Famously, science is uninterested in the scientific method.

okay maybe this mind trick will work - am writing to a spirited colleague whose style i loved

no style? no fluency? am only a human trying to figure things out.

i just need to finish this bec i have a pile of peer reviews before the next round of essay marking starts in the age of AI which will destroy my joy of life in may

i so enjoy academic writings that have a certain style, but now weeks into excruciatingly slow writing, i've reached the point of abandoning any aspiration to it

Hating Theory Today Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...

"The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, it has taken on a new importance..." @moiraweigel.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/OCTO...

Jump from Old Testament to round about 1981

My fav sentence so far of this chapter; writing is excruciatingly slow: "Fast-forward to more recent times, no such existential crisis of a people and loss of territory prevailed from mid-1970s to early 1980s in the US, the period when prophetic examples became more prominent in American patent law"

my eyesight has gone so bad... momentary panic bec i wasn't sure if i sent the text to the right person

The 13th issue of Socrates on the Beach is up. Thank you to the writers and translators. socratesonthebeach.com

The problems of the 2020s are different from those of the 1980s and 1990s, or indeed the 1930s or 1900s, and so should our problematizations be too."

Penned by my stellar EB colleagues:

"We suggest that now is a useful moment in which to think again, to bring ‘the state’ back into view and examine the tools that are available to make sense of the present.
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H.D. would be absolutely freaking out about this

Pretty insane find

100%. always been like this though, esp re racism, i feel

the other thing i'm finding out too late is it's better to start out with scrivener rather than trying to import a different file format into it later. scrivener doesn't seem to import footnotes from docs or rtfs ahhhhhh

i think a good length for keeping an overview of a piece of writing is 6k. any word over, and it's endless scroll and looking for loose threads.

i could not bear the knausgaard at one point anymore. wonder if lerner will have the same effect on me.

yeah i was even stuck with the window seat, he was sitting aisle

mix of anti-academia bec of some rejections, mysogyny, sexism and racism bec of probably same reasons ... healthy...

he kept asking: you are really a professor? me, thinking wow this guy is so weird, get me out of the plane

an odd mix of arrogance, insecurity and complexes, and naivety.
am happy to chat with anyone when i think someone is interesting but lesson learned was: maybe not good on flights longer than 1.5 hours max.

remembering the istanbul-london flight: neighbour turns out to be a secretive dealer of ancient scripts; had a beef with the vatican, who he thought were snobs; procured for the kochs; vibe was so weird, i was a bit freaked out being stuck on the flight; i wonder if he is now MAGA anti-pope

Yeah we must have missed something something … like the transmigration of intelligence to deeply capitalistically flattened people incapable of empathy and now sold as units

only orozco‘s birth to dead knowledge brings me life in this institution

Amazing picture

Hence the giant mass human cognitive deskilling and stupefaction machine so they can make money off it

Such different times

🥲

The present state is so demoralising for the students who want to learn but see the students who use AI doing better than them