Commissioning Editor @Jacobin • Author Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute • Philosophy Lecturer • Executive @vic_socialists & @socialists_aus
Brunswick, Melbourne
- Tweets 11,112
- Following 4,180
- Followers 4,833
- Likes 17,313
Pinned Tweet
My essay "The True Infinite and the Republic of Virtue" is out in the new double edition of Salvage!
I first drafted the piece three years ago, and although it took a while to find a home, I'm delighted that @salvagedotzone liked it — I can't think of a better venue for it.
2
2
36
10,349
It makes sense, when you think about it in a Max Weber way, that the culture of American socialists today would unknowingly reproduce the cultures of 16th and 17th century English Protestantism — among other things ofc.
4
8
559
The next American Civil War will be Parliamentarians against Royalists, the former accusing the latter of decadent Roman Catholic loyalties. Long live the Green New Model Army!
2
2
118
Yeah look im still trying for a fkn mulloway but on the plus side, I just knocked over 8k words of an academic article in one night and u can’t bullshit me that the long nights on quest for a fish weren’t training. Anyway brb, abt get some sleep and go for a fish lol
💪🐟🫦🐟🤌
2
8
709
I’d like to acknowledge dexamphetamine for delivering golden-winged words to my brain, thx O Hermes, radiant messenger of the gods
1
208
Ppl are treating it like a meme but Adorno is just right, and he made clear arguments for each of the three cases.
- King Gizz is bourgeois
- Courtney Barnett is liberal
- Pond is communist
People are treating it like a meme but Adorno is just right, and he made clear arguments for each of the three cases.
- Odysseus prefigures the bourgeois individual through rational calculation, self-preservation and mastery over nature
- Jazz embodies the liberal promise of individual freedom within standardized (musical and economical) structures
- Mozart gives an aesthetic form to the utopian reconciliation of individuals beyond domination & the contradictions of early bourgeois society
1
1
23
1,514
When you go to a meeting of leftists and someone starts talking about "care," scan the room for expressions. Cos everyone who doesn't look as though they've just heard about a friend's missing cat is a potential vote against whatever moralistic bullshit is about to get proposed.
i've pretty much always disliked the use of the term "care" in left-wing popular or academic rhetoric. it sounds like Heidegger or like hippies or Christians using the word "love." it's not useless for thinking about our relationships w/ others, but it's subpolitical.
3
74
7,192
Daniel Lopez retweeted
In this November's state election we're fielding candidates across all 88 of Victoria's lower house seats and all 8 upper house regions. It's a historic campaign, and we want you to get involved! Links below.
17
42
186
11,309
Daniel Lopez retweeted
Origen of Alexandria likewise believed that stars are angels who freely chose to descend so as to illuminate the corporeal world, and that the most fiery spirits of human intellect would ascend to become like angels, with a brilliance analogous to these star-angels.
See On First Principles, 1.7; Against Celsus, bk. 5; Philocalia, 23. Cf. Alan Scott, Origen and the Life of the Stars, OUP, 1994 (linked below).
global.oup.com/academic/prod…
Although this belief in star-angels was condemned at the AD 543 Synod of Constantinople and AD 553 Second Council of Constantinople, part of it survived in the belief - affirmed by Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, and John Henry Newman - that angels are the cybernetic steersman or 'celestial movers' of stars.
Through the influence of Maximus the Confessor on Nikolai Fedorov, this latter belief in cybernetic-angel star-steering was speculatively rehabilitated by Teilhard de Chardin, whose Noosphere of pneumatic-technical evolution implies that future super-intelligences will computationally assemble all matter and energy in the universe, including that of stars.
The eschatology of Teilhard's cosmic-evolutionary Christogenesis here converges with the protology of Origen to show, in Nick Land's [@xenocosmography] words, how "low IQ" spiritual intelligences will decorate the firmament as living stars.
For more on Origen's angelology, see my article 'Origen's Speculative Angelology'.
philarchive.org/rec/HAEOSA
For more on Teilhardism, see my article 'Jesuit Cybernetics', forthcoming in Yuk Hui's [@digital_objects] edited volume 'Cybernetics in the 21st Century, Vol. 2'.
digitalmilieu.net/cybernetic…
Every star you see glittering in the sky is a potential hyperintelligence being wasted on low IQ cosmic decoration (but it's going to be okay).
4
9
51
3,581
Daniel Lopez retweeted
the australian greens not posting about Dolly Parton is problematic
1
1
72
1,370
Marx on Socrates (qua Hegel's Phenomenology):
"Socrates is the substantial exemplar of substance losing itself in the subject. He is therefore just as much a substantial individual as the earlier philosophers, but after the manner of subjectivity ..."
2
7
687
"Not of the people, this subjectivity, confronting the substantial powers of the people, is yet of the people, that is, it confronts reality externally, is in practice entangled in it, and its existence is in motion. These mobile vessels of development are the Sophists. ..."
1
1
397
