I Am Toward You | How To Dress Well | PhD (the problem of nihilism and the prospect of non-nihilistic metaphysics in jacobi and hegel) | friend to the undertow
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1 May 2024
“Contingency/Necessity (Modality of Fate)” OUT NOW!!!
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“Doing 😵💫😵💫😵💫 in the shrine room at the Buddhist monastery,
I wonder if I’ve ever made a single right decision.”
I Am Toward You in 9 days 🫀
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May 10
Two years of I Am Toward You
Thank you so much to everyone who listens
Releasing a very special song next month to commemorate
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it is often helpful to clock when things become cyclical or circular, or where meaning loops back around on itself in productive ways. there are lots of names for this with different specificities. epanalepsis. chiasmus. i feel myself inside a really significant and exciting loop right now.
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this framing -- reality (=100%), representation (=tiny fraction) -- is metaphysically wrong --- signs are conditions under which anything like “reality” becomes determinable, differentiable, sayable at all. if you start here, the underdetermination problem becomes MUCH more interesting.
Apr 27
Symbolic language representations capture (generously) 0.0000000001% of fundamental reality.
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the cool thing about poetry is that it fundamentally resists scanning, which is also why it will perish
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philosophers have to admit, even if they're suspicious of/pessimistic about AI, that the prospect of a new, super powered model simply called *mythos* unleashing a fatal clarity on the world, an alethic catastrophe, a total collapse of veiling, etc. --- that's really something, almost hilarious.
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Unfreedom for Hegel means a separation between ‘is’ and ‘ought’ (the will). This is the opposite of Fate, in which ‘is’ and ‘ought’ are one. Fate is the actual movement of freedom, so Hegel says it is closer to the truth of freedom than modern ideas of arbitrary choice. (EL §147)
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ah damn looks like i'm gonna have to write an essay on schulman and why everything sucks now....
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Feb 24
damn RIP ER....
Farewell to French composer Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonate—slowly, endlessly—like a tone that never quite fades.
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God is good
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Jan 23
a new FALSE WORLD blog post where i talk about "attention is the natural prayer of the soul" and a playlist too
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"This is the most interesting thing to me: that which is the most essential act of the human, the natural prayer of our souls, is something which doesn’t simply endure in us regardless of circumstances. it’s something which is only ultimately revealed at the right material moment, when historical forces align to protect and fortify the possibility of its appearance. The natural prayer of the human soul goes undetectable under historical conditions where its preconditions are not met or are intentionally blocked. What is metaphysically first, isn’t necessarily factically first. This is one of the key insights of Hegelianism (and Heideggerianism too): essence must appear, and if the conditions of its appearance aren’t met, it won’t. This means, for instance, that we could find ourselves living out a historical moment of total eclipse, with the spiritual daylight darkened to brutal night. This is what I mean when I say: we live in the false world."
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