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The Piedmont Post, Alabama, June 2, 1888

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L'anus solaire

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If Sharia “law” were practiced in the US (to some extent it undoubtedly is), it wouldn’t be law at all (since the US constitution has nothing to say about Sharia) so it’s purely a case of cultural convention in some communities, and not legally enforceable in any way. Is Trump threatening to ban Muslim culture? I literally have no idea what this is saying

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Nihilism is not… a pathological exacerbation of subjectivism, which annuls the world and reduces reality to a correlate of the absolute ego, but on the contrary, the unavoidable corollary of the realist conviction that there is a mind-independent reality, which, despite the presumptions of human narcissism, is indifferent to our existence and oblivious to the ‘values’ and ‘meanings’ which we would drape over it to make it more hospitable.

Ray Brassier, Nihil Unbound  (via 1109-83)

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Nepotism is professional favouritism based on family relations. But why would you have to network with members of your family?

“networking” is mostly just a way to rebrand nepotism as a skill

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Apparently orgasm is the only point where your mind becomes completely empty—you think of nothing for that second. That’s why it’s so compelling—it’s a tiny taste of death. Your mind is void—you have nothing in your head save white light.

Jeff Buckley (via thequotejournals)

objet petit a confirmed

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157/366 - Neo-Tokyo

by jared leopard

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Desire is constitutively unattainable by the Subject :)

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Badiou

Badiou has nearly finished writing his new theoretical book, the third book in the Being & Event series. I consider myself somewhat Badiouan (i.e. the use of mathematical structure to chart out a mind-independent ontology as with Ayache and Meillassoux) 

But I think he needs to ditch the guff about the “Four truth procedures of art/politics/science/love” etc. It’s a constant gimmicky refrain that gets in the way of serious mathematico-ontologising.

Also, the fundamental conceptual opposition in my eyes is between the discrete/digital/computational and the continuous - i.e., can physics be reduced to a mathematical framework of discrete structures, or does it necessarily depend on the weird continuity of the cardinality of the Real numbers (ala Badiou’s discussion of Cantor’s theorem)? It seems to me that Badiou leans far too uncritically on this assumption of Cantor. He totally neglects the modern constructivist tradition in maths (because he claims to hate constructivism).

But topos theory (which he attempts to make use of in Being & Event 2: Logics of Worlds) EASILY carves a space for constructivist axiom schemata (i.e. you can use a topos that simply disregards Aristotle’s Law of the Excluded Middle)

His commitment to the Infinite is also somewhat ontologically unfounded. 

If it turns out that physics can bypass Cantor and axiomatise a fundamental theory of realty as a set of computable theorems, I am absolutely ready to part ways with Badiou.

I would really like to clarify the connection between the Real numbers and the Lacanian Real - does Cantor’s theorem demonstrate that the cardinality of the reals truly IS the cardinality of the Real?

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Zizek (extracts from the “Less Than Nothing” book) on the distinction between the Potential and the Virtual in Meillassoux. I see echoes of Bergson and also Eli Ayache, i.e. the pure contingency before the “probability spaces” of axiomatised probability theory.

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What if war become a totally Virtual phenomenon (in Deleuze’s sense)?

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The physical battlefield of 2035. (Russia/China/NATO)

Out of shot: Drones, geopolitical subversion via permanent cyberwarfare and automated industrial sabotage.

The cycle is complete

100% fully automated abstract destruction without any loss of human life.

Alpha Strike Cover by flyingdebris

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Grand Hotel Taipei, Yang Cho-cheng, Taiwan, 1973

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