notebook from september

1. Wendell Berry's "The Loved Ones"

2. Symposium for Human Differentiation

3. The "paleo alliance" and the "new fusionism"

4. The stateless market society

5. 1994: Herrnstein and Murray's "The Bell Curve"

6. Sam Francis' "why race matters"

7. Lynn and Rushton's cranial studies

8. 1991-92: Emergence of right-wing populism

9. Hans-Hermann Hoppe

10. "Climate theories of racial origins"

11. "The nation" vs. the State

12. Thomas Moynihan’s Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History. [x]

13. "The Camp of the Saints"

14. Capitalism and the Far Right

15. Peter Brimelow and "reactionary internationalism"

16. 1994: Proposition 187

17. Wilmot Robertson's "The Ethnostate"

18. Ludwig von Mises and the question of borders

19. Wilfrid Sellars on the "aim of philosophy"

20. Avgi Saketopoulou's Sexuality Beyond Consent

21. The (bygone) conservative interest in open borders

22. Irving Kristol and anti-elitist thinking

23. "Designer immigration"

24. "IQ racism"

25. Criticisms of forensic "science"

26. Naomi Alderman on the skills of human discernment

27. AI vs the skills of discernment

28. AI and the skills of research

29. The humanities and the anxiety about knowledge production

30. The focus on particularity in the humanities

31. "The heresy of paraphrase"

32. "The singularity of a cultural object"

33. Kant, art, and objects

34. Libertarians vs. the welfare state

35. The general intelligence researchers

36. "Postfascist race science"

37. Racial identification and the genome

38. "Debt milleniarianism"

39. Starting points for a history of neoliberalism

40. Places to research neoliberalism

41. American skepticism about the academy

42. Political goals of contemporary anthropology

43. Caroline Levine's "The Activist Humanist"

44. Libertarianism and gold (coins)

45. "Auripatriotism"

46. Anne Anlin Cheng's "Ornamentalism"

47. Determining judgment vs. reflecting judgmen

t48. Kant and the universal pattern of beauty

49. 1958: Computer vision

50. "Atlas of AI"

51. Simon Critchley's "Heidegger Thinking"

52. How voters view capitalism

53. The Far Right and the "flight to safety"

54. Covid conspiracists on the Right

55. Richard Hanania

56. Curtis Yarvin

57. The "cognitive elite"

58. "New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics"

59. The multidisciplinary humanist

60. Sociology texts found at OpenSyllabus

61. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's "Dictee"

62. Forces fucking us over right now

63. Francois Bonnet's "The Infra-World"

64. Seth Dickinson's "Exordia"

65. Leif Goldberg's "Lost in the Fun Zone"

66. "We are all humanists now"

67. Beans Velocci's "Sex isn't Real"

68. Kant, purposiveness, and beauty

69. Spivak and the "singular" literary case

70. The work of art and the "possibility of singularity"

71. Ernst Mayr's "The Growth of Biological Thought"

72. Style and spirit of place

73. Art periods, formal elements, clothing and objects

74. Bernard Rudofsky's "Are Clothes Modern?"

75. Important twentieth century writing about fashion

76. Kenneth Clark's "The Nude"

77. Musk and government

78. "Techno-sovereignty"

79. Peter Thiel and the privatization of sovereignty

80. Thiel and inequality

81. Thiel and competition

82. "Muskist motifs"

83. "Geoeconomics"

84. Rem Koolhaas on the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC)

85. Shoshana Zuboff's "surveillance capitalism"

86. William Davies' "reaction economy"

87. Hayot on human psychology

88. Toward a philosophy of the human

89. "Social being" and one way to discern it

90. Kantian responsibility toward the real

91. Kyla Wazana Tompkins' Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot