I’m a Philosopher. Don’t Ask Me to Always Be Deep.
There are better ways to communicate.
I have received an RR decision which includes the phrase ‘brilliantly written’ among more challenging but fair feedback. I realise this is the only phrase that I’m really scanning for in reviews (which obviously can only be read at all with eyelids ajar). I’m like ok ok but what about the writing? I’m not sure I’m suited to academia.
Near kings x and the crowded chatty table is starting to be physically painful so I’m randomising Spotify liked songs. Then karma police pops up and I swear I haven’t heard it since 1997
I mean “It occurred to me that a certain rearrangement of people’s daily planning might seem, in less rarefied air than is breathed at 120 South Spring, rather a great deal to want, but so impenetrable was the sense of higher social purpose there in the Operations Center that I did not express this reservation.” is pure sociology of monsters
I hadn’t appreciated how infrastructural a writer Joan Didion is. I’m sure this excuses me from reading big infrastructure thinkers
I mean ‘a case study in the architecture of limited possibilities’ 🔥
Cold War Steve
Théo Bourgeron
Olivier Godechot
Mike Torr