There's a style of writing I often see in lit mags that is like, well-written and publishable and 'worldly' but also feels like it could've been written by anyone, and I wonder if this kind of writing actually has an eager audience or if it's just getting published into the void.

First image of a tardigrade (1773). Also known as water bears or moss piglets, they're around 1mm in length, and can survive extreme temperatures, pressures, radiation, and reanimate after long periods without oxygen. And even handle outer space: publicdomainreview.org/collection/tar…

At the end of the day the people who govern and the people who educate have no idea what they are doing. It doesn’t stop them from doing it.

are u going to win the super bowl this season

"pity invitations" "texting etiquette" "aura points"

Prepare for an 880 ratings surge.

A psychic sequel to “Tangled Up In Blue”, Bob Dylan’s “Mississippi” recasts the itinerant ten thousand mile stare of his earlier song as a kind of spiritual cleansing by ordeal. You don't live on the road for money and adventure. You live on the road because nowhere is your home.

in fairness, we do have a nation that is dying

Thought this was a picture of Derrida for a split second

How did you get this idea and execute it so quickly

The French newspaper Libération announced Jacques Lacan’s death in 1981 with this excellent pun, of which he would have approved: TOUT FOU LACAN ‘Tout fou’ means totally mad. ‘Tout fout le camp (pronounced ‘Lacan’) means get the hell out of here, but it is also ...

Selling books at an event today, going for “upstate NY Bob Dylan after the motorcycle crash”

Something I simply cannot wrap my mind around is why smart people—not to say “intellectuals,” cause who cares—feel the need to be barometers of a presumed public. Just say and write what is critically true to the best of your abilities.

One thing I find astounding is how much Anglophone Kant scholarship simply does not cite any of the 200+ years of German language scholarship on Kant. Shouldn't people at least be pretending to have read anything before Strawson???