Leibniz lives

Yearly reminder of the reality of the aether

'have I not freed myself a thousand times in thought? why should I hesitate to do it once in reality?'
—Hölderlin, Hyperion

Some of the unfathomably based secondary literature that will be making an appearance in this year's 𝔗ropik reading group. ⬇️

sorry to spoil your 'fun'

Joseph Görres, afterword to History of Asiatic Myths

Lukács on Novalis

What is 'party rock'? How do we define the 'party rocker' subculture? It is not sufficient to be partying to rock, there is something about the party qualifier that makes it entirely different in kind... What then is party rock?

They groupoid together and they scheme, pursuing stacks of cash.

Vico's theory of decadence states that societies become increasingly, frenziedly enamoured of abstraction right before they collapse. In this light, the prevalence of systematic hypercube worship, Grothendieckian street gangs & transpatial memory theatres does not bode well.

Society: The trickster motif can't hurt you. It's just a representative compromise tracking invariants across diverse mythic traditions.

The motif index: