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HEGELIAN DIALECTICS

I cant really wrap my head around it totally but I’m reading a bool that uses this method a lot so I’m trying to understand

@royallmonarch

5d ago

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reading philosophy

i know philosophy is always seen as pretentious and boring, and some of it is, but we are SO privileged to have access to a written history dating back millennia of the pursuit of understanding humanity. the fact that we have wanted to understand what it means to be human so badly that we have been writing about our theories since the moment we created written language is a philosophy in and of itself. find what studies of thought you relate to the most! marxism, nihilism, absurdism, existentialism, feminism, whatever! find the beauty in thought! philosophy does not always have to be 800 page books of some old dead white guys dense musings. plenty of novels cover philosophical issues, like piranesi by suzanna clark. reading philosophy, in my experience, helps expand your empathy and understanding of the human condition while helping you discover yourself as well. read with purpose! it's a magical thing. please share your favorite philosophical texts you've read with me :) i'm always looking for new ones <3

@sbonifazi

Jan 8, 2025

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Plato

I have two philosophy degrees so I guess this isn’t that niche for that area. But I have a Plato tattoo. Plato’s Symposium (the Rowe translation) is my favourite of his works, closely followed by the Phaedrus. He’s so silly and weird and gay and i like that. My masters thesis was a metaphilosophical look at why Plato and Simone de Beauvoir wrote fiction - which was pretty stupid tbh because it meant my research material was like a million books and I cannot read a million books. We may blame Plato for the evil that is Western Analytic philosophy, but that’s so funny to me when he was essentially writing little plays about his teacher and friends. If you’ve only attempted The Republic and were like what the fuck, I don’t blame you. Most of his dialogues are really short, that one was just him trying to write a treaties or whatever, bless.

@mouse

Apr 5, 2024

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THE PULSE OF THIS WILDLY UNDERAPPRECIATED CITY

Sometimes theres an implicit stank put on my city; on the East Coast there’s a kind of New York Supremacy. People think of Baltimore as a failed state backwater, a curiosity at best. It can be tough living here sometimes, to be sure. But Bmore has, however, easily the most vibrant, exciting, original, diverse and ambitious music and art scene of any small city in the East and from what I can tell, in the entirety of the country. At any rate, this breakout hit from Tate Kobang is quintessential Baltimore popular art. The style of minimalism with hard pulsing snare claps and the parsimonious use of sampled groove bits (which, that’s all Bmore Club style, distinctly), obviously the lyrics too and the settings of the video which tell a story without telling a story, it’s genuinely one of my favorite hip-hop songs, and you gotta watch the video.

@odradek

Apr 24, 2025

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WEB DUBOIS’ BEAUTIFUL HAND DRAWN DATA VIZ FROM THE 1890s

This shit is worlds cooler than anything Data for Progress does, no offense to DC homies tryna do the good work for that goofy org

@odradek

Apr 22, 2025

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A GOOD DATE

Eating at a restaurant is a terrible way to meet someone for the first time with the object of romantic involvement. It’s awkward, formal, no matter what there’s going to be weirdness spoken or otherwise about the check, it’s not interactive, your joke reserves dry up, the format requires both parties to learn either too much or too little about a person too quickly. Eating a full restaurant meal loads you up with fatigue and slows your rhythm, gums up your jouissance. Etc. Better this: assuming you live in a city, meet at a park, walk around, go in stores and galleries intermittently, talk whilst you interact with the world, it’s life affirming, it’s not stupidly pointlessly expensive, and it feels like youre sharing an adventure, it just naturally loosens a person up to be more open, allowing you mutually to get to know each other’s “energy” or whatever much better. I think I’ve been on exactly one first hang-out first date that happened at a dinner restaurant for dinner — only one that went any further than losing $100 in a night, and it was thanks largely to getting partially sloshed beforehand that I managed it well. Other than that, it’s always been some organic thing that just happened. Oh also: don’t start the date in an art museum. Are you insane? First hangout ever and you want to go to a place with an atmosphere of stilted reverence where at best you have to whisper banter, and even then you don’t know each other well enough to know how much making fun of things is going to endear or repel, etc. Same with a movie date although if you’ve had any good text or phone interactions, there’s always the old “my leg is on your leg now” gamble. Last and only time I started a first date that way we left as soon as we realized that (1) some Almodovar movies are boring as fuck and this was one of them and (2) we were more interested in touching each other than watching the painfully overwrought characters in the silent venue touch each other on screen. Picnics are acceptable and encouraged too. Have fun and be safe!

@odradek

Apr 30, 2025