yea good question. while i take Nietzsche’s position to be something like the first option, theres a real concern about this generating its own forms of dogmatism. the more compelling alternative, on my view, is to take the latter strategy as a path to generating the former as a result
Thanks very much for reading and for the kind words!
Qui Parle is inviting submissions for a special issue on renovations of humanism and new directions in the thematic of the subject. Please consider submitting, and share widely! I am coediting the issue, and would be happy to answer any questions.
I love Providence, Rhode Island very much and hate a fucking gun.
My heart is with my beautiful alma mater right now. We should treasure universities.
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My paper, “Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits” is now out in Qui Parle
an honor to be interviewed by Robin Manley for @jhideas.bsky.social - come for the spicy takes on critical AI and media history, stay for the stuff on Saussure and dialectics
I had the pleasure of interviewing @leifw.bsky.social about his exciting new book, Language Machines! If you’ve ever wondered whether the unconscious is structured like a large language model, you’ll get a lot from Leif’s reflections here — and from the book, out soon from @uminnpress.bsky.social
My pleasure! Thank you for the excellent book to write about!
trying to explain to normies that the state has been captured by a technofascist apocalyptic AI death cult
putting this out once more: my attempt to demonstrate that Foucault seriously misrepresents Nietzsche's philosophy of history in his account of the genealogical method. perhaps of interest to Foucault scholars, as well as those in lit/media/science studies thinking about historicism & its limits!
the vice president of research at google citing Jane Bennett to argue that AI systems are alive... who could have possibly seen this coming
second, from Borges
might as well toss in some related ephemera to sweeten the deal. first, from Beatrice Han-Pile's incredible book on Foucault:
Article title: The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault's Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History Abstract: Contemporary critical scholarship takes Foucault’s genealogical work as a paradigm, and it is widely recognized that Foucault himself took Nietzsche as a methodological exemplar. Notably, Foucault’s landmark methodological text – ‘Nietzsche, Genealogy, History’ – is framed as a faithful exposition of Nietzsche. Contrary to Foucault’s framing, however, this article argues that his account of genealogy is incompatible with and anathema to Nietzsche’s philosophy of history. Through a close reading of Foucault’s essay alongside Nietzsche’s second Unfashionable Observation, it seeks to demonstrate that Foucault’s account of genealogy is premised on an inadequately one-sided reading of Nietzsche’s more dialectical account of history and the ahistorical. Whereas Foucault presents an anti-metaphysical Nietzsche suspicious of teleological origins and ahistorical forms, Nietzsche’s essay in fact insists on the necessity of such figures as an antidote to historicism. Reading Nietzsche against Foucault, this article investigates the conceptual foundations of the contemporary genealogical method, suggesting that Nietzsche may present an alternative – rather than precursor – to the Foucauldian paradigm.
have you ever thought: I don't know Foucault, maybe knowledge isn't only for cutting? or: I'm not sure it's true that Nietzsche has two different concepts of origin in the preface to the Genealogy of Morals? you might be interested in my new article, open access from @theoryculturesociety.org!
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Robin Manley, 'The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
"Aligned to" is a way of saying that they have no proof that he provided anything that could be legally construed as material support to Hamas, or showed allegiance to Hamas in any way, but he said some things they decided are vaguely in alignment with Hamas and they're imprisoning him for it.
My review of the excellent Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by @bernarddionysius.bsky.social is out now in the new and very exciting @histsocialscience.bsky.social! Available open access here~~
muse.jhu.edu/article/952248
i have come to feel that both of them (and 'pundit genre' they are a part of) are eating off of a fundamental revulsion not so much at the technology but the habits of mind of the people pushing them.
This is a really specific engagement with @annakornbluh.bsky.social 's work from Jensen. I don't always agree with it, but I found it provocative and enjoyable to read. It's the kind of criticism that makes us all better interlocutors. I hope Anna will respond?
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look i know this is not the point but a 90% error rate is sort of impressive? surely it takes some skill to get the numbers that low. plus, just invert your decisions and suddenly you've got a half-decent system
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staring in awe at endnotes from an Eminent Scholar in which the URLs that are provided in place of proper bibliographic reference have been shortened with ellipses
imo it should be illegal for men in their 20s to quote the freakonomics podcast at me
haters will hate but it’s an elegant solution
