> downloads a japanese film
> comes with a subtitle "cool"
> film starts 😂😭

what you can’t prevent and can’t deny you can at least fetishize

In the algorithmic hypercapitalist ad revenutopia, your phone is the real sissy hypno.

Stop saying we can turn all philosophy into math.

Descartes already tried that and ended up not being sure if he had hands.

Damn you Nietzsche

Nothing had changed. Their lives had been expended in cheerless labor, their wills broken, their intelligences numbed. Now they were in the earth to which they had given their lives; and slowly, year by year, the earth would take them. Slowly the damp and rot would infest the pine boxes which held their bodies, and slowly it would touch their flesh, and finally it would consume the last vestiges of their substances. And they would become a meaningless part of that stubborn earth to which they had long ago given themselves.

John Williams Stoner

Such a weird, creepy movie, that's somehow pretty charming

“The subject hallucinates his or her world.

These illusory satisfactions are obviously of a different order than the satisfactions that find their object purely and simply in reality. A symptom has never sated hunger or slaked thirst in a lasting manner, unless accompanied by the absorption of food or drink.

The very reversibility of a neurotic problem implies that the economy of satisfactions that were involved in it were of a different order, & infinitely less tied to fixed organic rhythms, even if they command some of them.”

Jacques Lacan