dylan

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

old gaelic laments has disappeared from the internet, maybe the world. not even simon chadwick himself has a copy (i’ve emailed him)

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

people turn 30 and are like “the only sound i can handle is dub techno”

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

@synthjunta damn that’s who keeps knocking :(

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

now i can get into orlando furioso as much as any dude but there is no music that exists or can exist that is more irritating than vivaldi’s c major mandolin concerto

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

@sean_tatol thank you sean !!!

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

does anyone on here have a rip of farocki’s “a new product”? if so can you send it to me? the file i have is corrupted somehow. want to show it to my students

[Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall]

2000 pages of Leibniz, much of it previously untranslated or unpublished, will be published next month.

They’ll appear in a new 3-volume ed. of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers (1677–1686), ed. by Lloyd Stricklandand published by Oxford University Press. https://t.co/mAvt4qL1DV

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

brahms was really ripping off keith jarrett in those intermezzi wasn’t he

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

is it a spiral of water or the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas?

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

paradise (pairidaēza —> paradeisos), the first instance of primitive accumulation

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

The UC Irvine French department didn’t hire anyone for years because no one was good enough to be Jacques Derrida’s colleague. After some retirements and deaths (including Derrida’s), only 2 French profs remained, and they hated each other so much one became an English professor.

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

the best of it sounded almost like pop tatari-era boredoms

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

good dream. destroyed vhs tape blaring unattended in freezing punk basement: zero budget 90s SOV lip-sync power metal costume narrative. sweaty corpulent man trampling mummy-like “enemies” & belting preposterously intense bangers with titles like “wax obsidian” & “glorious f*ck”

[Winter Pallaksch @pallakschh]

Wow -- the personal correspondence between Derrida and Paul de Man will be published in English next summer by Edinburgh. i don't believe it's been published in French yet https://t.co/vkPUmgrzOo

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

and from the swoon two things emerged, as usual: first, the pure and—mmm—naked essence, that is, Lucille, who is consumed by the watchers, that is, the congregation, that is, us

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

nephew (2 y.o.) calls the sun “fire moon”

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

@thewastedworld marcuse’s own heart sutra

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

“manipulating words that are no longer anchored in being”

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

apocalypse eve party, to which no one shows up

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

@dietilectics absolutely nothing that has anything to do with gödel, arguments for the existence of numbers, etc lol

[dylan @dylanjdt_]

dear eccentric writing60 student who just turned in this strange, terse “is gödelian platonism too metaphysical?” tract instead of the requisite e-portfolio: you’re getting an A