notebook from february

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1. M. Gessen on state terror

2. The toll of generative AI

3. "No to life"

4. The "suicide right"

5. Grok as an "epistemic weapon"

6. Resonance-based discourse

7. Monique Allewaert's "Ariel's Ecology"

8. Sholto Dobie

9. Kameron Hurley's "The Stars Are Legion"

10. Nick DiLiberto

11. Decline in newspaper jobs

12. Elites vs intellectuals

13. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's "Childism"

14. George Duby's "total sphere of history"

15. The presumption of an "evident" body

16. The origins of the "modern body"

17. Perspective and the art of fencing

18. "Professional distortion of the body"

19. Bachelard and "the imagination of matter"

20. The "history of corporeality"

21. The "magic of the body"

22. The loss of the body's "social vitality"

23. The "meta-musician"

24. Meta-music and meaning

25. Dialogic sound

26. Two kinds of dexterity, for (meta-)musicians

27. Music that supplies no market

28. Cage and improvisation

29. AMM axioms

30. The color and texture of sound

31. Corneilus Cardew's magical rituals

32. Taoism and improvisation

33. Working with intuitive response

34. The "primal concern" of music

35. China's lead in technology

36. China's lead in "fundamental research"

37. Leopold Aschenbrenner's "Situational Awareness"

38. Sound and meaning

39. "Relational" memory

40. "A person is a person through other persons"

41. "Generating Sound & Organizing Time"