Theodore W. Ornament
@grundlegung.bsky.social
self-positing and decreation
Pinned
it time for a thread of books I have read this year
...starting with Joyce's Ulysses. Outstanding, difficult, disorienting, impossible, inventive, too clever for its own good and funny as hell. This is an absolute must read for anyone who loves great literature.
...starting with Joyce's Ulysses. Outstanding, difficult, disorienting, impossible, inventive, too clever for its own good and funny as hell. This is an absolute must read for anyone who loves great literature.
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Why does Neil Breen walk like that?
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Why does Neil Breen walk like that?
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Lovely review of my new book @engelsbergideas.bsky.social
Schopenhauer's philosophy of hope
A new biography shows how Schopenhauer’s philosophy of universal suffering might offer surprising grounds for hope.
engelsbergideas.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Lovely review of my new book @engelsbergideas.bsky.social
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der juradtudent martinus ludher als ihn 1 gewitter nicht aus dem leben geyeetet hatte
theologie in dem fall
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
der juradtudent martinus ludher als ihn 1 gewitter nicht aus dem leben geyeetet hatte
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Musk’s utopia won’t happen. The real future is much darker. Whoever controls electricity, compute, software and robotics will hold absolute power and once they have fully automated labor, they won’t need the poor at all.
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Musk’s utopia won’t happen. The real future is much darker. Whoever controls electricity, compute, software and robotics will hold absolute power and once they have fully automated labor, they won’t need the poor at all.
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This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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flirting with queers as Gaeilge like god intended
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
flirting with queers as Gaeilge like god intended
Adorno:
Die türen haben keine klinken btw
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Adorno:
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Wir feiern heute das Hochfest Christkönig, das uns im Angesicht politischer Tyrannei auf die Fragilität menschlicher Herrschaft und unser Hineingenommensein in eine nicht-irdische Ordnung verweist: „Heute noch wirst du mit mir im Paradies sein.“ (Lk 23,43)
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Wir feiern heute das Hochfest Christkönig, das uns im Angesicht politischer Tyrannei auf die Fragilität menschlicher Herrschaft und unser Hineingenommensein in eine nicht-irdische Ordnung verweist: „Heute noch wirst du mit mir im Paradies sein.“ (Lk 23,43)
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Excited that my paper ‘Staatsräson as State Racism’ is part of this forthc. issue on ‘German Memory Politics at a Crossroads’
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
New German Critique: Forthcoming Issues
Widely considered the top journal in its field, New German Critique is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German studies.
ngc.arts.cornell.edu
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Excited that my paper ‘Staatsräson as State Racism’ is part of this forthc. issue on ‘German Memory Politics at a Crossroads’
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
"Die traditionelle Christologie schwebt zwischen einem Zuviel und einem Zuwenig, zwischen den beiden Klippen des Eutychianismus und des Nestorianismus."
Kasper, Walter. Das Absolute in der Geschichte, S. 540
Kasper, Walter. Das Absolute in der Geschichte, S. 540
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"Die traditionelle Christologie schwebt zwischen einem Zuviel und einem Zuwenig, zwischen den beiden Klippen des Eutychianismus und des Nestorianismus."
Kasper, Walter. Das Absolute in der Geschichte, S. 540
Kasper, Walter. Das Absolute in der Geschichte, S. 540
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To Live and Shave in L.A. -- The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg (2002)
November 22, 2024 at 2:23 PM
To Live and Shave in L.A. -- The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg (2002)
"Similarly, the question of moral rights, which plays a major role in much legal-philosophical scholarship on civil disobedience, seems politically irrelevant. A philosopher who possessed a perfect theory of moral rights would still be at a loss in the face of the vast majority of citizens
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"Similarly, the question of moral rights, which plays a major role in much legal-philosophical scholarship on civil disobedience, seems politically irrelevant. A philosopher who possessed a perfect theory of moral rights would still be at a loss in the face of the vast majority of citizens
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“Don’t bother my friend. He’s dead tired.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“Don’t bother my friend. He’s dead tired.”
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This is real. From grok.
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is real. From grok.
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Incredible headline.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Incredible headline.
💦
November 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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“Sooner or later, one has to take sides, if one is to remain human.”
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Sooner or later, one has to take sides, if one is to remain human.”
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Whatever in creation exists without my AI prompt exists without my consent.
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Whatever in creation exists without my AI prompt exists without my consent.
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You could not make this up. Now, because UK transphobes are so obsessed with toilets - any woman or girl that bigots think do not look like women or girls, can be banned from using toilets! The bizarre ‘guidance’ was based on transphobia but will now impact all women & how feminine they look*
"Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look. The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash" [Times]
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
You could not make this up. Now, because UK transphobes are so obsessed with toilets - any woman or girl that bigots think do not look like women or girls, can be banned from using toilets! The bizarre ‘guidance’ was based on transphobia but will now impact all women & how feminine they look*
All skeets of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
All skeets of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
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Very deep article www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Nick Fuentes Has Officially Breached the MAGA Gates
How the right’s crisis over US support for Israel has provided the white nationalist with the opening he needs to be welcomed into the MAGA fold.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Very deep article www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Immer wieder befremdlich, wie wenige Leute für guten Journalismus zahlen wollen und dennoch erwarten, dass ihnen Produkte der eigenen Arbeit kostenlos zur Verfügung stehen. Das ist in fast keiner anderen Branche (mir fallen etwa noch künstlerische Berufe ein) denkbar. Wovon sollen wir leben?
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Immer wieder befremdlich, wie wenige Leute für guten Journalismus zahlen wollen und dennoch erwarten, dass ihnen Produkte der eigenen Arbeit kostenlos zur Verfügung stehen. Das ist in fast keiner anderen Branche (mir fallen etwa noch künstlerische Berufe ein) denkbar. Wovon sollen wir leben?