dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“A new Theresa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventual life, any more than a new Antigone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial: the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is forever gone.“ 020
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We got it all: communist phronesis of self-critique for revolutionaries in defeat, nested dialectical-biological dissolutions of the individual, setting up a speculative deduction of homosexuality, dialectical-logical vanishing acts, & our forays in materialist history of philosophy! tap in freaks 06016
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫Critical Theory Working Group @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026MARGIN NOTES 2 IS OUT! Featuring original contributions from J. E. Morain and CTWG alongside translations of texts by Georg Lukács, Hans-Jürgen Krahl, Julius Schaxel, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno—all appearing here in English for the first time! ctwgwebsite.github.io/projects/3_p... 👇🧵 16740
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026A great essay - well supported by its engagement with the inimitable 'Dictionary of Untranslatables' (edited by Barbara Cassin). 075
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Etienne Gilson on the role of the teacher for St Thomas Aquinas: far from an isolated, intellectual pursuit, the work of teaching is both contemplative and active, employing both theoretical and practical reason to mediate the truth to oneself and others. 091
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“Sometime I want to understand every kind of way any one can have the feeling of being distinguished in them and every kind of thing that can give any one a feeling of such distinction of such virtue in themselves inside them.” Me too, Gertrude Stein, me too. 010
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“The disputed questions of the thirteenth century include few formal syllogisms but breathe the spirit of a very sincere search for truth. […] Demonstration was the work of reason, not of authority” (from introduction to Aquinas, Truth, vol. I, xvi). 030
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I dreamt last night that I was about to watch The Muppets Ring Cycle. Siegmund, Sieglinde, and Siegfried were to be played by these bozos. I think we couldn’t get the subtitles working, and then I woke up. What could this mean? 160
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫Critical Theory Working Group @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It's the Countdown: For Margin Notes vol. 2, James Crane has collected and translated a series of texts by Horkheimer and Adorno related to the former’s unrealised project to write a book on dialectical logic. 0146
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I think about this point by Adorno so often of late. 424485
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"What actually happens when we read the words on the page, look up the key terms, push against the ideas in a text, scan a bibliography, find the sources, identify a conversation, and put down our own thoughts in language?"defector.comHumanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | DefectorFor many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ... 012
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫jackie ess @essj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026the eclipse is sort of interesting but I think something much more interesting happens every night: the sun is blocked not by the moon but by the earth itself. it sort of goes round behind it. don't ask me how I know 1152
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 13/08/2026“One can conceive of writing infinitely on past texts, or at least I can. [...] There would be an activity of proliferating commentary, branching out, recurrent, which would be the true writing activity of our time.” (Barthes, Grain of the Voice, p. 148). 051
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"I believe that the state of consciousness which would exemplify the Absolute Idea is love, since in love we have a state of harmony in which neither the subject nor the object can be considered as determinant" (McTaggart, 'Commentary on Hegel's Logic'). 050
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 29/07/2026In recent news, I became Mister Dr Greg! 💘 090
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Tidied up the writing desk 📖✍️ 0121
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫steph @fkareynolds.bsky.social · 21/07/2026don't watch the anime if you haven't read the manga.. 0346
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 17/06/2026from a handful of short sketches Adorno wrote in the late 1940s on problems in moral philosophy after the decline of the revolutionary communist party 1143
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Geocities 'encouraged us to see ourselves not as passive consumers or content generators, but as workers actively building a shared environment. As platforms evolved — and we were reconfigured into users — our labour became invisible.'overland.org.auWe were all workers on GeoCities - Overland literary journalGeoCities remains an important reminder that collective labour on the internet is not new — and that recognising ourselves as workers is the first step towards organising as such. 0209
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 09/05/2026My latest on the Preface to Hegel's Phenomenology -- turning from the opening critique of method to the outlines of a new system, and the necessity of a phenomenological exposition thereof. tinyurl.com/y4wp3b8e 080
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Reflections on four books recently read, by Marion Milner, Doris Lessing, Robert Burton, and Antonia Pont — on methods of organising oneself. tinyurl.com/yuyddcx5 042
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 04/04/2026The latest on Hegel's Preface to the Phenomenology -- this time turning to his polemic against Schelling and the debate over metaphysical first principles. Whew! tinyurl.com/y8znk3sy 181
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 21/03/2026My attempt at an accessible introduction to the thought of Erich Auerbach and his history of literary technique -- focused on the question of how the everyday became fit for serious represention. tinyurl.com/y7vwn755 0100
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Notes on the rational ambitions of literary criticism, its systematic tendencies, and its presumption of an intelligible order in the literary object. tinyurl.com/39r8vh7d 161
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Nicolas Poussin, A Dance to the Music of Time (c. 1634-36). 060
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 06/03/2026A commentary on Hegel’s concept of history as totality and the task of philosophy in revolutionising historical consciousness. tinyurl.com/2s4e5j7z 0102
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 06/02/2026A new commentary on Hegel’s criticism of intuition as the sovereign faculty of Romantic philosophy. tinyurl.com/3tusbzat 031
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Cosimo Rosselli, "Madonna and Child with Three Angels" (c. 1478-1480). 000
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Paul Klee, "A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast" (1920). 161
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Paul Klee, "It Weeps" (1939). 0164
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Paul Klee, 'Forgetful Angel' (1939). 019574
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 02/01/2026The first in a series of commentaries on the Preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology, beginning with the problem of philosophy’s proper genre, style, and structure. tinyurl.com/yeura63v 0121
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 02/01/2026The first in a series of commentaries on the Preface to Hegel’s Phenomenology, beginning with the problem of philosophy’s proper genre, style, and structure. tinyurl.com/yeura63v 0121
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Some thoughts on some books 📚 open.substack.com/pub/thewaste... 091
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 22/12/2025“As something presupposed, reason and faith are abstract, empty representations; for them to become concrete they must be explicated and viewed as unfamiliar” (Hegel, History of Philosophy, II.132). 051
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 19/12/2025On Hegel's mixed metaphors, the mismatch of word and image, and making the best of abstraction. tinyurl.com/3s4y2s48 1174
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 12/12/2025A new essay on Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, the conflict of reason and imagination, and Burton's attempts to escape the universal folly that his work diagnoses and performs. tinyurl.com/4hsw4aux 0132
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 12/12/2025A new essay on Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, the conflict of reason and imagination, and Burton's attempts to escape the universal folly that his work diagnoses and performs. tinyurl.com/4hsw4aux 0132
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 07/12/2025A new essay on Gillian Rose’s final poetic works, unhappy consciousness, and the Pearl poet’s representations of the absolute. substack.com/home/post/p-... 0153
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 07/12/2025A new essay on Gillian Rose’s final poetic works, unhappy consciousness, and the Pearl poet’s representations of the absolute. substack.com/home/post/p-... 0153
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 25/11/2025In case you missed it -- a new essay on Gillian Rose, Arthurian myth, and the philosophy of shame: open.substack.com/pub/thewaste... 064
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 25/11/2025In case you missed it -- a new essay on Gillian Rose, Arthurian myth, and the philosophy of shame: open.substack.com/pub/thewaste... 064
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫Kitchen Sink Technomystic @bobcluness.bsky.social · 22/11/2025meanwhile Greg @thewastedworld.bsky.social has a new blog up and running. Go and subscribe to that instead! bsky.app/profile/thew... 022
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 22/11/2025The Wasted World thewastedworld.substack.com?r=nfkpl&utm_...thewastedworld.substack.comThe Wasted World | Gregory Marks | SubstackEssaying in criticism. Click to read The Wasted World, by Gregory Marks, a Substack publication. Launched 6 minutes ago. 051
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 21/11/2025A new essay on the contradictory duties of tragedy and the comedy of shame in Gillian Rose's Love's Work and the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: thewastedworld.com/2025/11/21/s...thewastedworld.comThe Law of Shame in Gillian Rose’s Arthuriana and The Green KnightThe final chapter of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work is its most fragmentary. After several chapters in the confessional mode, Rose diverts from the discussion of her life to a series of short reflectio… 183
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social · 21/11/2025A new essay on the contradictory duties of tragedy and the comedy of shame in Gillian Rose's Love's Work and the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: thewastedworld.com/2025/11/21/s...thewastedworld.comThe Law of Shame in Gillian Rose’s Arthuriana and The Green KnightThe final chapter of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work is its most fragmentary. After several chapters in the confessional mode, Rose diverts from the discussion of her life to a series of short reflectio… 183
Reposted by dr greg is historicising ✍️💫James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 30/09/2025The fragments, composed in parallel with the final drafts of Dialectic of Enlightenment (possibly outlines for its unwritten sequel), challenged everything I thought I knew about 1940s Critical Theory—been working on getting these ready to share for about a year! 03611