#Simulacrum

Alexandra Wilson

I haven't watched a single streamed opera. I realise now that it's about GOING to see opera, as an event. The anticipation beforehand. The hush as the lights go down.

https://twitter.com/AndhraPortal/status/1163246923836350464 Thanks to ICP for publishing this study of Swadeshi scholarship comparing Western epic poetry and Mahakavya. - In remembrance of Ravi Joshi ji who was so supportive. https://twitte

The subjective theory of contracting has been lost to us with honor culture and the buggywhip. Only a formalist simulacrum remains. General background here. https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1128384623065669632?s=20The objective theory

Johnnemann 🌹

Synecdoche, NY. Just going to hire a ton of actors to pretend to be theme-park goers, employees, executives, all the rest, 24/7https://twitter.com/MrCamW/status/1318386497221922816 I am obsessed with that movie, the weird

If you're reading this thread and you've not seen SovCit/FotL before, all the stuff about crowns and oaths and homophones seems random. What holds it all together (apart from self-interest)

On the contrary, it is precisely the function of white supremacy that Asian Americans can only imagine their Asianness through a handful of memes that imitate and exaggerate Asianness. https://twitter.com/jboyounglee/status/1381412882320134

SchrödingersChoice

surfingthelight

1. Nothing is real until language makes it soLanguage defines reality. Language describes how you will perceive, evaluate and make decisions about your world.The masters of reality are those who

hombre sobre el computadora

man_on_computer

There is really no reason to be too upset over Trump; he is rather flavorless and vain. He could easily be led around as the People's avatar by appealing to

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

Something I'm learning through all of this is that if you just proceed through the tumults of life with clear and principled integrity, people without as much principle and integrity

Matthew Sheffield

Thread: Joe Rogan and rise of pseudo-expertise 1/xAs you may have seen, @Spotify's new hire has been telling young adult listeners not to get a COVID vaccination.No one should take

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Ramadan always seems to make my faith weaker rather than stronger, every year, and I don’t know what to do about it other than ‘be awake at 1am consumed with

Alright, gonna make a comprehensive thread that has all the info so people can catch-up with what just happened-Olympus-Ash Psamathe:Back at release, we were told of Psamathe, the planet Lifeline

Mediaeval Catholic Railway Baroness

clairequaclaire

Here’s a late night thread no one wants: what’s the most evil kind of magic (Specifically in D&D 5ed)?The stock answer is usually necromancy. After all, desecration of a corpse

Hello everyone! With 'Legacy' rapidly approaching and appearing to be a significant next chapter in the Apex story, I thought I'd do a simple thread on how we got here;

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TellYourSonThis

Wisdom Mega Thread.Let's go.1): Be magnanimous to friends, civil to strangers and ruthless to foes; furthermore, know who’s who. 2): Form requires consistency to bring chaos to order.Fluidity is formless,

i know steve bannon, i met him back in the day. we talked theory on community accretion in online spaces. he took some of that theory and applied it to