Notes from August 2026
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1. Incel activity and local economics
2. Collage as a "dirty medium"
3. "Nomothetic disciplines"
4. History and "ontological uniqueness"
5. Idiographic treatment of the unique thing
6. The challenges of practicing idiographic history
7. The impossibility of an idiographic science
8. Eliade and the "eternal return"
9. Johannes Fabian and "time-hegemony"
10. Peter Osborne's "The Politics of Time"
11. Ted Underwood's "Distant Horizons"
12. On being an "example of a process"
13. "The law and the event"
14. The mass subject
15. Public virtue
16. A reading list for an autofiction course
17. The style of late capitalism is "nothing"
18. "Chill" and the economy of passive listening
19. On friction
20. Musical labor in the culture of scale
21. "Kalon"
22. The "cosmogram"
23. "The most pertinent spiritual question" in Christianized cultures
24. Spinoza on Christ
25. The German Romantics and divine power
26. Kierkegaard's "Repetition"
27. Spinoza, God, and personhood
28. Romain Rolland
29. Reading order for Grant Morrison's Batman run
30. Defending humanities writing
31. AI and the "publishable unit"
32. Eytan Adar's guidance for students
33. Nick Srnicek's "Platform Capitalism"
34. The "reverse centaur"
35. Sarah Brouillette's "Content Machines"
36. "The Human Costume"
37. Statistics on retired Americans
38. Private equity and nursing homes
39. Public texts
40. Publication and "the public"
41. "Abstracting oneself in public"
42. Masculinity, femininity, and self-abstraction
43. Pier Paolo Pasolini on "tolerance"
44. The "minoritizing logic of domination"
45. "Minoritized subjects" and the counterutopia of consumption
46. From publicity to iconicity
47. Pleasures and publicity
48. la paperson's "A Third University Is Possible"
49. The humanist resistance to general law
50. Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon's "Permanent Crisis"
51. The study of a unique object
52. Objects, lifeworlds, and "the social"
53. Appreciating generalism
54. The relationship between particularity and generality
55. "How humanists see the world"
56. Roman Law and slave law
57. War and peace in the Indigenous Americas
58. Indigenous Americans and European torture
59. "Heterarchy"
60. The relationship between care and domination
61. Civilization and cities
62. Patriarchy and potestas
63. Reframing our perspective on human social experience

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