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mixed biscuits, you are the gk chesterton of your age

brill: "Absolute music has many highly intelligent proponents, including my old philosophy advisor and even the iconic poet, novelist, musician, and London underworld explorer Woops. But despite these lofty endorsements I find it so absurd on an intuitive level that I won’t discuss it any...

LessWrong - Kicking the Stick from the Blind Man of Ignorance

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what the fuck are you talking about

i want it to be a neat cycle of a week on the omer to read these. Tiferes stands in for Apollo and i think the essays are a somewhat Apollonian undertaking, its an Apollonian model for listening and criticism

today is Malchus in Gvurah, self-possession/sovereignty embedded in severity/sternness/strength

i think shader as an album is kind of emblematic of the entire 'psychedelic home listening' idea

if the shader talk was early in the cycle or if we discussed it when we hung out, iirc u had it on the money

viz. medievalist forms of 'guild socialism' in germany before + continuing past marx; sorel and peguy (ambivalent/vacillating figures) as formative for mussolini, their appropriation by vichy france

the common term of socialism and fascism is not, can't really be 'authority', rather what is salient is their common emergence in romanticism

i'd argue that the superficially 'social' and 'collective' elements of fascist propaganda borrow more from pre-/non-/anti-marxist socialist trends

yes!

autechre triple dryads

Ochre tribal doodads