Fopling

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Recovering philosophy poster, slowly morphing into an obscure film poster. I make food and drink too.

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Fopling@fopling· Jun 26

Whenever I read Anti-Oedipus I am amazed at how freudomarxist Deleuze and Guattari actually are. They are a little less Orthodox than the Frankfurt school, but not by as much as you might expect.

It's the meme format that goes: top text "Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture" bottom text "They're the same picture"
The two pictures are Theodore Adorno on the left and Gilles Deleuze on the right.

Fopling@fopling· Jun 3

A comic book panel showing the soldiers, one is aiming a bazooka towards something outside the panel. The caption reads: A bazooka, designed to pierce the armor of a tank, is aimed at the computer...

Fopling@fopling· May 22

I'm afraid I had to skip the apostrophe, it looked terrible.

The Waffle House font but it says "Hegels Bagels"

Fopling@fopling· Apr 13

Sort of marginal, but I'd argue Brandom is in the analytic tradition.

A picture of Robert Brandom edited to have laser eyes

Fopling@fopling· Mar 31

I tried making sourdough baguettes. Extremely pleased with the results! I ate both of them today, sandwiches for every meal. I don't regret it, they were unbelievably good.

Two baguettes sitting side by side on a wooden cutting board

The end of the baguette cut length ways to show off the crumb. It is loose with plenty of big holes

Fopling@fopling· Mar 28

I'm upset that the 5-minute baguette recipe is so much better than my higher effort attempts. I'm really happy with how these came out

Two baguettes side by side on a cooling wrack

The end of one baguette has been cut off and then cut in half to show a nice open crumb

Fopling@fopling· Mar 24

Half star reviews of my Letterboxd Top 4

The Lighthouse: bad. So so bad. I couldn't get through the whole film. The characters are so empty. There isn't a single conversation you can follow. There is no plot or anything to keep you engaged. It's trying to be unsettling but in an extremely unsuccessful and shallow way. What a waste of black and white film.

Mother Joan of the Angels: that was a hard watch. I was wondering when I'll turn it off. Forty-five minutes of my life I'll never get back.

The Forbidden Room: 2 hours of silent cinema inspired comedy bits complete with title cards and sound, the only problem being how blatantly unfunny it is. It's also ugly.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man: I have no words. Will never watch anything Japanese ever again

Fopling@fopling· Feb 28

Seems this paper is relevant to the discourse of the day today. I'm not sure I totally agree with the conclusion Amy Berg comes to, but I love how well she illustrates how difficult it is to actually justify this duty we largely feel we all have.

A screenshot of a philpapers page showing the abstract for the paper Is There a Duty to Read the News? By Amy Berg, published in Journal of Moral Philosophy. The text of the abstract reads: It seems as though we have a duty to read the news – that we’re doing something wrong when we refuse to pay attention to what’s going on in the world. But why? I argue that some plausible justifications for a duty to read the news fail to fully explain this duty: it cannot be justified only by reference to its consequences, or as a duty of democratic citizenship, or as a self-regarding duty. It can, however, be justified on the grounds that we have a positive, imperfect duty of respect for strangers, even when our actions don’t affect them directly. Reading the news is a key way, sometimes the only way, that we can respect those who are strangers to us. I close by considering some of the implications and limitations of this duty.

Fopling@fopling· Feb 26

I was aiming for funny, but this one came out true unfortunately

A fake headline attributed to Allister Heath: Our failed elites would rather destroy Britain than abandon Nick Land

Fopling@fopling· Feb 26

How I feel every time I get confused reading Of Grammatology

A fake headline attributed to Allister Heath: The catastrophic reality of Derrida is finally dawning on the British public

Fopling@fopling· Feb 26

These headlines are too plausible when you use the names of philosophers.

A fake headline attributed to Allister Heath: Labour's Marxist obsession with Hegel is a historic disgrace

A fake headline attributed to Allister Heath: Britain's obsession with Kant has turned us into an international laughing stock

A fake headline attributed to Allister Heath: How Aristotle became the ultimate weapon of the anti-British establishment

A fake headline attributed to Allister Heath: Starmer's pathetic capitulation to John Rawls has humiliated our great nation

Fopling@fopling· Feb 24

The closest I got was briefly owning a hoodie like this before giving it to the girl I asked out to a school dance.

Front and back of a hoodie made to look like Link's outfit from the Legend of Zelda games.

Fopling@fopling· Feb 17

Boris Strugasky talking about the difficulties he and his brother faced publishing Roadside Picnic. I thought these sections were still descriptive of attitudes you see today.

Life is no finishing school for young ladies. Everyone speaks the way he is made. The protocol chief, Dr. Guth, speaks differently from Palivec, the landlord of The Chalice, and this novel is neither a handbook of drawing-room refinement nor a teaching manual of expressions to be used in polite society.

It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything. The only people who boggle at what is perfectly natural are those who are the worst swine and the finest experts in filth. In their utterly contemptible pseudo-morality they ignore the contents and madly attack individual words.

It didn’t even cross our minds that the issue had nothing to do with ideology. They, those quintessential “bloody fools,” actually did think this way: that language must be as colorless, smooth, and glossy as possible and certainly shouldn’t be at all coarse; that science fiction necessarily has to be fantastic and on no account should have anything to do with crude, observable, and brutal reality; that the reader must in general be protected from reality—let him live by daydreams, reveries, and beautiful incorporeal ideas. The heroes of a novel shouldn’t “walk,” they should “advance”; not talk but “utter”; on no account “yell” but only “exclaim.” This was a certain peculiar aesthetic, a reasonably self-contained notion of literature in general and of science fiction in particular—a peculiar worldview, if you like. One that’s rather widespread, by the way, and relatively harmless, but only under the condition that the holder of this worldview isn’t given the chance to influence the literary process.

Fopling@fopling· Feb 17

The city street curls in on itself
Folded back, and back again
A twisted strip of space
Infinity contained, compacted

Endless aether above the spires
Beaten to gale by winged transit
Endless ocean below the foundations
Roiling waves dance and crash

I stand at the center
The whole metropolis before my eye
Only one of millions
Nestled in the hand of the divine

Fopling@fopling· Feb 14

Happy Valentine's Day. I'm celebrating with coffee without cream (not coffee without milk)

A cup of black coffee in a disposable cup and a copy of the book "On Truth and Untruth" a collection of Nietszche's writings on truth

Fopling@fopling· Feb 14

First time attempting baguettes. Not a complete success, they refused to split where I scored and instead split all along the side. Still I'm overall happy

Two long loaves of French bread next to each other on a cooling wrack. One is shorter than the other.

Fopling@fopling· Feb 9

Not in any cluster, a lone wolf some might say. Torn between the rival factions of gay leftists, weird leftists, and funny leftists, yet staying aloof in a cool way.

A pink circle labeled "@fopling" on the edge of a few different clusters. The ones labeled on screen are "American Left-Wing Media & Comedy" to the left of me, "Queer Leftist Artists & Shitposters" directly below me, "Leftist Queer Community" to my right, and "Weird Internet Left" below and to the right.

Fopling@fopling· Feb 7

Messed up that Michael Moore has retroactively acquired the gift of prophecy.

The poster for the film Canadian Bacon. It depicts a boot with the Canadian maple leaf about to step on the statue of Liberty

Fopling@fopling· Feb 1

Roger Ebert both loved sex and had little to no imagination for it. In a way we all now have a trace of the cyborg sexuality of Crash, even Ebert himself in his mediated experience of it through film.