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Literary & critical theory 📚 aesthetics 🌊 ecology 🌋 • Wrote a thesis on Thomas Pynchon • Not a Hegelian • Blog: thewastedworld.com
In case you missed it -- a new essay on Gillian Rose, Arthurian myth, and the philosophy of shame: open.substack.com/pub/thewaste...
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
In case you missed it -- a new essay on Gillian Rose, Arthurian myth, and the philosophy of shame: open.substack.com/pub/thewaste...
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meanwhile Greg @thewastedworld.bsky.social has a new blog up and running. Go and subscribe to that instead!
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November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
meanwhile Greg @thewastedworld.bsky.social has a new blog up and running. Go and subscribe to that instead!
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The Wasted World
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The Wasted World | Gregory Marks | Substack
Essaying in criticism. Click to read The Wasted World, by Gregory Marks, a Substack publication. Launched 6 minutes ago.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The Wasted World
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A new essay on the contradictory duties of tragedy and the comedy of shame in Gillian Rose's Love's Work and the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
thewastedworld.com/2025/11/21/s...
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The Law of Shame in Gillian Rose’s Arthuriana and The Green Knight
The final chapter of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work is its most fragmentary. After several chapters in the confessional mode, Rose diverts from the discussion of her life to a series of short reflectio…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A new essay on the contradictory duties of tragedy and the comedy of shame in Gillian Rose's Love's Work and the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
thewastedworld.com/2025/11/21/s...
thewastedworld.com/2025/11/21/s...
A new essay on the contradictory duties of tragedy and the comedy of shame in Gillian Rose's Love's Work and the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
thewastedworld.com/2025/11/21/s...
thewastedworld.com/2025/11/21/s...
The Law of Shame in Gillian Rose’s Arthuriana and The Green Knight
The final chapter of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work is its most fragmentary. After several chapters in the confessional mode, Rose diverts from the discussion of her life to a series of short reflectio…
thewastedworld.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A new essay on the contradictory duties of tragedy and the comedy of shame in Gillian Rose's Love's Work and the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
thewastedworld.com/2025/11/21/s...
thewastedworld.com/2025/11/21/s...
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The fragments, composed in parallel with the final drafts of Dialectic of Enlightenment (possibly outlines for its unwritten sequel), challenged everything I thought I knew about 1940s Critical Theory—been working on getting these ready to share for about a year!
NEW: Two Unpublished Fragments (On The Tasks of Post-War Marxism) by Horkheimer & Adorno (1946)
- On The Relation Between Critical Intellectuals, the Proletariat, and the Communist Party
- The Curse of Writing Today
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- On The Relation Between Critical Intellectuals, the Proletariat, and the Communist Party
- The Curse of Writing Today
ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/HA...
September 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The fragments, composed in parallel with the final drafts of Dialectic of Enlightenment (possibly outlines for its unwritten sequel), challenged everything I thought I knew about 1940s Critical Theory—been working on getting these ready to share for about a year!
Starting this Monday! -- My lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
August 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Starting this Monday! -- My lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
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Honestly if there's any way that you could learn Hegel's Phenomenology, cover-to-cover in a lecture series guided by Greg (my nemesis) would be easily one of the best, most interesting, and most transformative. There are people who read Hegel for 80 years but they Can't Do What Greg Does.
Excited to announce my upcoming lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
July 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Honestly if there's any way that you could learn Hegel's Phenomenology, cover-to-cover in a lecture series guided by Greg (my nemesis) would be easily one of the best, most interesting, and most transformative. There are people who read Hegel for 80 years but they Can't Do What Greg Does.
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Excited to announce my upcoming lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
July 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Excited to announce my upcoming lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
Excited to announce my upcoming lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
July 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Excited to announce my upcoming lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
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no one believes me when I say Deleuze was a big fan of Negative Dialectics, but it’s right there at the crux of the critique of capitalism in the Geophilosophy chapter of “What is Philosophy?” (pp. 99-100)
June 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
no one believes me when I say Deleuze was a big fan of Negative Dialectics, but it’s right there at the crux of the critique of capitalism in the Geophilosophy chapter of “What is Philosophy?” (pp. 99-100)
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French theory reads the Frankfurt School
Foucault: Yes… the enlightenment *&* sociology—very ambivalent…
Deleuze: Sure I’m doing Negative Dialectics. Habermas got lost after debate club & ended up in philosophy.
Derrida: *Guy who’s only read Heidegger* Benjamin is giving me major Heidegger vibes
Foucault: Yes… the enlightenment *&* sociology—very ambivalent…
Deleuze: Sure I’m doing Negative Dialectics. Habermas got lost after debate club & ended up in philosophy.
Derrida: *Guy who’s only read Heidegger* Benjamin is giving me major Heidegger vibes
March 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
French theory reads the Frankfurt School
Foucault: Yes… the enlightenment *&* sociology—very ambivalent…
Deleuze: Sure I’m doing Negative Dialectics. Habermas got lost after debate club & ended up in philosophy.
Derrida: *Guy who’s only read Heidegger* Benjamin is giving me major Heidegger vibes
Foucault: Yes… the enlightenment *&* sociology—very ambivalent…
Deleuze: Sure I’m doing Negative Dialectics. Habermas got lost after debate club & ended up in philosophy.
Derrida: *Guy who’s only read Heidegger* Benjamin is giving me major Heidegger vibes
Just received from @umbrellaent.bsky.social — the 4K restoration of Wake in Fright, complete with the novel by Kenneth Cook, and a booklet of essays on the film (including a critical comparison of the book and film by yours truly)!
June 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Just received from @umbrellaent.bsky.social — the 4K restoration of Wake in Fright, complete with the novel by Kenneth Cook, and a booklet of essays on the film (including a critical comparison of the book and film by yours truly)!
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Very pleased to announce that I will be presenting a lecture series with the MSCP on Hegel's speculative thought -- including introductory forays into the Phenomenology, Logic, and Lectures on Fine Art. Starting on June 20th, in-person and online!
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
May 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Very pleased to announce that I will be presenting a lecture series with the MSCP on Hegel's speculative thought -- including introductory forays into the Phenomenology, Logic, and Lectures on Fine Art. Starting on June 20th, in-person and online!
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
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Get on Greg's course. you won't regret it (well ok it's Hegel, you'll gregret it a *little*, but not much).
Very pleased to announce that I will be presenting a lecture series with the MSCP on Hegel's speculative thought -- including introductory forays into the Phenomenology, Logic, and Lectures on Fine Art. Starting on June 20th, in-person and online!
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
May 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Get on Greg's course. you won't regret it (well ok it's Hegel, you'll gregret it a *little*, but not much).
Very pleased to announce that I will be presenting a lecture series with the MSCP on Hegel's speculative thought -- including introductory forays into the Phenomenology, Logic, and Lectures on Fine Art. Starting on June 20th, in-person and online!
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
May 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Very pleased to announce that I will be presenting a lecture series with the MSCP on Hegel's speculative thought -- including introductory forays into the Phenomenology, Logic, and Lectures on Fine Art. Starting on June 20th, in-person and online!
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
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If we want to better understand large language models, and what they are and aren’t capable of, we can look at earlier versions of the same technology – like Erasmian humanism
Who needs AI text-generation when there’s Erasmus of Rotterdam | Aeon Essays
Like today’s large language models, 16th-century humanists had techniques to automate writing – to the detriment of novelty
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May 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
If we want to better understand large language models, and what they are and aren’t capable of, we can look at earlier versions of the same technology – like Erasmian humanism
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obsessed with middlemarch and I love the Virginia Woolf quote about it being a book for adults. rip queen, you would’ve loved having a letterboxd
April 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
obsessed with middlemarch and I love the Virginia Woolf quote about it being a book for adults. rip queen, you would’ve loved having a letterboxd
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posted a translation of Adorno’s letter to Scholem on his reactions to reading the Zohar—tying in Gnosis, Benjamin, Kafka, and yes an extended comparison between reading the Zohar for a sense of its “topology” & the search for goat-antelopes over mountainous terrain
(Link below)
(Link below)
April 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
posted a translation of Adorno’s letter to Scholem on his reactions to reading the Zohar—tying in Gnosis, Benjamin, Kafka, and yes an extended comparison between reading the Zohar for a sense of its “topology” & the search for goat-antelopes over mountainous terrain
(Link below)
(Link below)
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right part II is out:
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March 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
right part II is out:
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as promised: translations of 5 polemics by Max Horkheimer (1933-1938), with two interludes on the critical theorist between history & theology & two appendices on dialectics during late Weimar & pre-WWII decline
March 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
as promised: translations of 5 polemics by Max Horkheimer (1933-1938), with two interludes on the critical theorist between history & theology & two appendices on dialectics during late Weimar & pre-WWII decline
Reading reviews like this, you'd think all conceptual problems could be solved by finding better words
March 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Reading reviews like this, you'd think all conceptual problems could be solved by finding better words
"The lot of man is ceaseless labour,
Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder,
Or irregular labour, which is not pleasant" (Eliot).
Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder,
Or irregular labour, which is not pleasant" (Eliot).
February 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"The lot of man is ceaseless labour,
Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder,
Or irregular labour, which is not pleasant" (Eliot).
Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder,
Or irregular labour, which is not pleasant" (Eliot).