For like thirty seconds I was interested in Alan Liu’s The Laws of Cool until I read the synopsis of a presentation he gave on it and decided it wasn’t actually all that insightful, from the sound of it.
God, I want to read something. Maybe tomorrow I bring some reading, though I’m not sure that would look right .
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I’m really glad I went to the University of Chicago. I feel like it’s busted this thing wide open.
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I’m bored shitless, still an hour to go.
§ As you get older, the ghosts become more real than anything else.
§ Under the leaves, soil. Under the soil, stone. Under the stone, souls.
§ Radically empowering individuals in society may be the worst mistake we ever made.
§ Want to be a radical? Refuse to suffer. Then, wait for the assault.
§ Goodbye 2017, part two. (The real part.)
§ Sometimes you find home where you’ve never been—and you dwell where you aren’t.
§ The self can’t play Atlas for postmodernity because science is now supernatural.
§ Rehab is universal. So is history.
§ Identity, transcendence, and tactics.
§ Untitled. (a.k.a. Pretty faces, new old photos.)