I optimize, therefore I am capable of ascending #Looksmaxxing

the looksmaxxing subject imagines himself as the master of his own embodied meaning, even though the standards by which he evaluates himself have already been produced by racial history, platform metrics, and sexual commercial interests.

OOOO I COOKED

time of irritation: 6:32 pm

Clavicular and other looksmaxxers are indeed the modern day Byronic heroes that are nonetheless compelling to the communities that circulate them: blackpilled and genetically doomed. Like Harold, the looksmaxxing subject often claims to have seen through the “normie” illusion. In this essay I will…

do you think Clavicular knows the concept of Hegelian recognition and just doesn’t care?

been thinking a lot about affect and its intersection with Marxist philosophy and structuralism and got to thinking how madness can be weaponized by ISAs when orientations are removed…anyway, here’s how I applied that to Benjamin Poindexter :)

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Asked my library if they could fax me something and they apparently don’t have a fax machine???

I know you’re supposed to make the theory fit the evidence and not the other way around but it really feels like Gobineau predicted looksmaxxing

Safe to say that this ambiguous distinction had now completely collapsed in the age of A.I. and C*atGPT with how much people rely on it for thinking, writing, and even intimacy.

Life imitates art I guess…

How do we measure intelligence in the modern day?

18th/19th-century: by skulls and calipers/cranial capacity
20th-century: measured by IQ tests
21st-century: faces measured by an algorithmic and forum-based aesthetic analysis #Looksmaxxing

I was supposed to be reading Winckelmann but I just couldn’t stop thinking about Foggy Nelson and mercy

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I was thinking about how to tell my thesis advisor I didn’t want to read Rousseau but then I read it and it’s actually super useful to my methodology and now I have to lock in #NotSuperGeekedButLockedIn

Now that I have some experience with critical theory, I went back and rewrote my Daredevil essay on substack :)

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