Sublime Zettels February 2025
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Sublime Zettels February 2025
[Breach is] the idea that the internet has become our externalised collective unconscious, capturing and then amplifying a swirling ocean of our projections, hopes, fantasies, and violent urges. Some of these become archetypal, turning into myths and memes that evolve to take on a life of their own. The longer our unexpressed desires and rages swir... See more
Sublime Zettels February 2025
This form of anonymous, procedural power, which I’ve characterised elsewhere as “swarmism”, has emerged as a central feature of post-liberal governance. To supporters, it’s innocuous: just well-designed institutions functioning as they should.
[“deep state” (Bannon) “the Cathedral” (Curtis Yarvin)] ... its most salient characteristic is ...“power wi... See more
[“deep state” (Bannon) “the Cathedral” (Curtis Yarvin)] ... its most salient characteristic is ...“power wi... See more
Sublime Zettels February 2025
It is our good fortune to have such an abundance of metamorphic rocks in our midst, with insights to share not only about their origins but everything they’ve experienced since. It’s not too much of a stretch to say that they are responsive, even sentient, in that they ‘perceive’ their surroundings and change in response. Their stories are genuinel... See more
Sublime Zettels February 2025
Julie: “Did I give you the car keys?”
Current AJ: “I don’t have a memory of it, but it’s possible.”
And then I’ll spend a few seconds searching for keys in my backpack. Sometimes I even find them there.
Current AJ: “I don’t have a memory of it, but it’s possible.”
And then I’ll spend a few seconds searching for keys in my backpack. Sometimes I even find them there.
Sublime Zettels February 2025
It has always struck me as the greatest spiritual irony that the most recalcitrant locks that we encounter are those on the outside of the gates of paradise, those that insist to God that He remain beyond our world behind gates we have barred against Him. And there on the outside, we can rant and rage against all the injustice of our world and all ... See more
Sublime Zettels February 2025
[Ideal Husband movie]
As the art historian Jennifer Roberts argued several years ago, “Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness.” Or, as she also puts it, just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it.
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not... See more
As the art historian Jennifer Roberts argued several years ago, “Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness.” Or, as she also puts it, just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it.
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not... See more