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I agree with version. If philosophers and debaters were genuinely serious, they would basically just go "hmm i don't know" at every question instead saying/writing something that could be said/written within the logic of the discourse.

Yeah in a way it's completely unserious to talk in this way, that's true. It was bad under the pandemic with all the world historically-tuned prophesies.

Don't know if I even buy the narrative that he has shifted things for good. Might be business as usual again before we know it.

It is definitely more interesting when the evil force dominating our world is of some sort of cryptic, non-human nature. Which is why Trump's dismantling of neo-liberalism is a moment of bathos.

I have no idea what this guy is talking about. But the pleasure in Trump is surely that the political-economic system, which we have been made to understand as this dark, transcendent, impenetrable intelligence, is being sidelined by the very mundane, primitively human impulses of one man. He...

"There is absolutely no reason in the world why a man in America may not write exactly what he feels, in any form that suits him, and if he has what is known as talent, or even genius, there is no reason why it should not be published and be read and understood by many other Americans. It...

You can say that if you care about sincerety you end up evaluating art through a crude binary that has no sensibility for the variety and subtlety of form. But then another understanding of sincerety is a sort of staying true to a singular individualising force that shapes your...

I think it's still sort of interesting. This returning to sincerety as a final criterion seems a misguided idea. In a way, sincerety, as the highest possible concept we can aspire to have a common everyday use understanding of, should be a first criterion. An entry level qualification for...

I agree that some criterion of honesty is necessary, especially in a market economy. Don't know this can be conceptually rescued from the theory but yeah surely it's delusion to claim that it's not there playing a part in any reading of any text. If we're good marxists the interesting question...

That there's no such thing. And that there's a sort of indulgence in its appeal. Which english culture has evolved to weed out in all its guises.

Sincerety is a very American concept isn't it, and central I guess to the artlessness indictment. Trilling, David Foster Wallace, Hemingway etc. American literature is an easier place to begin when you're young because of this I think. Easier to understand what it is about and how to...

Isn't it Real who are trying to sign him? The financial situation seems pretty dire yes. They are selling out of their future revenue to make ends meet. Don't think they'll be making any marquee signings in the near future.

Barca are definitely a funny team to watch this season. They have a steely-eyed German coach named Hansi who plays with an absolutely suicidal high line. Down in the other end they are outscoring every team in Europe. Half the players are either slightly too old or too inexperienced. They have a...

That was Wojtek Szczesny actually. They brought him out of retirement to fill in when Ter Stegen was injured. So far he's been quite the disaster.

The mainstream attitude towards him seems more cautious and fractured than last time around. The vibe, as they say, feels a bit up in the air.

I felt sort of the same. Well made film that I had no reason to dislike but just couldn't get into it. Maybe it was because the monster had mustache.

Denmark has stretches of this kind of winter as well. Not that cold or windy, just grey doldrums, the world stuck in a valley between day and night, unable to swing itself back into circuit.

Very Don Delillo this one:

Obviously the spectacle still refers back to the actual politics in some relation or other. But it's a machine that feeds on itself. In 2020 it took mass covid deaths to short cirtuit the machine and reassert actual material politics as the priveleged rhetoric. Good question how you actually...

She was a good at basking in her popularity within her base, not so good at speaking to people outside it. Not a bad candidate per se but caught up in that whole self-congratulatory Democrat thing, which is pure nutrition for the trumpian reactionary sentiment.