There's an old saying in Schelling—I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling—that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again

World Central Kitchen is stopping its aid services in Gaza as a result of IDF strike on its employees. This was Israel’s go to alternative for UNRWA wck.org/news/gaza-team…

the images coming out of al shifa hospital are some of the worst I’ve ever seen as a Palestinian. bodies in stages of decomposition and skeletons crushed by bulldozers. human remains mangled and charred. this is what our tax dollars go towards.

The Great Richard Serra (1938-2024)

'New York City is the [insert city here] of America.'

Born to read, forced to grade

Just texted my dad a clip of a Herbert Marcuse interview and asked if his Swiss-German immigrant grandfather had a similar accent.

The projections from Johns Hopkins/LSHTM about projected deaths in Gaza over the next six months are nothing short of horrific.

In a scenario of escalation, as Israel appears to be heading to in Rafah, as many as a quarter million Palestinians could die from injury and disease.

After much deliberation, I've titled my phenomenology memo 'How Strange It Is to Be Anything At All.'

this is such a nightmare projects.propublica.org/the-year-after…

“It’s an audition for a guest spot on the Joe Rogan podcast and a cover letter for a megaproject in a well-capitalized petrostate.”

I implore you to read this excellent review by my good friend Michael Nicholas.

There are moments in life when a sort of beauty is born of the multiplicity of the troubles that assail us, like Wagnerian leitmotifs

Heraclitus OWNS Pythagoras with FACTS and LOGIC!

how it started ////// how its going

Powers of Ten (1977) by Charles and Ray Eames youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0?fe…

Cancelling Clifford Geertz for writing “Finnegan’s Wake” (instead of the correct “Finnegans Wake”) not once but TWICE in the “Thick Description” essay.

chabad tunnels are inarguably a great twitter bit but it comes with a dreadful remembrance of the gang of 4chan antisemitic psychos who have gathered on this site

To whomever put Ed Soja’s Postmetropolis in the “New Age” section at Topos, I thank you for inspiring a very genuine chuckle.