july

hell in melbourne

whoever doesn't reciprocate this love is reluctantly allowed to stay on the principle of hospitality; whoever doesn't even acknowledge this love is excommunicated on first principle. If "death is the no-response" (Levinas), then whither social death?

re "love for humanity", humanity itself is a community of love insofar as love transforms difference into what will be juxtaposed by the reigning universal, the (new) Human as occupying/grounded/acting—as being-present. however

@boguswaves1 @nobodydrove

As alienation discourse reappears: I don't actually think alienation is all that good a concept as it appears to me (though I'm happy to be shown otherwise) that there is an assumed essence that one is alienated from and I reject essentialisms.

@melbriderx sucks unfortunately

@mutualcreation yahs

white people be like you gotta check this video out haha

Taking the opportunity to shamelessly plug a study I wrote about the role of the bee motif in Western philosophy after looking into where Marx got this from nodrivers.substack.com/p/the-works-of…

I thought marx was an internationalist? then what’s all this “alien nation” stuff?

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so what does one actually have to accept to be a Marxist

@TheRealVarnVlog I got the question from the interview you had with Drumm on Youtube lol

This is actually difficult to answer.

@peaweenus yesss may 28th

@mutualcreation Omgggg i love rochelle jordan I didn’t even know she was coming ????

does anyone in melbourne gaf about rochelle jordan, i need at least one other person to go to her concert with 😭

The Savage Detectives is basically Larping: The Book, and its fantastic

@boguswaves1 Been a while since I’ve read BG&E but I think he talks about bad vs evil and you are drawing from that? I think that’s definitely a cogent analysis from an insightful thinker but ig I’m also interested in how further secularization since the late 19th century changes things up

@mutualcreation (I'm also drawing this mostly from nietzsche's critique of christianity which then also implicates Kant and his critique's as christian)

If you call things evil I just assume you're a Christian

@boguswaves1 of course, but it’s typically rare on this site

@mutualcreation And yes, I always appreciate what you have to say and your position and I hope that my disagreement is taken in good faith and a friendly manner!

@boguswaves1 just thinking oriented by my recent delving into political theology which has been influential on me the past year. so i can’t point to specific texts but im excited for @CapenerSean ‘s course on evil that’s upcoming this year, so maybe check out his papers

@mutualcreation Though, I am curious where your position comes from and I would love to read more about it if you have any texts to recommend!

@boguswaves1 I still have some reservations but I see where you are getting at too. My point is actually less so that evil isn’t christian (u are most likely right, or at least abrahamic), but whether this is exclusive to “evil” n to what degree. anyways, always a pleasure discussing w u.

@mutualcreation I see what you're getting at. But I'm not so certain that the common usage in christian countries has carved out the divine, the world beyond from evil. I think it still exists within it whether you or I like it. I think it still informs how the word is deployed

@boguswaves1 you could also say there might be residue theological connotations in our uses of “oppressive” so secularized that we don’t even notice it! at least for me, it’s interesting because when i hear oppressive i conjure a lot of biblical stories too, exodus for example

@boguswaves1 I think it’s a too clean divide of what secularization is. secularization doesn’t take some words and leave others alone, you could say nowadays the associations of evil in common usage is much more akin to “egregiously bad” then “eternal” or “other world”