Devine Commentary

In Defense of the Beats

Reading 'On the Road' in 2025

Jun 23 •

The Day After the Rabblement

On Hegel, Joyce, and Why History Won’t Quite End

May 25 •

Why AI Cannot Replace Artists

Tractatus Technico-Aestheticus

Apr 29 •

Mysticism, or the Ego Death of Eros

A Review of Simon Critchley’s "Mysticism"

Apr 12 •

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 •

Our Return to Good and Evil

Twin Peaks Against the Shakespearean Quincentenary

Mar 21 •

The Winter of Our Shit Content

On the Art World Agonies of Sam Kriss and Dean Kissick

Feb 14 •

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 •

David Lynch and How Death Makes Profound

David Lynch is dead.

Jan 18 •

Beyond the Profit Principle

Against H-1Bs and the One Trillion Human Cult

Jan 10 •

The New Barbarism

10Xing the Chaotic Age

Dec 24, 2024 •

How Zizek Got Pwned

A response to Slavoj Zizek's "FROM MAGA TO MEGA: AFTER TRUMP'S VICTORY"

Nov 13, 2024 •

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