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What is Culture?
The Destruction of Community in Schiller, Holderlin, and Pindar
Aug 28 • 
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The Sleepers by Matthew Gasda
A review
Aug 16 • 
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One Day Dolphins Will Have Hands
Eternal war and other AI predictions
Aug 2 • 
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In Defense of the Beats
Reading 'On the Road' in 2025
Jun 23 • 
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The Day After the Rabblement
On Hegel, Joyce, and Why History Won’t Quite End
May 25 • 
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Why AI Cannot Replace Artists
Tractatus Technico-Aestheticus
Apr 29 • 
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Mysticism, or the Ego Death of Eros
A Review of Simon Critchley’s "Mysticism"
Apr 12 • 
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Nachlass I
This is the firstin a series of posts for paid subscribers in which I share my research on the notion of the “end of art”—the theory that art is a thing…
Apr 2 • 
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Our Return to Good and Evil
Twin Peaks Against the Shakespearean Quincentenary
Mar 21 • 
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The Winter of Our Shit Content
On the Art World Agonies of Sam Kriss and Dean Kissick
Feb 14 • 
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Nietzsche Goes to Naples
In his book on Hölderlin’s hymn “The Ister,” Heidegger develops an interpretative technique that we can call “stating the obvious”: he suggests the hymn…
Feb 6 • 
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David Lynch and How Death Makes Profound
David Lynch is dead.
Jan 18 • 
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