Pinned
I have an essay called "Kierkegaardian Individualism and the Political" in the new issue of Politics and Poetics ⬇️
Matt Dinan
47.8K posts
Matt Dinan
@second_sailing
- The honest B or C student, submitting essays filled with awkward constructions, malapropisms, earnest, if failed or surface-y arguments--a surprise hero of the present age.
- The last paragraph is something like a Hippocratic oath for humanities professors
NEW: AI is not revolutionary. It’s a gimmick, writes @JonMalesic. hedgehogreview.com/web-features/t… - Replying to @second_sailing"To sight just one example..."--yes, sight it, B or C, student! You bring tears to my eyes! For you understand what it means to love!
- Replying to @second_sailingHonest B or C student: you are trying to learn!
- Replying to @second_sailingB or C student, your work is middling, but your spirit is noble and pure!
- The number of times I got “this stupid philosophy class is wrecking my gpa” lolReplying to @ppyownaYou will never hear a Math major say "My English and History classes are too difficult"
- It's really amazing how older elites don't understand how much screen culture *is* the way the class issue manifests itself
- Replying to @gbrl_dickMy first daughter got up at around four and we were having Thai food and watching tv and she shouted: “I KNEW IT!” but then went back to bed.
- bro in library to girl: "do you know about this guy Foucault? he's like a continental philosopher from the sixties and he's obsessed with sex and thinks everything is a prison"
- Today I learned they're doing "No Kings" in Canada, but calling it "No Tyrants" because, of course, we actually have a king
- Yeah, and in each case the alarmists were right, lolIn response to the recent "Your Brain on ChatGPT" pre-print that is making the rounds, here's a short history of tech-induced brain rot.
- Replying to @second_sailingWrote about this on my ‘stack a little while back:
