Nolen Gertz
@ethicistforhire.bsky.social
Philosophy professor @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social
Author of #NihilismAndTechnology (RLI 2018), #Nihilism (MIT 2019), #PhilosophyOfWarAndExile (Palgrave 2014)
https://www.nolengertz.com
#Philsky #Philtech #Existentialism #Phenomenology #Filmsky
Author of #NihilismAndTechnology (RLI 2018), #Nihilism (MIT 2019), #PhilosophyOfWarAndExile (Palgrave 2014)
https://www.nolengertz.com
#Philsky #Philtech #Existentialism #Phenomenology #Filmsky
Terrifyingly prescient and yet surprisingly optimistic in thinking that a TV-made demagogue could lose his fans so quickly if they simply learned what he was really like off camera...
January 23, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Terrifyingly prescient and yet surprisingly optimistic in thinking that a TV-made demagogue could lose his fans so quickly if they simply learned what he was really like off camera...
Very weird to discover that this was filmed in the hotel my family stayed at when we visited Warsaw last summer...
January 23, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Very weird to discover that this was filmed in the hotel my family stayed at when we visited Warsaw last summer...
Oh wow they turned me into a centerfold...
January 23, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Oh wow they turned me into a centerfold...
I especially like that the headline reads like a warning that an American has been identified in the area...
January 23, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I especially like that the headline reads like a warning that an American has been identified in the area...
"Se faire chier means literally 'to get oneself shitted'."
French truly is the language of love...
French truly is the language of love...
![ungraspable organ, this object that we can only circumvent, in short, this false organ.
The organ of the drive is situated in relation to the true organ. In order to make this clear to you and in order to show that this is the only pole that, in the domain of sexuality, is within our grasp, capable of being apprehended, I will take the liberty of setting a myth before you-and in doing so I shall take as my starting-point what is put into the mouth of Aris-tophanes on the subject of love in Plato's Symposium.
This usage presupposes of course that we give ourselves permission to use, in this judo with truth, the apparatus that I have always avoided using before my audiences.
1 This sentence is strictly untranslatable on account of the play on words. Se faire chier means literally 'to get oneself shitted'. 'Tu me fais chier' has the sense of you make me sick'. 'On se fait rudement chier' means 'we were bored to death'. An 'emmerdeur' (literally, a 'shitter') is a 'bore' [Tr.].
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January 23, 2026 at 2:35 PM
"Se faire chier means literally 'to get oneself shitted'."
French truly is the language of love...
French truly is the language of love...
I'm always jealous of those who got to attend all the incredible seminars that were happening in Paris in the 60s, but now I'm even more jealous of those who got to hear Lacan say "world of yum-yum"...
January 23, 2026 at 10:44 AM
I'm always jealous of those who got to attend all the incredible seminars that were happening in Paris in the 60s, but now I'm even more jealous of those who got to hear Lacan say "world of yum-yum"...