T.N. Kayzel
@kaijzel.bsky.social
Political Theory & Intellectual History | Postdoc at Sciences Po Paris, Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée | Works on the histories of economic growth and economic planning.
Nu nog Dijsselbloem en de PvdA is weer een respectabele partij.
June 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Nu nog Dijsselbloem en de PvdA is weer een respectabele partij.
In terms of most grievous misspellings of names, I think I found the most funny example. The guy is called Jörn Rüsen. (From Habermas' "the new obscurity")
June 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In terms of most grievous misspellings of names, I think I found the most funny example. The guy is called Jörn Rüsen. (From Habermas' "the new obscurity")
The fate of Immanuel Kant. From great metaphysician to copywriter of taglines for shoe polish.
June 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The fate of Immanuel Kant. From great metaphysician to copywriter of taglines for shoe polish.
I’ve been listening to Aphex Twin while working all dat, and I’m now wondering if that was such a good idea. Perhaps I should’ve listened to Sunn O))) instead
lekker sun o))) luisteren en internetten
May 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I’ve been listening to Aphex Twin while working all dat, and I’m now wondering if that was such a good idea. Perhaps I should’ve listened to Sunn O))) instead
Woke-Aristoteles: the personal is political
April 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Woke-Aristoteles: the personal is political
"THIS IS A VERY PLEASANT PINEAPPLE!"
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Wittgenstein | movie | 1993 | Official Clip
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April 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"THIS IS A VERY PLEASANT PINEAPPLE!"
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It was the morning of 7 September 1303, and Pope Boniface VIII had a vague sense that thing might not go completely his way that day.
April 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It was the morning of 7 September 1303, and Pope Boniface VIII had a vague sense that thing might not go completely his way that day.
If the author’s portrait is anything to go by, I have serious doubts about how delightful the "heerlijke konterfeijtsels" (delightful portraits) in this book will actually be.
April 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If the author’s portrait is anything to go by, I have serious doubts about how delightful the "heerlijke konterfeijtsels" (delightful portraits) in this book will actually be.
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‘‘Vrede door wapens is als vleeseten voor dierenwelzijn’’’ … ja en je niet bewapenen met Trump en Poetin voor de deur is jezelf in de marinade rollen voor kannibalen
March 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
‘‘Vrede door wapens is als vleeseten voor dierenwelzijn’’’ … ja en je niet bewapenen met Trump en Poetin voor de deur is jezelf in de marinade rollen voor kannibalen
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Vandaag precies tien jaar geleden. Drinken we op.
February 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Vandaag precies tien jaar geleden. Drinken we op.
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Was reading this beautiful piece on the ideology of our Silicon Valley overlords. It forwards the centrality of the notion of "the Singularity", a point at which AI surpasses human intelligence and merges with it. A thread🧵
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The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction - Viewpoint Magazine
As the consumer-oriented liberalism of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs gave way to the technological authoritarianism of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, this strange foundation paved the way for “neoreaction,” o...
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February 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Was reading this beautiful piece on the ideology of our Silicon Valley overlords. It forwards the centrality of the notion of "the Singularity", a point at which AI surpasses human intelligence and merges with it. A thread🧵
viewpointmag.com/2017/03/28/t...
viewpointmag.com/2017/03/28/t...
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This podcast episode is not only interesting because @michaelhobbes.bsky.social & Peter Shamshiri meticulously lay out how bad Yascha Mounk's "scholarship" is but also because they show how weak the empirical basis for the "anti-woke" movement is.
The Identity Trap
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 12/14/2023 · 1h 47m
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February 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This podcast episode is not only interesting because @michaelhobbes.bsky.social & Peter Shamshiri meticulously lay out how bad Yascha Mounk's "scholarship" is but also because they show how weak the empirical basis for the "anti-woke" movement is.
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you can tell a lot about contemporary Thomists by the fact that the Thomistic Institute has a coffee mug about your dog's soul being annihilated upon death as a gift
Every Thomist I've ever met - and I went to a Dominican college, so I couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting one - has been a conservative reactionary
January 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
you can tell a lot about contemporary Thomists by the fact that the Thomistic Institute has a coffee mug about your dog's soul being annihilated upon death as a gift
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Question for the economic theologians out there: Is the role of our banking system in pushing "the day of reckoning" into the future rooted in the Christian doctrine of holding back the end times (the kathechon and all that)?
January 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Question for the economic theologians out there: Is the role of our banking system in pushing "the day of reckoning" into the future rooted in the Christian doctrine of holding back the end times (the kathechon and all that)?
France: Let’s democratize the central bank; it’s only logical.
Bagehot (a true Englishman): Nice idea there, old chap, but we Brits simply don’t care about logic.
Bagehot (a true Englishman): Nice idea there, old chap, but we Brits simply don’t care about logic.
January 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
France: Let’s democratize the central bank; it’s only logical.
Bagehot (a true Englishman): Nice idea there, old chap, but we Brits simply don’t care about logic.
Bagehot (a true Englishman): Nice idea there, old chap, but we Brits simply don’t care about logic.
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Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 (ca. 1250 - 1312), "To the tune 'Bo bu duan'"
September 3, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 (ca. 1250 - 1312), "To the tune 'Bo bu duan'"
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Surely I'm not the only one getting this vibe from the Switch 2's joycons:
January 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Surely I'm not the only one getting this vibe from the Switch 2's joycons:
French was according to J.S. Mill not a great language. Yet the French are so good in speculative bullshit that the intellectual mind cannot help but to feel compelled.
January 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
French was according to J.S. Mill not a great language. Yet the French are so good in speculative bullshit that the intellectual mind cannot help but to feel compelled.
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Cybernetic Capitalism is out now! It offers a social philosophy for the current age, detailing the cybernetic logic of neoliberal capitalism and radical-right reaction. www.fordhampress.com/978153150893...
Cybernetic Capitalism
A Conceptual Interrogation of Capital in a Cybernetic Environment Cybernetic Capitalism presents a groundbreaking synthesis of Niklas Luhmann's systems theor...
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January 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Cybernetic Capitalism is out now! It offers a social philosophy for the current age, detailing the cybernetic logic of neoliberal capitalism and radical-right reaction. www.fordhampress.com/978153150893...
Merry Christmas, my dear Bluesky friends!
December 25, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Merry Christmas, my dear Bluesky friends!
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asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.
November 30, 2023 at 10:31 PM
asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.
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Presentations on scarcity and visions of growth by @helmerstoel.bsky.social and @kaijzel.bsky.social respectively. Special thanks to Utrecht University's Critical Pathways and the Descartes Center for funding.
December 13, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Presentations on scarcity and visions of growth by @helmerstoel.bsky.social and @kaijzel.bsky.social respectively. Special thanks to Utrecht University's Critical Pathways and the Descartes Center for funding.