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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · Oct 19

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...

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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no earthquake (cultural tutor) @noearthquake.bsky.social · 9h

theoretically AGI should be able to make you come in a single sext

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 8h

Just rereading The Symposium and was reminded of the wonderful fact, which I had forgot, that even the ancient Greeks had drama in their fanfic communities about who would top and who would bottom. All men are brothers, human nature is eternal.

‘Achilles, the son of Thetis, however, they honoured and sent to the
Isles of the Blest.48 For when he found out from his mother that if he
killed Hector he too would die, but if he did not kill him he would
return home and live to old age, he nevertheless dared to make the
choice of standing up for his lover Patroclus49 and avenging him; thus
180a he also died, and died for his sake. (Aeschylus actually talks nonsense
when he asserts that it was Achilles who was the lover of Patroclus:
Achilles was not only more beautiful than Patroclus but also more
42 As Apollo into Aeneas at Iliad 20.110. 43 ‘those in love’, in Greek hoi erontes; see eran.
44 philia; see philein. 45 eros. 46 psuche. 47 arete.
48 In Greek myth, islands in the legendary far west of the Greek world where after death specially
favoured mortals, notably some of the heroes, pass a blissful afterlife, rather than having a
phantom existence in the Underworld like everyone else.
49 Homer in the Iliad did not make Achilles and Patroclus lovers, but Aeschylus represents them
as such in Myrmidons, a lost tragedy from which a few quotations survive.
The Symposium (‘The Drinking Party’)
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beautiful than all the rest of the heroes, and still beardless; and according
to Homer he was much younger.50)

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 18h

Not recommended, or recommended despite/because of the mustard oil?

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 18h

A lot of you complicit in the Brahminization of Indian culture under British rule by ignoring these posts

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21h

"it is your turn to study statistical mechanics" is the funniest way to say "kys" which will not get you banned

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 20h

Fuck Bezos but I don’t think I’ve ever charted anywhere before (aesthetics??)

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 21h

When you think about it my gf not wanting me to spend all day talking about Dhamaka NYC's layering of fermented, pungent, smoky, funky flavors is complicit in the Brahminization of Indian culture under British rule

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 1d

Not confident but I think Thai, South Indian, and South Chinese have active discourse about creating huge and complex flavors through difficult balancing-work

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 1d

How rich you gotta be before they will sell you the sheets that don't come off the corner of the bed

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 1d

From intervuews her vibe is like Riot Grl UK L. G

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 1d

His mom is kind of a genius check out StarStruck sometime

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 1d

Me reading Gravity's Rainbow: 'it's good but it would have been better as a paneer methi'

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow thank you!

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's because Benthamism is the ideology of centrist tech libs the idea of non-instrumental value is very important for left since midcentury. See Marcuse etc

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 1d

IMO it's useful to think about Hegel's 'actual' as cognate to the self-help 'actualized.' Like if you want to understand what 'the rational is the actual, the actual is the rational' means

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 1d

What's up with how Brennan Lee Mulligan pronounces 'goddess' like 'gow-dess', stressing the 2nd syllable? I figure it must be some wimyn type thing he got from his '70s mythopoetic feminist sci-fi writer mom but I can't find any evidence

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 2d

Not proud of this but I thought U2 - With Or Without You and Roxy Music - More Than This were the same song

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 2d

It's fun watching old episodes of Friends with the full understanding that Lisa Kudrow's a genius

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 2d

wait what

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 2d

Said has very old-world tastes, pretty consistently

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 2d

Me calling Edward Said not to report that someone did an Orientalism but to invite him to a concert by his favorite composer JS Bach, because I'd never reduce his complex relationship to European high culture to just 'critique'

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 2d

Using the power of AI, we can now recreate the Song from Killing Me Softly With His Song

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 2d

Dhamaka NYC, amazing very celebrated Indian restaurant

Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 2d

If as a child I were to hear Killing Me Softly With His Song on the radio and ask my parents 'but what song is she talking about' and my parents were to explain 'song' is a metaphor for love or sex or Christianity my parents would be wrong, the song is Empty Chairs by Don McLean

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 3d

I saw ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER at the Alamo Drafthouse last night,, which is probably the most dads who've ever been at a PTA meeting.

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