An essay by Pierre Vandenberghe
Why do we collect things?
Desire, nostalgia, loss, and completeness in the personal collections of Joseph Cornell, Peter Blake, and Vladimir Nabokov
Meditations on Machinic Desire
The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1993 essay Machinic Desire, three of the most insight-dense paragraphs I’ve ever encountered:
LLMs and self-referentiality
I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when y…
A Claude Skill that Makes LLM Paragraphs More Bearable
And they said studying Christensen's rhetoric of the sentence was a waste of time...
The Third Web
(This text is very long. Maybe too long. You can find a PDF and an EPUB of it below.The current version of this text will always live at https://web3.tante.ccSatya has created an audio version of this essay. Eine deutsche Version findet sich hier. Una versione italiana di questo testo è qui – grazie Nebbia! En […]
On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason - Pierre Bourdieu, Loïc Wacquant, 1999
This article poses the question of the social and intellectual conditions for genuine social scientific internationalism, through an analysis of the worldwide s...
literacy
attention economy and media critique
The End of Reading Is Here
“The End of Reading Is Here” - The Ringer
I don't enjoy the Internet any more
neilpostman.org
AI Is a Waste of Time
This life gives you nothing
Are We Having Too Much Fun?
Do Not Research | Substack
Research taste
Neuroscience, Cognition & Psychology
as we get further into the end of days, I'm reminded about how much of research taste, values and judgment is bound up in the taste, values…
Chris Olah on Twitter / X
Anti-democratic attitudes are highly contagious, new psychology study finds
Hyperactive–impulsive ADHD traits predict higher curiosity in adults: evidence from a cross-sectional study
Understanding the influence of digital technology on human cognitive functions: A narrative review
How the hypercuriosity of ADHD may have helped humans thrive | Aeon Essays
The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together
