Jin Darvek > Recent Status Updates

I only needed to read ch1-2 for now.
I’m not really predisposed to Arendt’s thinking,
nor am I prepared to adjudicate many of her claims which rest on thinkers I haven’t yet read. Come back later.

Maybe part two will be better.

This is the most political economy I’ve ever done. I can’t get away from it anymore, the only way out is through it.

“Some woke positions on cultural questions are substantively wrong, not merely politically inconvenient, and a serious left should be willing to say so.”
“a serious politics judges itself by measurable movement towards a concrete goal, while a performative one judges itself by how radical it looks to other radicals. What a left tendency treats as grounds for excommunication tells you what it is actually for.”

Make Architecture Touch Grass Again.

intro = 41
currently on pg 54
total = 381 + 41 = 422

Reading the last 3 chapters on ecology.
I’ll pick it up again later.

Finished the early presocratics, now I’m starting on Part II with the middle period ones.
Because fragments from each thinker are presented in context of who later cited them, this is proving a nice little introduction to ancient Greek, Roman, and a bit of early Christian thought.

When we look at really good color compositions, ones that shine with inner light, we get a glimpse of the eye of the I, the ground of all being to which our individual experience of self belongs.

I’m now on the ~100pg essay about making color which has the divine quality of inner light.

We’ll see.