notebook from august

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1. Incel activity and local economics

2. Collage as a "dirty medium"

3. "Nomothetic disciplines"

4. History and "ontological uniqueness"

5. Idiographic treatment of the unique thing

6. The challenges of practicing idiographic history

7. The impossibility of an idiographic science

8. Eliade and the "eternal return"

9. Johannes Fabian and "time-hegemony"

10. Peter Osborne's "The Politics of Time"

11. Ted Underwood's "Distant Horizons"

12. On being an "example of a process"

13. "The law and the event"

14. The mass subject

15. Public virtue

16. A reading list for an autofiction course

17. The style of late capitalism is "nothing"

18. "Chill" and the economy of passive listening

19. On friction

20. Musical labor in the culture of scale

21. "Kalon"

22. The "cosmogram"

23. "The most pertinent spiritual question" in Christianized cultures

24. Spinoza on Christ

25. The German Romantics and divine power

26. Kierkegaard's "Repetition"

27. Spinoza, God, and personhood

28. Romain Rolland

29. Reading order for Grant Morrison's Batman run

30. Defending humanities writing

31. AI and the "publishable unit"

32. Eytan Adar's guidance for students

33. Nick Srnicek's "Platform Capitalism"

34. The "reverse centaur"

35. Sarah Brouillette's "Content Machines"

36. "The Human Costume"

37. Statistics on retired Americans

38. Private equity and nursing homes

39. Public texts

40. Publication and "the public"

41. "Abstracting oneself in public"

42. Masculinity, femininity, and self-abstraction

43. Pier Paolo Pasolini on "tolerance"

44. The "minoritizing logic of domination"

45. "Minoritized subjects" and the counterutopia of consumption

46. From publicity to iconicity

47. Pleasures and publicity

48. la paperson's "A Third University Is Possible"

49. The humanist resistance to general law

50. Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon's "Permanent Crisis"

51. The study of a unique object

52. Objects, lifeworlds, and "the social"

53. Appreciating generalism

54. The relationship between particularity and generality

55. "How humanists see the world"

56. Roman Law and slave law

57. War and peace in the Indigenous Americas

58. Indigenous Americans and European torture

59. "Heterarchy"

60. The relationship between care and domination

61. Civilization and cities

62. Patriarchy and potestas

63. Reframing our perspective on human social experience