Finally started to write lecture 1 of that Fichte course. I know what I've set myself up for.
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Профиль VivelyAdam, Cohost @acidhorizon.bsky.social (He/Him) Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape (2023) and The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy (2024). Upcoming: Hegel's Exorcism: The Insurrectionary Thought of Max Stirner.
Good news folks, we can burn the library of Alexandria and construct Borges' library of Babel at the same time! Not even the dead will be safe? Not even the *fictional* will be safe from a capitalist class accustomed to impunity and playing with house money.
Eli ValleyDystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
Damn I need to watch this film then I guess. If you haven't seen it either don't worry. This is an engaging discussion that makes me more excited to see how the narrative plays out on screen.
BLOOD WORKBLOOD WORK / EPISODE 43 YOUR BEING MANIPULATED: EDDINGTON w/ HUSSEIN KESVANI @hkesvani.bsky.social Hussein comes on to talk about the most important film of the COVID era that isn’t Christopher Nolan’s TENET.
"To demand education as a means of empowerment is not simply to demand it as a means of employment, but also to pursue and seize it as a defiant luxury which employment would deny us." A piece developed from recent AHRC panel "University of Excess" happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/t...
The University of Excess: On Education and its EmploymentThe title of this piece originally came together from a conversation I had with Stevphen Shukaitis in the wake of the waves of redundancies at the University of Essex, from which he pitched the rat…happyhourathippels.wordpress.com"The datasets produce self-referential objects that serve as support, justification or ‘evidence’ to inform the violence perpetrated by the state."- www.newintermag.com/ai-as-class-... It'd be nice to call it on something good happening for a change. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggestsUpper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’www.theguardian.comI think it's literally Lovecraftian. Lovecraft, who originally grew up sheltered and affluent, wrote about how encountering people of other races and religions was so unthinkable he could only portray it through hyperbolic terror. The Shadow Over Innsmouth ends with such people in camps and bombed.
HKAt some point in the future we’re going to have to really assess how many people are with status and power lost their minds trying to maintain illusions
Manchesterism is back! The Manchester in question:
Saul StaniforthFalconer: ".. the real importance of trying to get more young people into work.. also making sure the PIP system incentivises that" Except PIP isn't an out of work benefit, its a benefit to help with the extra costs of living with a disability, & plenty on people PIP do work
Torturing people (that's what prison is, it's why the papers get mad when they don't think prisoners 'suffer enough') until they recant the heresy of knowing the obvious: that the entire British ruling class are genocidaires. They know it won't achieve that goal, it's an indefinite cruelty licence.
CarolineJMolloy“A terrorist sentencing also means defendants’ serve at least two-thirds of their tariff in prison, much longer than is the norm. To obtain parole they must rescind their political views.”
The first series of public events over at the AHRC have been a lot of fun and Craig's cracking designs have made one hell of a poster collection to boot. Next event is Wednesday 29th on Fanon and Anders! Details and link via www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/previous-cou...
1 year since Ozzy died. Here is possibly the worst and funniest performance of a metal song in human history, in which he forgets what words are and almost drowns a woman due to a kind of libidinal hypnosis. youtu.be/QYimZiTzLuk?...
Ozzy Osbourne - I Don't Want to Change the World (Live at Camden 2003) FullHDYouTube video by RockShowFullHDyoutu.be