Tag: Camille Paglia

• On the vibe shift pt 2: Nameless / Faceless

  “The key contribution of angelicism01 is not artistic anonymity but artistic anonymity as a delivery system for extinction qua extinction into the cultural algorithm.”  Angelicism01 The Prince cried out for joy: ‘Good friend, I’ll giveWhat you will ask: guide me to where I live.’The man pulled back his hood: he had no face—Where it should…

  suspendedreason

  December 18, 2021

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  4chan, Camille Paglia, Dean Kissick, Erving Goffman, facelessness, femcels, Gossip Girl, masks, Pierre Bourdieu, Shia Labeouf, Vibe Shift

• Notes on the Inexact Sciences

  “Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer questions in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness.”

  suspendedreason

  August 30, 2021

  Essays

  art, Bruno Latour, Camille Paglia, Christopher Alexander, deception, ethnomethodology, fit, free will, generalized compatibilism, information logistics, Karl Friston, Ken Liberman, Kevin Scharp, literary theory, literature, Ludwig Wittgenstein, meaning, New Criticism, Pfeilstorch, Pierre Bourdieu, predictive processing, psychoanalysis, psychology, resonance, rhetoric, Sarah Perry, stamp collecting, Tal Yarkoni, the inexact sciences

• Positional pricing, positional leverage

  To understand positional leverage, we first need a theory of public belief. My contention is that—to give a “just so” story from our evolutionary history—humans have traditionally lived in relatively small communities, where individual opinion held some sway in group decision-making, if only by exerting tacit pressure on a chieftain or council of elders. (We…

  suspendedreason

  August 4, 2021

  Essays

  art criticism, belief, Camille Paglia, Game B, Jane Austen, metacriticism, music criticism, Pierre Bourdieu, strategic interaction

• Corpus as Concept: Poetic Sensibilities in Literary-Theoretic Discourse

  There are two parts to an argument I want to make but lack the qualifications: 1) showing poetry, and poets in large, express, across their corpus, a worldview or way of seeing; 2) showing that literary-theoretic discourse actively leverages poets as concept handles in meta-level discourse (discourse about discourse; that is, to talk about how…

  suspendedreason

  August 2, 2018

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  Adam Kirsch, Blake, Camille Paglia, Coleridge, defamiliarization, literary theory, poetry, schema, Wordsworth