terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth, a world which now trembles before the king in yellow
bogna
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bogna
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π₯· prof @ nyu shanghai. based across ukraine and china. now writing a book about eastern european intellectual history, science, & philosophy and future of ai.
- (girl who loves language more than anyone can even comprehend) we need to get beyond language
- if you think your love is unrequited, wait until you learn about satan as god's tragic lover in sufi mysticism
- Oppenheimer's daily routine as a graduate student at Harvard featured serving tea, wishing he were dead, reading & pining for Spinoza girls π
- friends tricked me into reading spinoza's 'ethics' under pretext that 'it is the most beautiful philosophy book ever' and then spinoza is like, "if [the substance] (A1) is considered in itself, it cannot, as evident from A2, D4, and D5, be produced by anything else q.e.d,
- Deleuze on silence, solitude, and the excess of communication. - from 'Cartography of Exhaustion' by Peter PΓ‘l Pelbart
- In Gay Science, Nietzsche describes the noble person as magnanimous and self-sacrificing, animalistic in their strength, passion, and disregard of death; the cowardly, who only act through rational calculation, envy & despise this 'lunatic joy.'
- That Chinese government disappeared a tech billionaire at the same time when American tech billionaires disappear the president shows geopolitical orders plain as ever.
- while millennials have been turning into bugmen obsessed with productivity and the grind, the kids have perfected kyoto school practices of nothingness and achieved buddha-nature
