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Writer. Learning to die in the Anthropocene. Teaches @notredame. RT=schizoid howl.
We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe. My next book, IMPASSE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE LIMITS OF PROGRESS, forthcoming in August 2025 from @stanfordpress sup.org/books/impasse
Idiocracy is coming.
over the next few years a majority of the population will outsource their taste, their opinions, their thoughts, their work, and ultimately their lives to language models. the great cultural norming is coming, you will be unbelievably powerful if you resist model capture
Coming from @stanfordpress August 5. Pre-order today sup.org/books/literary…
Before I forget, this month marks the 5-year anniversary of my debut book: THE HOUSE OF THE TREE OF SORES! Many thanks to everyone who's read and/or reviewed it over the years. Still very fond of this review by James Pate: tskymag.com/2022/09/paul-c… #IKEA #Sweden #Poetry #Books
i don't want to hear about modernity anymore. it's beyond old news. don't you know the gods are back. that everything is enchanted and haunted now, and there are omens and signs everywhere. come on. look up, look ahead.
heard an achingly beautiful song on the radio so I looked it up and it was by Ween
IMPASSE is a Next Big Idea Club "Must-Read" for August. Pre-order it today! nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/next-…
Happy 133rd Birthday to Walter Benjamin who was born on this day in Berlin
It’s rly astounding how biological determinism is today’s dominant ideology. “Everything is firing synapses.” A truly vulgar materialism that cannot think the radical negativity of the unconscious, cannot think the rupture of the event, cannot think the intimacy of spirit.
"The world is getting hotter, faster." nytimes.com/2025/06/26/cli…
The rate of global warming is accelerating.
This is Gus. He was caught sitting at the kitchen table while home alone. His motives remain unknown. 14/10
"Most New Age prophets and profiteers derive whatever systematic theology they have to the scheme set forth in Science and Health: Only the spiritual world is real; the physical world, including our mortal bodies, is an illusion."
Have a pleasant Sunday! And a little peace and quiet! Franz Kafka, 1913.
I made a thing! sup.org/books/literary… Coming soon from @stanfordpress
Dearest, don’t let me disturb you, I’m only saying goodnight.. Franz Kafka, 1912.
"Anyone who is today asking about the future of humanity and about the methods of humanization wants to know if there is any hope for mastering the contemporary tendency towards the bestialization of humanity."
TLDR: ChatGPT makes you dumber. According to this recent study on the use of AI in writing, LLM users showed reduced neural connectivity, struggled to accurately quote their own work, and consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.…
Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures! 🧵