Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 19/05/2026It's another one of those things that gets overlooked when the university is blamed for this mistrust for not "speaking normal". Anti-intellectualism in our time is primarily a rhetorical effect of Fox, Heritage, PragerU etc, which need to hobble critical reflection in institutions. 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 19/05/2026My biggest Lingua Tertii Imperium reminder is seeing the continuity of Goebbels' 'Cultural Bolshevism' as 'Cultural Marxism' and then 'Wokeism' as fascists continue to demonize academics, medias, socialists and Trans folk. It's just so blatant. 100
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 16/05/2026"A net good," utilitarians argue, regarding the news of a "Blue Buffet" by local lunchlady. 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Never get between a woman and her sex fantasy! You kill the spirit! 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Assembling the diviners to throw bones on this one 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 04/05/2026It gives you a lil hermeneutic box to store traits in for people in your life but ime people let the box do the talking. Also the weekly/monthly predictions?? I have no hermeneutic of recovery to salvage that. 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I think you would appreciate 1000x Resist as literature, too, but not always the maps. And Suzerain you would maybe like theoretically if it were shorter. Thematically you would probably enjoy Cosmic Wheel of Sisterhood but it would maybe heighten your evil power. 010
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Games that I am confident would impress Edith Lunch: Scarlet Hollow, Undertale Games that I think Edith Lunch would appreciate: Life is Strange, Bloom and Rage Games I think Edith Lunch would like as short-form literature: Slay the Princess, This Game Will End in 206 Clicks 200
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 03/05/2026media.tenor.coma black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .ALT: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' . 040
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Is there a divide between theological and political postliberalism in the literature? 210
Reposted by Nico IsaiahTad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Free college would cost $80 billion/year. Or for $200 billion you can blow up Iranian kids, drive up gas prices, steer the empire into a ditch. Hard to say which is more “valuable” in the fucked up libidinal economies of desire 022
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Not to be overly Gramscian, but if evangelical analysis translates across media formats, why shouldn't other analyses matter? What if the 'reality of fiction' extends the importance of analysis intermedially? 000
Reposted by Nico IsaiahTad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I can’t believe “a whole civilization will die tonight” has entered the range of acceptable opinions on which people can just disagree. Death drive culture 073
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Every year on Easter I think about what it means for a group of organizers—after the execution of their comrade for sedition—to steal the body from Empire. 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Sometimes the hand of God moves you to a 24-hour breakfast spot 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 03/04/2026People are asking this! The world needs to know! 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I know a lot of students are using LLMs (I won't say AI) not only to write for them, but even to read. I have a student acquaintance who—when I told him my upcoming paper dealt with Hegel and Lacan—suggested he would plug it into ChatGPT. It's hard to see any positives to this trend. 010
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Gotta start handing out more quests. Adventures love a quest 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 24/03/2026This shows up in the recent game, as well. The player becomes a landowner/rancher and gets an elf servant that manages their expansive estate for free. It's hard not to read Harry Potter as a Tory fantasy. 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Turns out hosting military bases for the world's most militant country is not good for host countries or the troops stationed there! 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 21/03/2026It's nice being slightly above the poverty line. Ironic way to lose weight since you're not counting calories-per-dollar, and can eat things like salads. 001
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I was reading Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition and this book simply would not exist if the author read Hegel correctly. 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 18/03/2026It's so bizarre to me how much of philosophy is just people misreading Hegel. 100
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I find it hard not to look at the data on gray matter loss in regular LLM users and think of the evolution of smaller teeth and jaws in modern hominids after the development of tools for food processing. We can't offload cognition onto cybernetics without it involving a real loss to the individual. 020
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Polyglot tomato polyglot tomato polyglot tomato! 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 08/03/2026At a certain point Christians need to learn Revelation was written about a time that has long since past, that we know and do not suppose this, and that and that any attempt to bring it about again through bigoted violence places oneself among Christ's political adversaries. 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Don't read my comment to harshly David! It's really not that critical. 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 07/03/2026It is good that you generally avoid talking about idiocracy, because it is a bad movie. I think the US government is stupid by design, as settler-colonial governments must be to accomplish the aims of evil men, and not because of some weird eugenic plotline and love of crocs. 100
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 07/03/2026In ideology studies you get to read old French guys reading old German guys badly which is quite fun 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 07/03/2026My favorite annotated book is Talcott Parsons translation of the Protestant Ethic. He keeps some words in German that don't translate well. This frustrated the annotater more and more, escalating from exasperated punctuation marks to a middle finger and a "fuck you Talcott Parsons" in the margins. 110
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Counterpoint: I love me a bad, terrible, no good movie made by terrible people with no self-awareness. I crave this 😌 010
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Carl Schmitt is steeped in a surprisingly modern reading of Hegel, and anticipates modern ideological readings. Like Zizek with ideology, there isn't an outside to theology here. So we see nationalism as a 'secularized' theology as it is in Durkheim, but with that metaphysical connection. 110
Reposted by Nico IsaiahAndré Gagné @profgagne.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Rubio: “That entire regime is led by radical clerics who don't make geopolitical decisions. They make decisions on the basis of theology, their view of theology which is an apocalyptic one.” Again, the lack of self awareness is astonishing. THEY TOO make political decisions based on their theology. 55917
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 23/02/2026You'd think we could agree that cults for fantasy deities are religious but actually no. They gotta be transcendant/supernatural/superempirical/etc so most don't make the chopping block. 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I feel like religious studies folk would be less wrong if they reckoned with fantasy even remotely. Is a wizard's fireball not-magic because it is natural, explainable with arcane physics? Is a follower of Woedica not-religious if they understand the mechanics of her divinity? 100
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Smh and shaking my fist in a Northward direction 000
Nico Isaiah @poltergeists.bsky.social · 20/02/2026People are saying it, the word is getting out. This many people can't be all wrong. 000