Peli Grietzer
@peligrietzer.bsky.social
Mathematized philosophy of literature
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Peli Grietzer
@peligrietzer.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Why poetry is a variety of mathematical experience | Aeon Essays
Machine learning theory is shedding new light on how to think about the mysterious and ineffable nature of art
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Last year I published my big essay about art, poetic knowledge, and the scientific image of mind, language, and nature: aeon.co/essays/why-p...
Whenever I hear somebody say 'Kaiser Permanente' I think it's a Pynchon character
November 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Whenever I hear somebody say 'Kaiser Permanente' I think it's a Pynchon character
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at book clubs and literary events i meet people who are intelligent, discerning, and capable of having a good conversation. the issue is that they feel overburdened by life and simply want something that can tide them over and keep them going. they know it is slop, but that is the point
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
at book clubs and literary events i meet people who are intelligent, discerning, and capable of having a good conversation. the issue is that they feel overburdened by life and simply want something that can tide them over and keep them going. they know it is slop, but that is the point
RIP Tom Stoppard, a genius-hack-genius sandwich of a writer
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard, a genius-hack-genius sandwich of a writer
I'm once again suggesting a taboo against AI depictions of the human form
November 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm once again suggesting a taboo against AI depictions of the human form
Israel murdered two kids in Khan Younis yesterday. I normally retweet instead of post but can't bear looking at the video
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Israel murdered two kids in Khan Younis yesterday. I normally retweet instead of post but can't bear looking at the video
I think every character in every film should be a film actor, so this way their face looking familiar to you from other films won't break immersion
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I think every character in every film should be a film actor, so this way their face looking familiar to you from other films won't break immersion
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Liberal Zionism is 80 years of saying 'we just want a liberal international order based on universal human rights and the facts on the ground, and we will let you know once we made the facts on the ground the way we want them and it's time to start'
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Liberal Zionism is 80 years of saying 'we just want a liberal international order based on universal human rights and the facts on the ground, and we will let you know once we made the facts on the ground the way we want them and it's time to start'
I didn't know Jeff Buckley took himself for a Nina Simone imitator but it makes so much sense, and it's so cool that you can imitate somebody in an abstract, spiritual sense without concretely sounding like them
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I didn't know Jeff Buckley took himself for a Nina Simone imitator but it makes so much sense, and it's so cool that you can imitate somebody in an abstract, spiritual sense without concretely sounding like them
There is a Penrose stairs effect wherein either adding or removing 'The' from the name of a superhero franchise when you reboot signals that this time it's more mature and darker
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
There is a Penrose stairs effect wherein either adding or removing 'The' from the name of a superhero franchise when you reboot signals that this time it's more mature and darker
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If you loved THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE, then you'll love its action-packed sequel, PRINCE CASPIAN! The Pevensie children are back, even Edmund, but what about all your favorite friends: Mr. Tumnus, the Beavers, the friendly giant? Well, they've been dead for a thousand years. Sorry.
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
If you loved THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE, then you'll love its action-packed sequel, PRINCE CASPIAN! The Pevensie children are back, even Edmund, but what about all your favorite friends: Mr. Tumnus, the Beavers, the friendly giant? Well, they've been dead for a thousand years. Sorry.
Liberal Zionism is 80 years of saying 'we just want a liberal international order based on universal human rights and the facts on the ground, and we will let you know once we made the facts on the ground the way we want them and it's time to start'
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Liberal Zionism is 80 years of saying 'we just want a liberal international order based on universal human rights and the facts on the ground, and we will let you know once we made the facts on the ground the way we want them and it's time to start'
7 Nations Army lyrics are honestly best in class for that kind of not-lyrics-centric song
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
7 Nations Army lyrics are honestly best in class for that kind of not-lyrics-centric song
John Cale's current artistic output forces us to ask: what is the inverse of 'my GOAT is washed'?
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
John Cale's current artistic output forces us to ask: what is the inverse of 'my GOAT is washed'?
Guys I think I fixed Theory of Vibe: The autoencoder formulation had an absurd 'any two elements of a vibe have a meaningful difference-vector' implication. A vibe is actually a diffusion model whose latent space though high-dimensional makes sparse autoencoding (impossible in input space) possible
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Guys I think I fixed Theory of Vibe: The autoencoder formulation had an absurd 'any two elements of a vibe have a meaningful difference-vector' implication. A vibe is actually a diffusion model whose latent space though high-dimensional makes sparse autoencoding (impossible in input space) possible
An Irish or Scottish accent would have perfectly rounded-out my personality. Sad to know I could never be my best self
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
An Irish or Scottish accent would have perfectly rounded-out my personality. Sad to know I could never be my best self
The point of Hegel is revisiting the contradictions that when you were a smart 12 year old made you go 'I should hold the concepts that produce these contradictions pretty loosely' but this time holding insanely tight
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The point of Hegel is revisiting the contradictions that when you were a smart 12 year old made you go 'I should hold the concepts that produce these contradictions pretty loosely' but this time holding insanely tight
It makes me kind of sad that my work only ever gets formally cited in digital-media studies even though lots of literature and philosophy people seem to know and like it
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It makes me kind of sad that my work only ever gets formally cited in digital-media studies even though lots of literature and philosophy people seem to know and like it
Some of my core beliefs are: Marx, Carnap, and Wittgenstein are methodologically important, Hegel was on to something, 3rd Crit was on to something, Chalmers stuff isn't just confusion, comp cog sci is relevant, Symbolist Manifesto and Defense of Poetry were on to something
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Some of my core beliefs are: Marx, Carnap, and Wittgenstein are methodologically important, Hegel was on to something, 3rd Crit was on to something, Chalmers stuff isn't just confusion, comp cog sci is relevant, Symbolist Manifesto and Defense of Poetry were on to something
I do kind of believe Blackstar is Bowie coming to identify himself with Hegelian negation
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I do kind of believe Blackstar is Bowie coming to identify himself with Hegelian negation
I'm a modernist poetics literalist (believe the things modernist poets say poetry does are literally things poetry does)
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'm a modernist poetics literalist (believe the things modernist poets say poetry does are literally things poetry does)
As a Bowie person I feel sympathy for Milton people because they semi-hate Shakespeare the way we semi-hate Dylan
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As a Bowie person I feel sympathy for Milton people because they semi-hate Shakespeare the way we semi-hate Dylan
Randomly ran into this very sad first-person essay about dying early. I feel like a late 20th century overcorrection against existentialism left people like me with a false sense of having just outgrown this stuff www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Randomly ran into this very sad first-person essay about dying early. I feel like a late 20th century overcorrection against existentialism left people like me with a false sense of having just outgrown this stuff www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Lolina/Inga Copeland just released a Gossip Girl themed track... Not joking when I say I'm digging my nails into the back of my hand rn to make sure I'm not dreaming
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Lolina/Inga Copeland just released a Gossip Girl themed track... Not joking when I say I'm digging my nails into the back of my hand rn to make sure I'm not dreaming
Whoever named leche de tigre did a great job
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Whoever named leche de tigre did a great job
Closest I've been in my life to understanding the Cambridge Capital Controversy
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Closest I've been in my life to understanding the Cambridge Capital Controversy