Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

So the Green Knight appears in the context of this as this figure of reciprocation and equivalence. Knick for knick, blow for blow, year after year, and so on.

Later on "The Lady" will pose an interpretation of greenness that is given without any irony from the film, so I think it's basically an endorsement of the filmmakers' perspective no the greenness of the knight.

Green, in the film, is associated with perspectives that are distanced from the mediation of desire. ...

I'm finally getting around to watching Green Knight. The movie's about the triangulation of desire. Very straightforward Girard stuff.

The King recognizes his lack of peers (either among his Saxon rivals or his court) & desires the company of his sister as a neer-peer: he triangulates this through Gawain. G "externally" mediates the King's desire. G himself wants to be one of the knights, to have his desire "internally" mediated through them.
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Today I fixed a car problem with the power of friendship.

@manav@brinjal.org Do tell. Is the horror derived from the treatment of important service as elective?

Shit.
I just realized that I'm not poor anymore and I should probably just give away some previously-unthinkable amount of money now.

"By modernity I mean the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent." ~ Baudelaire

The Internet has passed directly from world-ending Ice-9 to world-renewing ekpyrosis without pausing at any intermission on a temperate world-to-be ended.

2013 vibes: The Internet is Forever; anything you say to anyone you say to everyone; and the captains of industry are one masterstroke away from locking you into hyperreality forever.

2023 vibes: The captains of industry cannot stave off ketamine psychosis forever; Web2.0 collapse is so immense that Google may exhaust its strength saving web infrastructure; all these poasts lost like tears in rain.

@manav@brinjal.org v interesting. I have people in my circle who are going to be devastated when Goodreads and Evernote finally die from neglect

@manav@brinjal.org I would like to know more

It is kind of bizarre that the use of external objects as weapons should be so rare among living things.

@manav@brinjal.org there's something very interesting brewing here that I can't quite express... Like the old open-culture style hackers enjoyed "surfing" as a cultural metaphor of exploration that's reconcilable with cultural theory like the situationist method of «dérive» ... but some people think they can integrate the mechanized structuring of culture (through the algorithm) ... and maybe they can't?

When I talk to Friend A, I can hear about her feelings. When I talk to Friend B, I am reduced to audience for her handful of new and exciting self-diagnoses and am supposed to be a clapping seal for her every self-destructive decision.

I don't talk to Friend B anymore.

Friend A: sad about the way she has been treated by the people closest to her -> gets her shit together and changes her station in life -> finds new people

Friend B: suicidal about her disappointment in her own status -> treats everyone around her like shit -> gets bailed out by her mom -> restarts life with a heavily curated social circle that support her delusions of grandeur

You really, really want to be Friend A

It is much, much better to be sad / sorrowful / disappointed than to become psycho while avoiding those feelings.

In my view, it is better to be American than anything else. I would rather be American than anything else. And that's all that it is for Americans -- America and "anything else."

Democracy, Jazz, Pragmatism, and moonshots. I, for one, really like being American.