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A lot of trad Caths take a tremendous amount of pride in assimilating themselves into a narrow sliver of the Western tradition, where their interior vision is supposed to look like Andrei Rublev’s or Giotto’s or Michelangelo’s. Art that flouts that lineage flatters their aspirations. Denouncing the travesties of modernism reinforces their own sense of achievement. But neither of those things bring them to encounter how the world looks on the inside to another person like a painting by Pollock does, or one by any number of the “degenerate” modern artists traddies and conservatives love to hate.
Blaise Cole in Cracks in Pomo
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Again, Kojeve was a genius in the way his interpretations transcended the predictive mists of things to come with a prophetic certainty.
This paragraph from his lectures on Kant took me to a particular scene in Blade Runner.
I understand the popularity of this book but feel obliged to explain each issue on which it is most profoundly incorrect.
I will be taking no questions.
The only millennial Europeans who were at least on some level able to relate to what it means growing up in the Balkans during the Yugoslav succession wars and the criminal transition are the Irish Millenials from Belfast.
“They said that I should lose my ideals & begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.”
G.K. Chesterton
Because we have a unique transcendental capacity for epistemic breakthrough, expressed in the productive faculty that metaphysics possesses.
AI is the Hegelian unhappy consciousness trapping us in an extratemporal limbo of eternal authenticity.
What is special about the human, in your opinion, such that human writing is inherently better than AI writing? Is it that while AI is a "next word predictor" or "stochastic parrot" or midwit mirror, human language generates novelty, quality, originality? Why? How?
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“The case against Irigaray, when made well, looks something like this. She insists that the feminine has been excluded from the symbolic order, and she gestures toward another economy -fluid, multiple, two-lipped-that has supposedly survived the imposition of the masculine logos.” Ilgin Yildiz