Sex and the City meme, "And I couldn't help but wonder who assigned so many things to grade?"

When Kant said that being is that which is posited, he probably provided the starting point for the positive philosophy of Schelling and for what we might call the higher empiricism. There is a transcendental empiricism (the empiricism of Schelling) that seeks to show the conditions, let us not say of the possibility, but of the reality of experience. There is the radical empiricism of James, which welcomes the relations as well as the terms. There is even the possibility of a realism of essences like that of Moore, Russell, Husserl, and Santayana. There is, as in the Bergsonian and Schelerian philosophies, an affective realism. Transcendental, radical, non-intellectual ... this empiricism would be very different from that of the textbooks. It would allow us to unite tendencies of philosophers as different as Pascal, Schelling, and Hume, Scheler, Boutroux, and Russell, Bergson, Nietzsche, and Rauh, Whitehead, and Heidegger.

Jean Wahl, laying out the project of transcendental empiricism in 1944: "the higher empiricism ... that seeks to show the conditions, let us not say the possibility, but of the reality of experience".

Absolutely right that because the criticism of style is so often bad faith and trying to eliminate all of CP, we end up defending a lot of stuff that is not worth defending.

Gotta remember to read this one.

I say this, unironically, this is why we need medievalists.

It’s so devastating that Derrida waits till 1991, 7 years after Foucault’s death, to respond.

William Gibson has never been more relatable!

Just @ me next time.

I need you to stop everything in your life and write this one.
Pretty please? 🙏

Before I wrote this last year I knew a lot about the horrors of dairy but didn't truly know what it means to be a herd animal. We think humans are intensely social, but cows are another level entirely

I think it's pretty much impossible to do dairy farming humanely, but the way we do it seems 1/

What works did you teach about hope?

So much this!

Have you thought about painting the edges?!

And you know, a pretty good book, too

Such cool artwork.

The secretive dog experimentation industry is crumbling The US experiments on tens of thousands of beagles. After a shocking case, will it come to an end?

Some really big news dropped in animal rights world last week that was made possible only by extremely competent activism—a top breeder of dogs for lab experimentation will shut down. So I wrote about it and what it means and says about science, etc.

gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Trust me, this is his happy face.

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consil... #smbc

Mercer students design, develop space-themed arcade game Starship Showdown feels like a classic arcade game. But the two-player shooting game was actually created in 2024 by two students who weren’t even alive during the arcade’s heyday.

We spent 2023-2024 building an arcade game (software and hardware) from scratch. We spent 2024-2025 doing research on card games and creating a life path RPG system. We cost about 5-6k a year. Become a supporter of a cool thing. den.mercer.edu/mercer-stude...

I am looking for a game company or someone who is interested in games research to make a contribution to my research lab because: we need money. If that’s you please DM me.

I might need to add an extra chapter just on this post to my book manuscript on ecofascism and animals.

Ep 16: More Slaughterhouse Capitalism with James Stanescu — How We Win We are so happy to share another guest with you, James Stanescu, who collaborated with Vasile on the ideas in his recent essay for Current Affairs. We previously talked about Slaughterhouse Capitalism...

You can listen to it here, or wherever you get podcasts. www.winforanimals.org/how-we-win-p...

The podcast is wide ranging, but mostly focuses on the interlocking nature of different modes of capitalist production and our relationship to other animals. This work is the basis of a book Vas and I are writing (editors of academic presses feel free to reach out!).

How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

This is the link to Vas' article: www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

I was recently invited on Vas and Devs Stanescu podcast, How We Win. Our focus was on “Slaughterhouse Capitalism.” This is Vas’ recent article for
@currentaffairs.bsky.social
It also grows out of my own research.

Wow.

Opinion: Warehousing kids makes us all less safe D.C.'s Youth Services Center isn't reducing crime—it's manufacturing it.

DC’s warehousing of kids is cruel and counterproductive. Meanwhile, there are common sense alternatives available.

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Like a birthday present that you made yourself!

Truth.

Art History Major does not generally have better financial outcomes than finance major. Recently an article from CNBC has been going around, entitled, " College majors with the best and worst job prospects — art history beats f...

That article that argues art history has better economic outcomes than finance is a lie. www.criticalanimal.com/2025/05/art-...