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Bifo's new book looks like it could be really good

May this find you.

The academic paper is a dead format walking. AI does lit reviews better. AI will do (is doing)peer review. Users will skim AI summaries. The real science is the question, the pre-analysis plan, and the analysis. The 30-page paper is just vestigial wrapping paper.

It’s funny how we are constantly having the “should writers have to read?” discourse, when the question should be “why are you even writing stories if you don’t like them?”What made you want to create something you’ve never enjoyed?

Why does Bob Dylan occupy a higher cultural tier than Paul Simon? They are at worst, the same level songwriter, and Simon can actually sing Simon’s career also spans Simon & Garfunkel AND his solo work Simon also makes more global music (South Africa / Brazil influences)

Eating in Japan really made me believe that tipping culture is so stupid and unnecessary but eating in Australia makes me wish I had a way to punish the waiter

Absolutely stunning passage by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the preface to Phenomenology of Perception on how phenomenology approaches historical investigation. The preface as a whole is one of the best statements on the promise and the breadth of phenomenology that I’ve come across.