Symptoms

And to what end? In a kind of nihilistic symmetry, their dream of the perfect slave machine drains the life of those who use it as well as those who turn the gears. What is life but what we choose, who we know, what we experience? Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation, warm in the womb of the algorithm, nourished by hungry machines.

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

Tagore, in his introduction to Banabani (1926) [tr. Sanjukta Dasgupta]

Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay (1949)

Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay (1949)

Heinrich Heine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva_pseudohistory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffronisation

New Zizek movie screened at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival! Arguably the only good thing to have happened this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pervert's_Guide_to_Utopias

Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins (1940)

Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins (1940)

PPS/23, Review of Current Trends: U.S. Foreign Policy (1948)

Vol. I of the journal that established Lacanian psychoanalysis as a primary interlocutor with Marxism, structurralism and other discourses. Contains the fascinating paper by Miller, Suture which established the 'logic of the signifier'.

Gabriel Tupinamba, The Desire of Psychoanalysis (2021)

History is the object of a construction whose place is formed not in homogenous and empty time, but in that which is fulfilled by the here-and-now [Jetztzeit]. For Robespierre, Roman antiquity was a past charged with the here-and-now, which he exploded out of the continuum of history. The French revolution thought of itself as a latter day Rome. It cited ancient Rome exactly the way fashion cites a past costume. Fashion has an eye for what is up-to-date, wherever it moves in the jungle [Dickicht: maze, thicket] of what was. It is the tiger’s leap into that which has gone before. Only it takes place in an arena in which the ruling classes are in control. The same leap into the open sky of history is the dialectical one, as Marx conceptualized the revolution. Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History (1940)