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the most feminine thing you can be is violent

the point of the linguistic turn is not that there is no non-discursive reality, & it is more disturbing than the claim that language cannot get a definitive grip on non-discursive reality: it is that language is a part of the non-discursive reality on which it cannot get a grip

It’s funny that Deleuze’s readings of the Stoics, Spinoza, and Nietzsche are often considered “radical” when, it seems to me, he’s actually just reading what they wrote in all its paradoxical complexity rather than reducing them to doctrines conforming to conventional categories.

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Baudrillard's one idea is not what I thought it was when I read him as an undergraduate (reality has disappeared): it's that social reality is constituted through symbolic exchange, which is always asymmetrical but in principle reversible, but today reversibility has stalled.

What is it about blood ties that keep us in an endless cycle of trying to deal with people who, were we to just meet them for the first time socially we never would seriously consider them as potential friends? Yet we'll tie ourselves in knots keeping some form of relationship

my current favorite necklace stack for spring (if i don’t wear at least 3 necklaces at once i shrivel up and die) more eyeball hearts coming soon🫀

I went to an academic environmental humanities conference once that turned out to be fully woo woo new materialist and when the key note speaker argued that rocks have agency, someone in the audience wooed

Unfortunately anyone who’s made any progress in western philosophy in the past two centuries has done so by coming to the same conclusions that Zhuangzi did 2300 years ago

May day

Even if philosophy were useless, I don't regret wasting my life doing it. I'd do it all over again. The sun is setting.

If your poem doesn’t feel poetic enough, add the word "blood" somewhere. Works every time.

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"......counternarratives matter. Our politics that works to create other worlds matters! You are right to feel threatened." ~ Prof Nivedita Menon

for people addicted to self-help books, I prescribe that you read one poem every day and recite it until you have it memorized. you people need an infusion of beauty, not more neurosis

really in all honesty though i’m gonna be an analytic philosopher but in a continental way

There's a kind of philosopher whose only move is to change the subject

A nationwide anti-war movement is the need of the hour. Left parties, progressive and democratic forces should step up.

good therapy is like an emotional vomit, really really ugly and you are expected to clean it up, your therapist just giving you a mop and timeline maybe

DONE WITH COLLEGE at 10:10pm 5/7 and nobody prepared me for the silence inside my heart rn