tight to the thought that there is more to life than—thought!

The tragedy of the situation is that you are, at least initially, trapped within the space of reasons and cannot explicate what is beyond conceptual explicability without heeding to the use of concepts! (incomes that mysterious ‘intuition’ to solve this problem)