Cancelled grants and frozen funds is an opportunity for organizing groups of people that might not have previously been inclined to join labor struggles within higher education

all of this is temporary: Mark Fisher YouTube video by cci collective

Fisher, describing post-capitalist time, comes close to describing Gebserian time-freedom: "This other [use] of time... this open-ended, unpressured sense of time... the specter of that time is very haunting."
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If our looking "ripens" things, as Rilke says, and if attention is prayer, as Weil says, then creativity may be its highest form--creative presence as communion and devotion to the living world.

If our looking "ripens" things, as Rilke says, and if attention is prayer, as Weil says, then creativity may be its highest form--creative presence as communion and devotion to the living world.

Some fragmentary writing on writing in relation:

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New writing—letters and philosophical fragments on ecology and planetary thought—coming soon.

Here’s a snippet.

As if I don't already have *too* many projects on my plate -- one of the goals I have for later this year (after I publish Fragments) is digging up my old science fiction novel idea. Fiction writing was an early passion of mine, and never really went away. Feels meaningful.

My partner and I are (re)watching LOST. Say what you want about the end of the show, but John Locke in season 1 is our favorite. He reads like a fictional Bill Plotkin, and many of the events on the island make sense--at least from an animist point of view.

Other, highly influential work has been Graeber and Wengrow's expansive collaboration, Dawn of Everything, as well as the anarchic scholarship of James C. Scott.

Some major literary inspirations are found in books like William Irwin Thompson's The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, or some of Ken Wilber's classic older texts like Up from Eden/Atman Project (though, again, thoroughly departing from stage-centric, developmental logic).

We can learn from living systems, and we already have the right concepts to tell a different history far more aligned with decolonial thought. Meta-historical narratives don't need to sacrifice emergence, or the big picture, when they discard linear, Enlightenment-era stories.

One of the major themes of my forthcoming book is that, when it comes to the history of consciousness (which, as the German Romantics understood, was also the 'poetic' history of philosophy), we need better narratives. Non-linear. Dynamic and living.

David Lynch in sunglasses saying "i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects"

Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.

More than ever it is vital to recall this singular idea: tomorrow already lives in us.

If we are already in relation with latent futures, it behooves us all to aspire towards greater degrees of agency in the face of technocratic dehumanization, presence in the face of rampant clock-time, and freedom in the face of spiritual estrangement.

A black-and-white portrait of David Lynch. He is looking straight into the camera. A headline reads: "1946-2025: David Lynch, Visionary Filmmaker, Dies at 78." Photo by Sara Hirakawa for The New York Times.

Breaking News: David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker, has died at 78. He was known for his surreal style in films like “Eraserhead” and “Mulholland Drive,” as well as the TV series “Twin Peaks.” nyti.ms/3WphQj8

These are field-shaping, paradigm-shifting volumes. Translations in one, commentary in the other--everything we need to correct the record and do right by these brilliant and neglected women philosophers. Genuinely exciting, deeply inspiring! @dalianassar.bsky.social #philsky #womeninphilosophy

In 2025 our love for this world has to become more ferocious.

We cannot bottle up our righteous fury at forces who are knowing setting the world on fire and actually *want* it to burn because they think they will be safe.

Whether in their palaces in the sky or their palaces down here on earth.

Cover of A Natural History of Empty Lots

My new book A Natural History of Empty Lots is released today. I hope you like it—it distills 20 years of exploring the edgelands, working on rewilding projects, and trying to understand what such places teach us about our lives, history and future: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...

Au contraire. LLMs show why Kant was right and Hume was wrong: you don't get causal understanding just from predicting correlations (and they don't even strictly speaking predict anything; we use them to do that). www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

I've been deeply appreciating The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It is just as much a book on writing as it is on *why* one should write, and how good writing--and by extension storytelling--haunts us, carries us over into the sublime, and changes our world.

Stumbled across this book and hope to eventually check it out. It explores temporality under the conditions of capitalism--something I write about towards the end of my new book on Gebser and integral time.

The Guardian medias empathetic coverage of Luigi Mangione reveals an obsession with humanizing white male suspects

People were calling the shooter a folk hero as soon as they found out who the victim was, as nothing was known about the shooter.

Weaponizing the reality that white killers are treated differently by the media this way is a pathetic attempt to distract from the conversation around health insurance

Freedom, God, and Ground: An Introduction to Schelling’s 1809 Freedom Essay Introduction I would like to take the time in the very short space that I have to introduce the main themes of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s (1775-1854) last published work, the riveting and di...

Here is the final product of my essay on Schelling's 1809 Freedom Essay. The Essay itself, is meant to stand as both a guide or introduction to the main themes that are dazzling and difficult. I hope you all enjoy it! Thanks again to @epochemagazine.org

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Chappell Roan in a really cool and colourful cunty harlequin type outfit next to John mulaney in a boring suit

Pure durée vs spatialised time

To be clear, the only real and sustainable fear and respect the ruling class *should* have, the only path that can lead towards very real social change and economic redistribution, comes from organized labor.

"...transforms itself into a creative tension emerging from the togetherness of life-sustaining and complementary poles.” - Jean Gebser [2/2]

"To surrender the opposite is to gain together-ness: genuine inter-human participation… Subject and object lose their previous dualistic and antagonistic character of opposition, and the antagonism engendered by preserving a misunderstood ego-valuation" [1/2]

"Here we would only note once again that the phenomenon of "lack of time" is characteristic of our material, spatially accentuated world: How is anyone to have time if he tears it apart?" - Jean Gebser

Yes, the three people waiting for essays from me are going to have to keep waiting. Idea: academic advent calendar where every morning you open a door and find another task you won’t finish in December.