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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Computer please recreate the Primal Scene so I can finally have access to the jouissance that has been missing my whole life.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hilarious to be chided about 'celebrating' Oct 7 when Zionists have thrown a thousand day fête of bullets and bombs in rapturous jubilee, still ongoing. Celebration against celebration, our joy works to bring yours to an end.

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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can't have a suite of policies that favour investment over dwelling and expect another outcome. You can't deregulate rents and zoning through Airbnb and expect a different outcome. Politics and media have been writhing over this for decades — it's very simply state-subsidised exploitation.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The defining image of the decade. Everytime I see it I'm in awe. May we all be this free one day.

Bulldozer breaking through the barbed wire fence on October 7th.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Art show called Serving Kunst

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What the fuck use was your 'humanities'?

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wheel of Structuralist Samsara

From Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy's Title Of The Letter

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They don't tell you how repairing your own broken stuff makes that stuff feel way more intimately yours than buying a replacement for the broken thing.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a really cool way to appreciate the structure of Hegel's dialectic: that it ping-pongs between the individual and the universal, but, by means of the operations of identity and difference. It's chiasmic: X.

Yet many readers of Hegel have stated that he above all prefers the categories of individual/universal, and it is absolutely true that he does... but he prefers them in a very specific way that points to the difference between the content of the dialectic and its form or formal operations. For Hegel, individual/universal does not name an operation of distinction making (or “determination”); rather, they point to a mode of content. These terms can be aptly described as the content of the dialectic itself in all its phases. Identity/difference are, however, as Hegel uses them, operations, processes of distinction making that frequently transform individuals into universals (as above), or universals into individuals, and for these reasons have no content on their own: they are processes of determination. // The entire PoS ... from its first chapter to its last, exhibits an overarching chiastic structure,identity/difference appearing first and last and individual/universal emerging in between, appropriately enough, as the products of dialectical mediation.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dialectics? Oh that's easy it's just the opposite of eristics. That should clear everything up.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Weekend Read (on the specifically medieval - and thus not ancient - origins of Hegel's dialectic):

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"The only possibility of thinking a true anarchy coincides with the lucid exposition of the anarchy internal to power. Anarchy is what becomes thinkable only at the point where we grasp and render destitute the anarchy of power." - Agamben, The Use of Bodies.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The stars are ignorant of 9am yet somehow I'm supposed to know this.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Philosophy has not yet reckoned with how Australians say Plato like Play-Doh.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Maybe the only conception of paradise remotely palatable (Weil, Gravity and Grace):

Communion is good for the good and bad for the wicked. Hence, damned souls are in paradise, but for them paradise is hell.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The bargain we struck with Capital was that it could hollow out production - ship it offshore, render it precarious - so long as it left us consumption. We could surround ourselves with Stuff and Films and Food and Cruises and this would be the last untouched Paradise. +

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Essay titled 'Content as Form' has this been done?

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Increasingly convinced that the only real way to make sense of race, is as an erotics first and foremost:

Race is the preeminent pleasure of our time. Whiteness is not a color; it is a way of feeling pleasure in and about one's body. The black body is needed to fulfill this desire for race-pleasure. In our colorlined world, the white body is a form of desire and the black body is a form of pleasure // The peculiar pleasure of race is, to use the language of Sade, a "pleasure of comparison," that is, "a pleasure which can only be born of the sight of wretched persons." The colorline produces the wretchedness which we experience as race. It is the colorline, not nature, which makes people white or black.

Race is a form of pleasure in one's body which is achieved through humiliation of the Other & then, as a last step, through a denial of the entire process. We deny it through a discourse in which "race" appears as a thing created by nature and not as a practice developed by a culture. By denying their fetishization of "race," whites create a culture in which they are both masters and innocents.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

istg if you replace like 2 words you can turn Weil into Badiou

"God [The Event] has, therefore, only the power to reward those efforts that cannot be rewarde din this world, those efforts carried out in the void; the void attracts grace. Efforts carried out in the void constitute the operation which Christ [Mallarmé] calls 'laying up treasures in heaven'." - Passage from Weil's The Need For Roots

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What Rome was to Weil the US is to me lol

Such a conception as this was precisely in tune with the Romans' hearts and minds; slavery had permeated and degraded all human relations. They debased the most beautiful things. They dishonoured suppliants by forcing them to tell lies. They dishonoured gratitude by considering it as an softened form of slavery: according to their thinking, a person receiving a benefit forfeited some of their freedom in exchange. If it was a great benefit, it was customary for the recipient to tell the benefactor that they were their slave. They dishonoured love: for them, being in love was either to acquire the person they loved as a chattel, or, if that were not possible, to submit servilely to them to obtain carnal pleasures, even if it meant they had to share that person with ten others. They dishonoured their country in conceiving of patriotism as the desire to reduce all people who were not their compatriots to slavery. But it would be briefer to list what they didn’t dishonour. We would probably find nothing. Another thing they dishonoured was sovereignty.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One of the most straightforward takeaways of AP is an immediate suspicion over all uses of 'us' and 'we'. You gotta ask: do you really belong to this 'we' or are you being dragged into it by your ankle under the guise of solidarity and 'the future'?

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous" OK but what if everything is bad tho mr Foucault

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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Experience: I became a tapeworm

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Course on Economies and Circulation and we go over Mauss, Sahlins, Strathern, Kierkegaard, Weil, Bataille, Derrida, Baudrillard, Karatani, Fortunati, Irigaray, G. Rubin, Moten & Harney, C. Warren, and T. McDougall.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Fun reading exercise is to read Bataille and Weil together and pay attention to how each draws up two distinct economies - general and restricted, divine and terrestrial - and how this figures into their strangely similar distribution of concepts.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I keep returning, again and again, to this passage of Marriott's On Black Men, since yesterday:

"This is what the lynchers want. A memory, an imago, that will not go away. Not only the body, burned and stinking in the trees, but black men, women and children looking, and then looking away, from what the white men have done. 'Everybody was afraid' except the young back boy who, not knowing what to expect, keeps looking until he can see what has happened. something has been torn away and left lying on the ground, something private which confirms - as it seems, the tarred body cannot - that what has happened is a 'sin'. It's a vision which stays with this boy for the rest of his life - 'I can still see him hanging up like that' - a reminder of how fragile his possession of himself, his 'manhood', can be. The real difference between black and white men. ... The lesson with stay with you: blackness afflicted, mutilated, a fatal way of being alive." - David Marriott - On Black Men

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Soviet citizens having a debate about whether to reform the gulags or abolish the gulags.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Of Simone Weil it is said she died of love.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you tweak this just a little, then Homer's answer to the paradox of motion is simply that motion is possible because the Gods abandon you.

Text from Homer's Iliad: "Like a chase in a nightmare when no one, pursuer or pursued, can move a limb, so Achilles could not catch up Hector, nor Hector shake off Achilles. How could Hector have escapes the demons of death, had not Apollo come to him for the last time and given him new drive and fresh speed? Achilles too had been signalling to his men with his head not to shoot at Hector, in case someone else hit him and won the glory, and he came second.

But when they reached the springs for the fourth time, the Father held out his golden scales and, putting death that lays men low in either pan, on one side for Achilles, on the other for horse-taming Hector, raised the balance by the middle of the beam. The beam came down on Hector's side, spelling his doom. He was on the way to Hades. Phoebus Apollo deserted him..."

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Frank Wilderson III I love you

“My presentation shits on the inspiration of solidarity,” I told her.
“I don’t give a rat’s ass about solidarity.”
Dove was an Oxbridge-educated don, who held her head so high
as she scolded me she could drown in the rain. Her eyes widened
at the sheer derision of my words. What, she must have wondered,
happened to the friendly black face and those snowy teeth that had
flashed when she winked the day before?
“That is so terrible,” she groaned. “That is such a shame.”
She went on to tell me that she had recently heard Angela Davis
say that she had transcended the slave stature. She said this two or
three times and I was about to ask her if she had heard of any other
Black people when Ian Bryce ended the session and said it was time
for lunch. - Afropessimism, p. 187

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

find u someone who looks at you like the Briseis fresco in Pompeii

Briseis fresco, from the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of the very easy takeaways from reading Homer is that being the best won't save you. But supplicating to a God might.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Decolonizing critical theory (citing Fanon in a footnote)

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Bataille on mathematics against dialectics:

"Thus mathematics-whether higher or not-underwent, during the nineteenth century, an evolution that in every way was contrary to Engels's program; it eliminated every appearance of a dialectic. Rigor in demonstrations, noncontradiction in principles, constant accord with logic; those are the ends pursued, and on the whole attained, by mathematics. One could object, certainly, that new difficulties reappeared with set theory and that the transfinite could give rise to developments having the appearance of the dialectic. But the mathematicians' attitude (their practical effort) toward these new paradoxes is the same as their attitude toward the old ones: far from seeing them as the result of a superior mode of thought, they examine them with horror. A new labor of logical reduction starts. We need mention here only the work of Hilbert and the Polish school". - Georges Bataille, "Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Dedication page of George Ciccariello-Maher's Decolonizing Dialectics.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Entire government run by people covering for pedophile billionaires and they'll do Very Serious Soul Searching Discourse about the merits of this one Nazi merc.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Americans will pin even their shitty football failures on Trump because they're unable to admit the utter insipidity of their entire fucking country that runs from top to bottom. Without that fucking man they'd have to look themselves in the eye and that'd be too much.

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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Americans will watch themselves commit genocide for a thousand days and then say wow the metaphors of our society being rotten are really quite on the nose atm tehe

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