I was shaking my head about this sort of thing a couple months ago and a friend said: “you have to understand, freedom is straight-coded” and I basically haven’t stopped thinking about that ever since

The most utopian thing is imagining that artists of this caliber have anything left over to be encountered in real life. The put it all in the work! the rest is dross, that’s the point

This needs to be played on a loop wherever she shows up for the rest of her life.

Multiple Chicago schools went on lockdown today because of ICE, including my son’s and the one I’m on the council of. Spent the last two hours standing outside, trying to make sure nothing happens to these kids. This is horrible.

More like: pick up Cicero and you’ll feel like you’re reading a newspaper from 1920 amirite

This but unironically

Age of Innocence tho

Geist really do be trolling Hegel from time to time

“Elizabeth Schambelan is a fucking genius” -Gary Indiana

George Henry Lewes, life partner of George Eliot, has a very good summary critique of Bacon’s ostensible novelty vis a vis Aristotle’s logic; Bacon indisputably important, but any greatness is regional

Regimes of power/knowledge are just modes of representation which are as material as modes of production, just in a different way. Foucault is too imprecise for my taste but he is not the anti-materialist some comrades take him for

Gaston Bachelard, The New Scientific Spirit, 1934