Peli Grietzer
@peligrietzer.bsky.social
Mathematized philosophy of literature
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Peli Grietzer
@peligrietzer.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Why poetry is a variety of mathematical experience | Aeon Essays
Machine learning theory is shedding new light on how to think about the mysterious and ineffable nature of art
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Last year I published my big essay about art, poetic knowledge, and the scientific image of mind, language, and nature: aeon.co/essays/why-p...
It makes me kind of sad that my work only ever gets formally cited in digital-media studies even though lots of literature and philosophy people seem to know and like it
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It makes me kind of sad that my work only ever gets formally cited in digital-media studies even though lots of literature and philosophy people seem to know and like it
Some of my core beliefs are: Marx, Carnap, and Wittgenstein are methodologically important, Hegel was on to something, 3rd Crit was on to something, Chalmers stuff isn't just confusion, comp cog sci is relevant, Symbolist Manifesto and Defense of Poetry were on to something
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Some of my core beliefs are: Marx, Carnap, and Wittgenstein are methodologically important, Hegel was on to something, 3rd Crit was on to something, Chalmers stuff isn't just confusion, comp cog sci is relevant, Symbolist Manifesto and Defense of Poetry were on to something
I do kind of believe Blackstar is Bowie coming to identify himself with Hegelian negation
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I do kind of believe Blackstar is Bowie coming to identify himself with Hegelian negation
I'm a modernist poetics literalist (believe the things modernist poets say poetry does are literally things poetry does)
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'm a modernist poetics literalist (believe the things modernist poets say poetry does are literally things poetry does)
As a Bowie person I feel sympathy for Milton people because they semi-hate Shakespeare the way we semi-hate Dylan
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As a Bowie person I feel sympathy for Milton people because they semi-hate Shakespeare the way we semi-hate Dylan
Randomly ran into this very sad first-person essay about dying early. I feel like a late 20th century overcorrection against existentialism left people like me with a false sense of having just outgrown this stuff www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Randomly ran into this very sad first-person essay about dying early. I feel like a late 20th century overcorrection against existentialism left people like me with a false sense of having just outgrown this stuff www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Lolina/Inga Copeland just released a Gossip Girl themed track... Not joking when I say I'm digging my nails into the back of my hand rn to make sure I'm not dreaming
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Lolina/Inga Copeland just released a Gossip Girl themed track... Not joking when I say I'm digging my nails into the back of my hand rn to make sure I'm not dreaming
Whoever named leche de tigre did a great job
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Whoever named leche de tigre did a great job
Closest I've been in my life to understanding the Cambridge Capital Controversy
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Closest I've been in my life to understanding the Cambridge Capital Controversy
I think the core EA/rat belief is that doing a first-pass formal or empirical or quantitative take on something already gives you a lot more action-guiding knowledge than you had before. I basically disagree with this belief
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I think the core EA/rat belief is that doing a first-pass formal or empirical or quantitative take on something already gives you a lot more action-guiding knowledge than you had before. I basically disagree with this belief
I feel like there's a hard-to-describe personality disorder shared exclusively by like 60% of Marxists and 80% of Wittgensteinians
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I feel like there's a hard-to-describe personality disorder shared exclusively by like 60% of Marxists and 80% of Wittgensteinians
Reposted by Peli Grietzer
Reposted by Peli Grietzer
No company, that is, except the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an "extraordinary moment", but there was some "irrationality" in it.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
No company, that is, except the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
It's fine to look down on romance/romantasy now that there's isekai and litrpg (male-coded) to look down on for the literal same reasons
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It's fine to look down on romance/romantasy now that there's isekai and litrpg (male-coded) to look down on for the literal same reasons
'John Cale reading a Swedenborg vision excerpted by Borges over a soundtrack for an Andy Warhol film' is such a reddit-for-a-certain-kind-of-person concept but it's so good youtu.be/KHyzNJGwWWQ?...
John Cale - Movement 13 (A Theologian in Death)
YouTube video by rainyseasons22
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November 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
'John Cale reading a Swedenborg vision excerpted by Borges over a soundtrack for an Andy Warhol film' is such a reddit-for-a-certain-kind-of-person concept but it's so good youtu.be/KHyzNJGwWWQ?...
I think it's great that for 22 episodes the writers of Sex & the City couldn't find a single thing for Aidan and Carrie to talk about so whenever they are alone they're just giggling at each other
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I think it's great that for 22 episodes the writers of Sex & the City couldn't find a single thing for Aidan and Carrie to talk about so whenever they are alone they're just giggling at each other
Feeling the kind of deep stupidity and hatred that usually means a migraine's coming up. Pray for me
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Feeling the kind of deep stupidity and hatred that usually means a migraine's coming up. Pray for me
A short overview of my essay On Eudaimonia and Optimization, which I link at the thread's end
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
A short overview of my essay On Eudaimonia and Optimization, which I link at the thread's end
Me sitting backwards on a chair to talk to high school class: 'Destroyer + Kara Walker was the KATSEYE of their day, in that a corporation randomly put them together and we're all better-off for it'
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Me sitting backwards on a chair to talk to high school class: 'Destroyer + Kara Walker was the KATSEYE of their day, in that a corporation randomly put them together and we're all better-off for it'
About to zoom-interview the experimental choreographer Dana Michel, who's a pretty good friend of mine, and I'm still nauseatingly nervous about it
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
About to zoom-interview the experimental choreographer Dana Michel, who's a pretty good friend of mine, and I'm still nauseatingly nervous about it
In a depressive spiral but at least I'm one half of a soulful-eyed couple
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
In a depressive spiral but at least I'm one half of a soulful-eyed couple
I love dark academia (turning the light off in the seminar room)
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I love dark academia (turning the light off in the seminar room)
People outside the AGI-prophecies world don't know that 'life's about human relationships and play, and no AI can change that' is the AGI prophets' company line. Only the thought that human intimacy and play require a context of collective human coping with the world runs contra
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
People outside the AGI-prophecies world don't know that 'life's about human relationships and play, and no AI can change that' is the AGI prophets' company line. Only the thought that human intimacy and play require a context of collective human coping with the world runs contra
Wait this explains so much! I saw her give a talk at Yale last year and she seemed nervous as hell until she said this line 20 minutes in and got a good laugh from the room, at which point she totally relaxed and it became clear she was nervous about whether the joke will land
Just learned about Hanna’s book title and I thought you guys would want to know
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Wait this explains so much! I saw her give a talk at Yale last year and she seemed nervous as hell until she said this line 20 minutes in and got a good laugh from the room, at which point she totally relaxed and it became clear she was nervous about whether the joke will land
Charli XCX - In Search of Lost Time featuring Marcel Proust
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Charli XCX - In Search of Lost Time featuring Marcel Proust