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“The love of what does not exist is stronger than death.”

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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Welcome…
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To all who celebrate (excessively)
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In honor of Georges Bataille’s 129th bday, I present to you, homegrown Bataille memes for your consideration:
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
“Common to all our most threatening troubled is one characteristic which might appear reassuring to a superficial eye, but is in reality the greatest danger: *they are conflicts with no definable objective.*  The whole of history bears witness that it is precisely such conflicts that are the most bitter.  It may be that a clear recognition of this paradox is one of the keys to history; that it is the key to our own period there is no doubt.” 

Simone Weil
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Soyjack Nietzschean cries: “Noooooo, Christianity is Platonism for the masses!!”

Chad Christian Platonist responses: “Yes.”
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Gee, really?
Umfrage: US-Bürger zweifeln an Trumps Religiosität

Eine wachsende Zahl von US-Bürgerinnen und -Bürgern zweifelt an der Religiosität ihres Präsidenten. Das ergab eine Befragung, die kurz vor Donald Trumps Verbalattacken gegen Papst Leo XIV. und der Publikation von KI-generierten Bildern, die ihn in der Pose eines Heilands oder gemeinsam mit Jesus Christus zeigten, durchgeführt wurde.

Online seit heute, 11.45 Uhr
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Laut der Umfrage des Washingtoner Pew Research Center gaben 70 Prozent der Befragten an, sie hielten Trump für nicht besonders oder überhaupt nicht religiös. Das sind acht Prozentpunkte mehr als im Oktober 2024. Wie das Pew Research Center Donnerstag mitteilte, stuften lediglich fünf Prozent der Befragten Trump als „sehr religiös“ ein, 24 Prozent als „einigermaßen“.

Selbst unter Trumps stärksten Unterstützern halten laut den Ergebnissen der Umfrage relativ wenige den Präsidenten für sehr religiös: nur acht Prozent der Republikaner und fünf Prozent der weißen Evangelikalen gaben das an.

Selbst für Unterstützer nicht „sehr religiös“
Gleichwohl meinen 43 Prozent der Anhänger der Republikaner und 49 Prozent weißer Evangelikaler, dass Trump sich für ihre Glaubensinteressen einsetzt. Unter den Katholiken vertraten 24 Prozent diese Einschätzung; 43 Prozent äußerten die Ansicht, der Präsident kümmere sich nicht besonders um katholische Anliegen.

Im Gegensatz dazu sagen Mehrheiten der Atheisten (76 Prozent), Agnostiker (70 Prozent) und schwarzen Protestanten (60 Prozent) – drei Gruppen, die traditionell eher den Demokraten zuneigen –, dass Trump sich nur wenig oder gar nicht für Menschen mit ihren religiösen Überzeugungen einsetzt.

Die Befragung wurde vom 6. bis 12. April unter knapp 3.600 volljährigen US-Amerikanerinnen und -Amerikanern durchgeführt.
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Time is a flat circle
Screencap of article.  Headline reads “Condoleeza Rice spotted going to the White House: Report”
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A passage from Simone Weil’s _The Illiad or the Poem of Force_:

“But the auditors of the Iliad knew that the death of Hector would be but a brief joy to Achilles, and the death of Achilles but a brief joy to the Trojans, and the destruction of Troy but a brief joy to the Achaeans.

THUS violence obliterates anybody who feels its touch. It comes to seem just as external to its employer as to its victim. And from this springs the idea of a destiny before which executioner and victim stand equally innocent, before which conquered and conqueror are brothers in the same distress. The conquered brings misfortune to the conqueror, and vice versa:

A single son, short-lived, was born to him.
Neglected by me, he grows old — for far from home
I camp before Troy, injuring you and your sons.
A moderate use of force, which alone would enable man to escape being enmeshed in its machinery, would require superhuman virtue, which is as rare as dignity in weakness.”
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Book check
Cover of Rudolph Bell, _Holy Anorexia_ (1987)
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“Christ in the Wilderness,” Kramskoy (1872).

Christ is depcited during his 40 days in the wilderness.  He sits on a stone in contemplation, hands clasped, eyes downcast, face evocative of both sadness and resolution.
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“Don’t yell at me guys!”
Captain Philips meme.  Pirate is wearing a maga hat.  Caption:  “Look at me.  I’m the snowflake now.”
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Psalm 5:8-13

8 Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness
    because of my enemies—
    make your way straight before me.
9 Not a word from their mouth can be trusted;
    their heart is filled with malice.
Their throat is an open grave;
    with their tongues they tell lies.
10 Declare them guilty, O God!
    Let their intrigues be their downfall.
Banish them for their many sins,
    for they have rebelled against you.
11 But let all who take refuge in you be glad;
    let them ever sing for joy.
Spread your protection over them,
    that those who love your name may rejoice in you.
12 Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous;
    you surround them with your favor as with a shield.
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Two guys riding the bus meme “Misery and Mysticism are related facts” captioned for both the happy and sad guy.
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Thinking about this movie again. Happy New Year.
Screencap from _Bad Lieutenant_ of Harvey Keitel kneeling next to a nun
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
mfw when they bring out the figgy pudding
Image of a “hungry ghost,” green skin, hunched, distended belly, flaming breath
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
“I hope this email finds you well…” How your email finds me:
Image of anchoress speaking to bishop through squint in her cell.
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Tech bros: “Calvin’s dilemma is an efficiency enhancement opportunity”
Calvin and Hobbes strip: Calvin is playing in a sandbox.  Hobbes asks “Do you have an idea for your project yet?”  Calvin replies: “No, I’m waiting for inspiration. You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.”  Hobbes asks” What mood is that?” Calvin replies: “Last-minute panic.”
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Meme based on a vintage car engine maintenance manual.  Illustration of young man pointing to engine block under the open hood of a car.  Title reads “Everything I don’t like is Mysticism: A Book For Basic Dickheads”. A quote from the young man reads: “This engine is mysticism.”
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“You will be haunted by three spirits.”
Portrait of GWF HegelPortrait of GWF HegelPortrait of GWF Hegel
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
AT LAST pop music is entering its Simone Weil phase
Lyrics from Rosalía’s “Divinize” which make clear reference to Weil’s concepts of beauty and original sin/temptation
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Got turnt all the way up tonite
Program for a performance of Handel’s Messiah
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“The poor wretch who kneels and begs for life is saying, unknown to himself: Leave me more time in which to become perfect. Do not put an end to me while I have had so small a part in the good.

How could anyone who loves God not listen to such a prayer?

Only God knows what happens if the man's prayer is not heard and he is killed.

The revelation to Noah: "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, of his life will I require it."

Fragment of pre-historic wisdom. It must contain an un- fathomably deep abyss of meaning. But what meaning? To be meditated.

The impossible in mathematical reasoning (the demonstration per absurdum, to which all the others can be reduced) and the never in moral life both transport us from time into eternity.

Negation is the passage into the eternal.”

-Simone Weil, New York Notebook
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
MFW Bithynian sacrificial animal merchants keep bugging me about how the Christians are gonna drive them out of business.
B&W image of Pliny the Younger
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
My AP history teacher gave me this album when I was 16. It was a jumping-off point into so much awesome music and has been a constant companion ever since. This one really hurts. RIP Jimmy Cliff.
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Garth Marenghi as analytic philosopher
Screencap of interview scene from “Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.”  Closed caption reads: “I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards.”
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
He walked so Zohran could run
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Passage from Simone Weil’s New York Notebooks regarding time as the expression og divine supplication
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
My niece drew a picture of me
Child’s drawing of a bald, crying face
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Gee, I wonder why he felt comfortable mentioning this to them?
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I have questions
Photo of a candle labelled “Smells Like Simone Weil.”
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Current project
“No Nearer to Flying”: Mountain Landscapes in the Writings of Simone Weil
W. Ezekiel Goggin, PhD
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
And are you married? “I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.”
Image of the Dharmachakra or “Dharma Wheel”
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
AT LONG LAST: implicit evidence that Trump is fundamentally in line with the condemnation of Origenism at the Synod of Constantinople.
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Girl was spittin
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thesis / Antithesis / Synthesis
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This required a parody of fascist aesthetics (its obsession with physical perfection and purity juxtaposed with its fascination with death). But it is also required a rejection of postivistic pretension and bourgeois “sensibility.” Andre Masson’s Acéphale drawing fit the bill.
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
There is a clear parallel between the parody of fascist aesthetics we see in Masson & Bataille’s acephalic man and Trump’s vile and dehumanizing doodle. Both function at the intersection of sovereignty, personhood, sex, & death. But the function at perfect cross purposes. More to come.
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Quote post with your own very dramatic (or otherwise) black and white selfie.
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Chagall, White Crucifixion (1938)
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Praying for this person 🥺
YT comment “Please god forgive me for discovering Alice in Chains in 2025 and not when I was born.”
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Banger
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Transcendental Subjectivity = a woman holding a mirror

Empirical subjectivity = the reflection of “Baby” from “Dinosaurs” looking back from mirror
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I took my Tinder Date to a Hegel reading group for Valentine’s Day
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Alice Lastname @alicelastnamephd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Happy birthday, Georg (his friends called him Wilhelm… but we ain’t friends!)
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