Basically, the taboo against it comes from a Hadith that says the prophet cleaned out a bowl that a dog was eating out of so a person could eat out of it. And that led the jurists to conclude dogs were impure and haram 🙄

One of the four major schools of Sunni jurisprudence, the Maliki school, will let you own a dog.

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We are all Hasan Piker’s dog under late capitalism.

Indiana Jones is a fantasy about being a professor with no admin duties

I feel like people should start thanking philosophers for their service, the way they do for military members. & philosophers should get discounted movie tickets, get a discount at restaurants etc just like military members

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This is described in René Daumal’s “Mount Analogue.” It’s called peradam.

Part of the reason ideologues tend to feel uneasy about literature and art is because writers and artists are meant to be observers, meanderers, commenters, gesturers — not necessarily "men in the arena." They definitionally can't have too much skin in the game because it

Was wondering who coined the term “soulmate.” Apparently, it was Coleridge in 1822. (Though the notion could be said to go back to 3100 BC, when the god Atum made the gods Shu and Tefnut as separate parts of one soul).

Northrop Frye’s definition of myth: “The union of ritual and dream in a form of verbal communication is myth.” Found that really interesting.

PFAS-free is a big deal in semiconductors. Getting rid of “forever chemicals” seems like a clear win, right? Turns out it’s probably greenwashing: 🧵1/10

Nick Land began as an English philosopher in the 1990s associated with the “Warwick School” of accelerationism—a blend of Deleuze, Guattari, cybernetics, and late-Marxist theory that sought to push capitalism to its breaking point rather than resist it. At that stage, he was a

“This is what Friedrich Nietzsche knew, and what today’s liberal humanists will too often deny: if you knock out the pillars of a sacred order, the universe itself will change shape. At the primal level, such a change is experienced by people as a deep and lasting trauma, whether

Faulkner was the better novelist; Hemingway was the better short story writer. Faulkner’s talent was for elaboration; Hemingway’s was for compression.

You know what helps convert the Void into something vaguely approaching Being? Underlining sentences. Makes you feel productive.

Yeats, the greatest poet of the last 175 years or so, thought otherwise:

Always good to read @SamBuntz.

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Really interesting take on what the internet does to travel by Sam Buntz! I think the implications of his observations are really intriguing; that, phenomenologically at least, to change space is to change time, even if it’s virtual space, and thus to change time is also to

@kelly_erin_ The Irish short story master Frank O’Connor wrote a study of the short story entitled “The Lonely Voice.” He argues that short stories have always specialized in conveying human loneliness, whereas the novel typically presents a social world. You could definitely find a PDF.

One of my favorite things I’ve seen on here. I think about it all the time.

Honored to see both my essay on @Greg_Gerke's novel for @the_met_review and @sambuntz's superb essay on Nomadism for @r0manticon featured in today's @realclearbooks... along with what looks like a killer convo on America's Game between @RossBarkan, @Perez_Writes, and

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From the first pages of Paul Kingsnorth's new book, Against the Machine. My favorite living author and philosopher.