Notes from September 2026

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1. Wendell Berry's "The Loved Ones"
2. Symposium for Human Differentiation
3. The "paleo alliance" and the "new fusionism"
4. The stateless market society
5. 1994: Herrnstein and Murray's "The Bell Curve"
6. Sam Francis' "why race matters"
7. Lynn and Rushton's cranial studies
8. 1991-92: Emergence of right-wing populism
9. Hans-Hermann Hoppe
10. "Climate theories of racial origins"
11. "The nation" vs. the State
12. Thomas Moynihan’s Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History.
13. "The Camp of the Saints"
14. Capitalism and the Far Right
15. Peter Brimelow and "reactionary internationalism"
16. 1994: Proposition 187
17. Wilmot Robertson's "The Ethnostate"
18. Ludwig von Mises and the question of borders
19. Wilfrid Sellars on the "aim of philosophy"
20. Avgi Saketopoulou's Sexuality Beyond Consent
21. The (bygone) conservative interest in open borders
22. Irving Kristol and anti-elitist thinking
23. "Designer immigration"
24. "IQ racism"
25. Criticisms of forensic "science"
26. Naomi Alderman on the skills of human discernment
27. AI vs the skills of discernment
28. AI and the skills of research
29. The humanities and the anxiety about knowledge production
30. The focus on particularity in the humanities
31. "The heresy of paraphrase"
32. "The singularity of a cultural object"
33. Kant, art, and objects
34. Libertarians vs. the welfare state
35. The general intelligence researchers
36. "Postfascist race science"
37. Racial identification and the genome
38. "Debt milleniarianism"
39. Starting points for a history of neoliberalism
40. Places to research neoliberalism
41. American skepticism about the academy
42. Political goals of contemporary anthropology
43. Caroline Levine's "The Activist Humanist"
44. Libertarianism and gold (coins)
45. "Auripatriotism"
46. Anne Anlin Cheng's "Ornamentalism"
47. Determining judgment vs. reflecting judgment
48. Kant and the universal pattern of beauty
49. 1958: Computer vision
50. "Atlas of AI"
51. Simon Critchley's "Heidegger Thinking"
52. How voters view capitalism
53. The Far Right and the "flight to safety"
54. Covid conspiracists on the Right
55. Richard Hanania
56. Curtis Yarvin
57. The "cognitive elite"
58. "New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics"
59. The multidisciplinary humanist
60. Sociology texts found at OpenSyllabus
61. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's "Dictee"
62. Forces fucking us over right now
63. Francois Bonnet's "The Infra-World"
64. Seth Dickinson's "Exordia"
65. Leif Goldberg's "Lost in the Fun Zone"
66. "We are all humanists now"
67. Beans Velocci's "Sex isn't Real"
68. Kant, purposiveness, and beauty
69. Spivak and the "singular" literary case
70. The work of art and the "possibility of singularity"
71. Ernst Mayr's "The Growth of Biological Thought"
72. Style and spirit of place
73. Art periods, formal elements, clothing and objects
74. Bernard Rudofsky's "Are Clothes Modern?"
75. Important twentieth century writing about fashion
76. Kenneth Clark's "The Nude"
77. Musk and government
78. "Techno-sovereignty"
79. Peter Thiel and the privatization of sovereignty
80. Thiel and inequality
81. Thiel and competition
82. "Muskist motifs"
83. "Geoeconomics"
84. Rem Koolhaas on the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC)
85. Shoshana Zuboff's "surveillance capitalism"
86. William Davies' "reaction economy"
87. Hayot on human psychology
88. Toward a philosophy of the human
89. "Social being" and one way to discern it
90. Kantian responsibility toward the real
91. Kyla Wazana Tompkins' Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot

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