• fragment on metamethodology

    All walls must crumble; all that was important must be plucked, picked apart, sieved and pressed into uniform goop. Down with General Axiology itself! Down with all structural assumptions that have survived through the dexterity of their own luck. An exception: the metamethodology. Theory was long defined as the metamethodology naturally paired with genericity —…

  • fragment on contingent histories

    Anything that can be said to have temporal extent must be incident to germinal and terminal nodes. The cardinality of germinal- and terminalsets neatly characterizes metaphysical accounts of plurality and singularity. Perhaps more importantly, the existence of germinal and terminal paths characterizes particular claims about reachability — namely which singular states are within the terminal…

  • the bad news

    The general/generic distinction (therefore: the concept of genericity as distinct from generality) doesn’t work. Marche pas, no va, doesn’t go. Repercussions soon to be noted.

  • Listen to this

    youtube.com/watch It’s impressively pretty — and for whatever reason it has a view count in the hundreds. It features good percussion and wailing, soul-seeking flutes.

  • Quability parenting

    Quability parenting

    I. The issue of how to best cope with the responsibility of having kids used to be labeled childrearing or puericulture. The shift to parenting is an interesting development. It de-centers the child and expectations on the child’s pace and schedule of development and re-centers on the adult’s development. In vulgata deleuziana this could be…

  • Huaso unchained

    Huaso unchained

    (Previously in this series: Ezra, Huaso and St. Dennis (I, II), Margot Robbie’s legs (Ezra, Huaso and St. Dennis pt. 3) I. This is how the sausage is made: expertise is the chromatically unstable claim to possess the means for reliably transform certain oughts into existence. This is the goal of expertise; it exposes both its quability…

  • defmacro discarded bits

    (I’m cleaning up my drafts box. This hails from the early weeks of the pandemic.) The original intent of asemic horizon was not to publish kiloword-increments on a theoretical construction that was alleged (air quotes: allegedly) to be required to understand current affairs. It was, on the contrary, expected to comment on current affairs themselves, albeit…

  • Fourth Epideictics: The Mirror of Seduction

    Fourth Epideictics: The Mirror of Seduction

    I set out today to write an essay on the “pick-up arts” — the various methods and underlying theories whose goal is to increase your body count.

  • Recommended YouTube viewing

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  • Margot Robbie’s legs (Ezra, Huaso and St. Dennis pt. 3)

    Margot Robbie’s legs (Ezra, Huaso and St. Dennis pt. 3)

    (Parts 1 and 2 here) I. Libertarianism is the conspiracy theory that there’s such a thing as a legitimate State. Thatcherism made this conspiracy more palatable by introducing the claim that there’s no such thing as *society*. This claim is false in Durkheim and true in Luhmann; but even in the absence of fancy citations,…

  • Multiples

    Multiples

    1a. There’s a thread from Hokusai to Messiaen. I don’t want to describe it as much as I want to seize it. I want to grab and hold on to it; know it by its friction on my palms; pull and be pulled. On one knot stand 36 views of Mount Fuji; on the next,…

  • Mens rea (in) res corporis

    Mens rea (in) res corporis

    I. The cookie crumbles as follows: causation feels equivalent to inevitability, and inevitably feels like it precludes meaningful human action. This would be far more devastating than it seems at first: it’s not just that “your life has no meaning” implying a spiritual void; rather, if nothing can be otherwise, then no communication is possible.…