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book on communism (+ value, mechanism, pol theory, naturalism) soon(ish). would love to hear from you @ cbelton-at-tuta.io. all tweets reports of present pathos https://writingpractice.substack.com

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 21d

for good company only

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 24

in general it can’t be a bad thing for writing

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 22

i think radlib horror at e.g. arbitrary prosecutorial power or borders, though, can be in some ways genuinely destabilising. it’s hard to conceive of a liberal democracy without either. you kind of want to push the point a little bit further, to see where it goes

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 22

the legitimate germ to the silly social fascism allegations is that social democracy is always, in some capacity, going to be a retrenchment. we’ve already seen the social democracy dial turned up to 11; nothing peaceful is going to get the US to 70s sweden level wage compression

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 22

i was thinking about this apropos of someone asking what happened to leftist abolitionism, why the retrenchment was so quick. in some way it was always skin-deep; at its core twenty-teens leftist revivalism wanted to react centristishly to perceived liberal woke excesses

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 22

there’s much right about the resist fascism/no kings radlib horror at the admin’s uses of the state to punish & harm. tough how the stock DSAish lefty message, faulting billionaires/state capture, can assuage the liberals by letting american institutions themselves off the hook

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 22

in my dreams last night i was really good at reading early dynastic sumerian because of the time i spent grinding egyptian. but then i woke up and they weren’t mutually intelligible at all

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 21

imagine the rival Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Eisegesis was right across the hall… & they locked eyes
‘but the mysteries!’
‘i don’t care what it says, by Paul—i care what *i* say’
‘you make me feel so kenotic… what *do* you say’
‘i say it’s time to change dispensation’

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 19

perhaps slightly more surprising would be that of the four steely dan songs thus included all four are from can't buy a thrill. but then again that's about the level of execution you'd expect from amtrak

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 19

if i told you guys that the amtrak hold line was an endless and yet surprisingly variegated stream of 30% steely dan songs and 70% lesser steely-dan-alikes would that even potentially register as new information

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 19

i wear many hats. or at least read many journals.

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 19

*mouse teeth

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 19

3 - we did a lit review of 'regenerative dentistry' research again. turns out there isn't any such research unless you count mount teeth, so add 20 years to the ETA
4 - we did an n 57 study of this quack device a boston-area VC came up with. also it's unblinded & i am the VC

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 19

4 types of papers in dental journals:
1 - we did 'epidemiology' & 'found out' that poor people had bad teeth. let's moralise
2 - did you know that periodontitis is weakly correlated with this unrelated condition? neither did we but we kept looking til we found a 1.02 hazard ratio

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evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · Jul 22

NEW PAPER ALERT: deleuze's epistemology of inquiry is now forthcoming in the southern journal of philosophy! read on for more info on what deleuze's epistemology (of inquiry) is!
(link at bottom)

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 7

apologies to my marxist friends but i just don't think longue durée history & atheoretical comp lit have been earning their place latelty

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Aug 7

we should have an annual lottery to determine which two humanities disciplines we bowdlerise & teach in highly formalistic fashion to middle schoolers. you could tell what cohort people were in by their general vibe, e.g. seeming french indicates it was a philosophy & latin year

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Jul 23

yeah depressingly a lot of north jersey has better bagels on average than the wrong part of south brooklyn… i’ve been staying in this corner where the 2/3 closest bagel shops are weirdly terrible and the one that isn’t closes at 2 except ofc erev shabbos

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Jul 22

i want the primals

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Jul 21

really lovely photo

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Jul 21

my love of dilly-dallying is somewhat at odds with my proclivity for buying perishable goods

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Jul 21

i keep ordering organ meat which has to have the same kind of implicature

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Jul 21

i wish i knew what i could do to make the surly men at the butcher shop trust me

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Jul 19

just saw a horrifyingly ghoulish, totally still figure holding a bat wearing an ortiz red sox jersey poised in front of a yard to spook child passers-by and realised it was a crazy looking wax statue. so i slowed my run to get a better look at it and it headnodded at me

cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · Jul 17

when ants realised that we didn't want to eat them (even when they were inside other foods we *did* want to eat!) they also realised we had totally blown it as for leverage