notebook from october

1. The totality of art's social being

2. The limits of the ethical relation to the singular

3. 1973: The brain-computer interface

4. Tesla's price-to-earnings ratio

5. 2020: The "woke mind virus"

6. "Cyborg conservativism"

7. DOGE and mass deportation

8. The surplus of being human

9. The Renaissance attitude toward laughter

10. Umberto Grassi's "What God Kept For Himself"

11. Diagnoses and experience

12. Concealed bodies and bodily phenomena

13. The obsolete language of the experience of pain

14. What the sick of the past wanted from their doctors

15. "External flows" and "inner processes"

16. The eighteenth-century understanding of sex differences

17. Corporeality, culture, and sexual differentiation

18. "Unstructured osmotic space"

19. Motus and tonus

20. Ben Eastham's "The Floating World"

21. Deaths from the war on terror

22. "Impunity culture"

23. The American captivity narrative

24. Photographers named in Brian Dillon's "Affinities"

25. Walter Pater on aesthetic criticism

26. "The aesthete's attitude to essayism"

27. Taryn Simon's "Father Country I Do Love You"

28. Taryn Simon's "American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar"

29. Taryn Simon's "Contraband"

30. Taryn Simon's "The Innocents" and "A Living Man Declared Dead"

31. Cyrus Console's "Romanian Notebook"

32. The size of the gambling industry globally

33. Ian Hacking's "probabilistic revolution"

34. Emily Ogden's "On Not Knowing"

35. EMUUROM

36. The "Egocrat"

37. Reagan's (meta-)popularity

38. Post-post-material politics

39. "Inner flux" and "outer flux"

40. Noncorporeal causes of illness (in the past)

41. Sufferings "stuck" in the body (in the past)

42. The experience of personal body pain, then and now

43. The modern objectified body vs. the body of the Middle Ages

44. Our sense of womanhood is conditioned by history

45. Duden's "body history"

46. The sociogenesis of modern corporeality

47. Understanding the body

48. Leibniz, Descartes, and pain

49. 2005-06: The Detainee Treatment Act vs. the Military Commissions Act

50. Torture and hazing at West Point

51. 1993: Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations"

52. 2008: "Overseas Contingency Operations"

53. On the "blood-for-oil" thesis

54. 1934: "Growth"

55. Capitalism's dependence on growth

56. 1450-1650: Early capitalist city-states

57. The "autumn" of the Italian capitalist city-states

58. 1600: The "second cycle of material expansion"

59. Electricity consumption of data centers

60. Do TSA security measures work?

61. "Security" vs "safety"

62. Nineteenth-century British capitalism

63. 1870-1970: The major phase of capitalist growth

64. Arrighi on hegemony

65. "Financialization"

66. 1970s: Global collapse in stable employment

67. Statistics on informal work

68. On resentment

69. Prolonged low-intensity urban conflict

70. 2002-2003: Homeland Security and the rise of the Border Patrol

71. Border Patrol vs. "surplus" globalized workers

72. The size of Border Patrol / ICE

73. American deportations

74. Beck on the purpose of border surveillance

75. Syrian migration into Europe

76. Obama and the border

77. Parallels between Occupy and BLM

78. Alexis de Tocqueville on Americans' "only pleasure"

79. 2001: Authorization for Use of Military Force

80. 2001-2015: AUMF conflicts

81. 33 Thomas St / AT+T Long Lines Building

82. Companies cooperating with NSA surveillance

83. Priest and Arkin's "Top Secret America"

84. Was NSA surveillance successful?

85. Anwar al-Awlaki

86. The failure of American global leadership post-9/11

87. Occupy and public space

88. Militarism, racism, and the decline of hegemony

89. The perception that things have "gone wrong" in America

90. Mass shootings

91. 21st-century American economics

92. Standing Rock

93. Stop Cop City

94. Indigenous resistance

95. Magic and the "malleable texture of perception"

96. Tribal shamans and ecology

97. Illness, imbalance, and the "animate landscape"

98. Magical contact with the more-than-human field

99. "Every form is an experiencing form"

100. Spirits, and nonhuman modes of intelligence

101. Martha Rosler's "in, around, and afterthoughts"

102. Photographs and Surrealism

103. Recursive self-improvement in AI development