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Wheel of Structuralist Samsara

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

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Just struck me as Very Funny how there'll be an occasional viral post about how the Japanese have this Mystical Oriental Art of Kinsuuugiiii where they repair pottery and its like oh we have to exoticize stuff that humans have been doing since the dawn of time bc consumerism.

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

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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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

This makes for a fun rhetorical quip to those worried about anarchy: you already live under it, we just want a better grade of anarchy than what's currently on offer.

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

the anarchy of power making itself very very felt rn all over the place

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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

Don't need our enemies to be sent to hell; we'll simply force them into the paradise we'll create and which they'll find infernal because of the evil they haven't yet expelled in them. 😇

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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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Consumption was the last bastion of psychic compensation for world we allowed to wither around us. But they don't need even that any more.

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-asset stripping, holding tax bases hostage and in rocketships you'll never fly. The corrosion of consumption means that the 'life' part of 'work-life' balance has gone to shit too: the food is poison, the films & music & images are AI, the internet is bots, and nothing lasts.

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-is capital leaving even consumption for dead. The source of profits is simply no longer in that sphere: no need to invent the next ipod - you'll settle for yet another barely tweaked iphone - because profits are decoupled from Stuff. Instead, they're in corporate valuations and-

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It could tear down the forests and poison the oceans, but it would leave us our Things. This worked for a time because the bargain was sweet: we'd buy what Capital was selling, and the money would end up in their pockets anyway. But the dread feeling settling over everyone now-

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

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

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

Trying to think this together with Ghassan Hage's work (White Nation) on the intersection of race and nation: if race is a differential distribution of pleasures, then, elevated to the Nation, it becomes a (fantasy of a) differential distribution of expectations of obligations:

The violent nationalist act is not merely the act of any disempowered person, but also the movement of someone who in addition feels they *ought* to be more empowered. It is in this sense that this type of nationalist practice operates as a fantasy of empowerment. // We can see that, everywhere we turn, what we are faced with is not an actual, essentially White governmental nationalist, ruling over an already established national order where others are securely considered as objects. Instead, all those are *yearnings* that nationalists try to bring about in the very process of engaging in the nationalist practice. Most of all, however, it is a yearning to reconstitute themselves as true to the fantasy of the all-powerful nationalist in the homely nation and so on. Looking at it this way, nationalist practices embody a fantasy of the self as a fulfilled nationalist, more so than a fantasy of the nation, for in this yearning nationalists establish their very raison d'etre.

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

Passage is from Anthony Farley's The Black Body as Fetish Object.

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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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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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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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Having shared enemies is not enough to constitute an 'us'! Maybe you are my enemy too.

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

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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ooohhh new unachievable yearning unlocked

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.

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.