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"The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true." – Hannah Arendt
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Pinned
The Orient Express
I am Walter Benjamin's greatest soldier
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I guess I'll pin an introduction.
Hi I'm JellyJar. Maybe you've read my (quite bad and facetious) Umineko review or my (much better) retrospective analysis of Kinoko Nasu.
I mostly blog stuff over on blog.psychopopular.com
Hi I'm JellyJar. Maybe you've read my (quite bad and facetious) Umineko review or my (much better) retrospective analysis of Kinoko Nasu.
I mostly blog stuff over on blog.psychopopular.com
Literally generic it is so over.
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Literally generic it is so over.
Fascinated by "Trump 2023" of all years, where is it pulling that from.
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Fascinated by "Trump 2023" of all years, where is it pulling that from.
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Hello Subahibi fans.
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep – The Orient Express
An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi/Subahibi) as well as Tsui no Sora.
blog.psychopopular.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Hello Subahibi fans.
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
I wrote a modestly lengthy thing on social fascism in response to the latest drama on the other site about it.
Please give it a read.
theorb.substack.com/p/on-social-...
Please give it a read.
theorb.substack.com/p/on-social-...
For Stalinists, Fascism Doesn't Really Exist
The origins, assumptions, and results of the theory of social fascism
theorb.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I wrote a modestly lengthy thing on social fascism in response to the latest drama on the other site about it.
Please give it a read.
theorb.substack.com/p/on-social-...
Please give it a read.
theorb.substack.com/p/on-social-...
Here's some quick thoughts on the right's continued failure to face-up to its fascist turn.
theorb.substack.com/p/im-a-polit...
theorb.substack.com/p/im-a-polit...
"I'm A Political Theorist from Israel and this is My Nationalism"
A quick note on right-wing Zionism and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
theorb.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Here's some quick thoughts on the right's continued failure to face-up to its fascist turn.
theorb.substack.com/p/im-a-polit...
theorb.substack.com/p/im-a-polit...
I've mirrored some of the recent blog posts to Substack. I feel like Wordpress is becoming less reliable over time so I wanted people to have alternatives. Feel free to take this opportunity to check out my recent post on Subahibi if you haven't.
psychopopular.substack.com/p/subahibi
psychopopular.substack.com/p/subahibi
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep
An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi/Subahibi) as well as Tsui no Sora.
psychopopular.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I've mirrored some of the recent blog posts to Substack. I feel like Wordpress is becoming less reliable over time so I wanted people to have alternatives. Feel free to take this opportunity to check out my recent post on Subahibi if you haven't.
psychopopular.substack.com/p/subahibi
psychopopular.substack.com/p/subahibi
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メアリ・シェリー『フランケンシュタイン』は、怪物の訴えが突き刺さる。男性学的にいえば、怪物はこの世界の根深いルッキズムの犠牲者であり、産まれてこなかったことを夢見る反出生主義者であり、異性からの「心の共感」を求めるインセルでもある。また科学技術のプロメテウス主義＝加速主義の犠牲者とも言える。
怪物には理性があり、感情や共感があり、善良な良心もあった。怪物が人間たちから怪物と呼ばれるのは、とにかく徹底的に「外見」の問題である。外見があまりに醜くおぞましいがゆえに、全人類から嫌われ、恐怖される。ただひとつの願いが「異性の怪物を作ってくれ」であるのが、あまりに悲しい。
怪物には理性があり、感情や共感があり、善良な良心もあった。怪物が人間たちから怪物と呼ばれるのは、とにかく徹底的に「外見」の問題である。外見があまりに醜くおぞましいがゆえに、全人類から嫌われ、恐怖される。ただひとつの願いが「異性の怪物を作ってくれ」であるのが、あまりに悲しい。
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
メアリ・シェリー『フランケンシュタイン』は、怪物の訴えが突き刺さる。男性学的にいえば、怪物はこの世界の根深いルッキズムの犠牲者であり、産まれてこなかったことを夢見る反出生主義者であり、異性からの「心の共感」を求めるインセルでもある。また科学技術のプロメテウス主義＝加速主義の犠牲者とも言える。
怪物には理性があり、感情や共感があり、善良な良心もあった。怪物が人間たちから怪物と呼ばれるのは、とにかく徹底的に「外見」の問題である。外見があまりに醜くおぞましいがゆえに、全人類から嫌われ、恐怖される。ただひとつの願いが「異性の怪物を作ってくれ」であるのが、あまりに悲しい。
怪物には理性があり、感情や共感があり、善良な良心もあった。怪物が人間たちから怪物と呼ばれるのは、とにかく徹底的に「外見」の問題である。外見があまりに醜くおぞましいがゆえに、全人類から嫌われ、恐怖される。ただひとつの願いが「異性の怪物を作ってくれ」であるのが、あまりに悲しい。
I've added a PDF and EPUB to this essay so that people can read it in chunks. Please check it out.
Hello Subahibi fans.
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep – The Orient Express
An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi/Subahibi) as well as Tsui no Sora.
blog.psychopopular.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I've added a PDF and EPUB to this essay so that people can read it in chunks. Please check it out.
This is starting in December so there's still time to join if anyone wants to. We have 8 members so far, so don't be shy.
I'm going to be organising a small reading group for The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. It'll be starting over the holidays and run at a relaxed pace over the whole year for the sake of the slower readers. Leave a reply to express interest. I'll DM details later.
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is starting in December so there's still time to join if anyone wants to. We have 8 members so far, so don't be shy.
With how abstract this got, I really want to make sure that the next thing I write will be straightforward literary criticism. That said, perhaps "straightforward" just isn't how I do things. Either way, I still want to write some more stuff about art as art next.
Hello Subahibi fans.
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep – The Orient Express
An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi/Subahibi) as well as Tsui no Sora.
blog.psychopopular.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
With how abstract this got, I really want to make sure that the next thing I write will be straightforward literary criticism. That said, perhaps "straightforward" just isn't how I do things. Either way, I still want to write some more stuff about art as art next.
Hello Subahibi fans.
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep – The Orient Express
An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi/Subahibi) as well as Tsui no Sora.
blog.psychopopular.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Hello Subahibi fans.
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock:
The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi)
blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...
I wish I had the confidence required to write an article that accuses others of not having "arguments," only to turn around and quite literally direct my own "arguments" at a computer-generated strawman.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I wish I had the confidence required to write an article that accuses others of not having "arguments," only to turn around and quite literally direct my own "arguments" at a computer-generated strawman.
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I'm going to be organising a small reading group for The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. It'll be starting over the holidays and run at a relaxed pace over the whole year for the sake of the slower readers. Leave a reply to express interest. I'll DM details later.
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I'm going to be organising a small reading group for The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. It'll be starting over the holidays and run at a relaxed pace over the whole year for the sake of the slower readers. Leave a reply to express interest. I'll DM details later.
Congrats to Mamdani. He seems like an exceptionally talented politician. I hope he's able to accomplish some good, and also able to keep applying his same pragmatism and agility to actual governance. A DemSoc who knows how to play ball this well is rare. Even AoC and Bernie had clearer limits.
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Congrats to Mamdani. He seems like an exceptionally talented politician. I hope he's able to accomplish some good, and also able to keep applying his same pragmatism and agility to actual governance. A DemSoc who knows how to play ball this well is rare. Even AoC and Bernie had clearer limits.
I'm going to be organising a small reading group for The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. It'll be starting over the holidays and run at a relaxed pace over the whole year for the sake of the slower readers. Leave a reply to express interest. I'll DM details later.
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I'm going to be organising a small reading group for The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. It'll be starting over the holidays and run at a relaxed pace over the whole year for the sake of the slower readers. Leave a reply to express interest. I'll DM details later.
Populism that's rooted an in amorphous "them" vs "us" already has its dangers. But notice how this particular narrative also introduces a unitary social organism, and then papers over all individuality in favour of one's "contribution" to the whole. This is a preparatory discourse for fascism.
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Populism that's rooted an in amorphous "them" vs "us" already has its dangers. But notice how this particular narrative also introduces a unitary social organism, and then papers over all individuality in favour of one's "contribution" to the whole. This is a preparatory discourse for fascism.
The trend of these that's happening on the other site is so funny, because you very quickly see the giant chasm between the two kinds of leftist biographies:
1. Always left-wing, but not always radical
2. Always radical, but not always left-wing
Over there, most people are in the latter camp.
1. Always left-wing, but not always radical
2. Always radical, but not always left-wing
Over there, most people are in the latter camp.
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The trend of these that's happening on the other site is so funny, because you very quickly see the giant chasm between the two kinds of leftist biographies:
1. Always left-wing, but not always radical
2. Always radical, but not always left-wing
Over there, most people are in the latter camp.
1. Always left-wing, but not always radical
2. Always radical, but not always left-wing
Over there, most people are in the latter camp.
What they don't tell you is that even if you write 50 words in 20 different documents, that's still writing 1000 words per day. Just a little life hack in never releasing anything.
October 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
What they don't tell you is that even if you write 50 words in 20 different documents, that's still writing 1000 words per day. Just a little life hack in never releasing anything.
I really wasn't lying. Sorry but I will continue having nothing interesting to say for awhile. I am reading and rereading a bunch of very dense books and it will be years before I can promise any results from this time wasted.
Unfortunately for anyone who enjoys anything I write or do, I just bought a bunch of books on Ancient Greek and Medieval economic theory. The value theory arc may be just around the corner.
October 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I really wasn't lying. Sorry but I will continue having nothing interesting to say for awhile. I am reading and rereading a bunch of very dense books and it will be years before I can promise any results from this time wasted.
Correct as far as it goes—deserves a passing mark. But people need be more critical of the mechanical naturalism and utilitarianism that is so often taken as the default ethical framework, beyond just pointing out the hypocrisy of anti-AI arguments. Even if that hypocrisy is apparent.
October 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Correct as far as it goes—deserves a passing mark. But people need be more critical of the mechanical naturalism and utilitarianism that is so often taken as the default ethical framework, beyond just pointing out the hypocrisy of anti-AI arguments. Even if that hypocrisy is apparent.
It's a very lonely place being "anti-AI" but also reminded endlessly that "anti-AI" people are often metaphysically incoherent and dependent upon magical/spiritual thinking.
The only categorical gap between people and computers* that holds up for me is humanity's embodied being-there in the world.
The only categorical gap between people and computers* that holds up for me is humanity's embodied being-there in the world.
I continue to have the oddest interactions with people whom I suspect *literally do not believe in the existence of atoms*.
They might nominally claim they believe in atoms, but nothing in their belief network includes any kind of atom-modelling or grappling with the consequences here.
They might nominally claim they believe in atoms, but nothing in their belief network includes any kind of atom-modelling or grappling with the consequences here.
October 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It's a very lonely place being "anti-AI" but also reminded endlessly that "anti-AI" people are often metaphysically incoherent and dependent upon magical/spiritual thinking.
The only categorical gap between people and computers* that holds up for me is humanity's embodied being-there in the world.
The only categorical gap between people and computers* that holds up for me is humanity's embodied being-there in the world.
I'll try explaining Kiyoshi Kasai's "Phenomenology of Terrorism" in "basic" terms and link it to Charlie Kirk:
There is of course a sense of revolution that means a historical phenomenon. It is the sudden and explosive action of a mass of people based on the particular circumstances of the moment.
There is of course a sense of revolution that means a historical phenomenon. It is the sudden and explosive action of a mass of people based on the particular circumstances of the moment.
September 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I'll try explaining Kiyoshi Kasai's "Phenomenology of Terrorism" in "basic" terms and link it to Charlie Kirk:
There is of course a sense of revolution that means a historical phenomenon. It is the sudden and explosive action of a mass of people based on the particular circumstances of the moment.
There is of course a sense of revolution that means a historical phenomenon. It is the sudden and explosive action of a mass of people based on the particular circumstances of the moment.
It's interesting that Kiyoshi Kasai is so stylistically distinct as an essayist vs fiction author. The essays are contemporary whereas the fiction is retro and naturalistic. And yet, their content mirrors and supports each other at a pretty deep level, such that they ought to be read together.
September 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It's interesting that Kiyoshi Kasai is so stylistically distinct as an essayist vs fiction author. The essays are contemporary whereas the fiction is retro and naturalistic. And yet, their content mirrors and supports each other at a pretty deep level, such that they ought to be read together.