Recently finished Spinoza’s Ethics

Working on Plath’s The Bell Jar

Just some routine preying upon the vulnerable nbd in our contemporary world

(Also rural - Canadian farmers)

Not sure if my mom’s place had indoor plumbing put in before or after she was born, but it’s close

My Functional Analysis & Perturbation Theory of Linear Operators textbooks 😅

this was written by Daniel Penny, whom they employ in spite of his having no relevant qualifications of any kind

Much less bonkers than you’d expect but this is what I was reading, and if you know a little bit about Marxism’s use of contradictions you can see why they’d be immediately making things very complicated by thinking about contradictions philpapers.org/rec/SEGGSB

But yes they are not literal contradictions

Wait I have something for this (what Marxists call contradictions are extremely analogous to things called contradictions in certain philosophical logics) bsky.app/profile/pseu...

My most arrogant belief is that if you had put me in a room with the analytic Marxists when they were starting on their journey they’d not call dialectics bullshit and they’d be much more positively disposed towards the early critical theorists

…response around the globe that you’ve mentioned, not anything about Canada’s capacity to resist