philosopher, writer, @columbialaw professor✨thinking about how info, art, tech, expression + illness→identity across space/over time✨psychedelic music lover💫🖤
New York, NY
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Twin Peaks: The Return exists in a state of quantum superposition — both a movie and a television show until it is directly observed.
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debate over whether AI-written or ghost-written op-eds gets to the aesthetics point I made in Tulsa and have been harping about on TMK and that others have made in one way or another. aesthetic and moral arguments against technology are pretty convincing and seductive in the moment, but sit at the lowest level of thinking about this technology. you have to articulate an opposition that will survive improvements in the technology. biometric surveillance opposition premised on racial bias was valid and made a lot of sense but the companies just went out and scanned faces of black & brown homeless to improve their capabilities and the argument fell to the wayside. what is the actual opposition? what is the opposition to what pervasive surveillance does to social relations and society at large? and what is the opposition to the proliferation of AI-generated text on a deeper level?
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"Cheese is just preserved milk with certain cultures reinforced to make it taste the way it does. Similarly, you could say that music has the same structure that's put down as a recording."
-Brittany Dennison interviews Carlos Souffront
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Download of the Week: “A Functionalist Theory of Legal Persons” by Chatterjee, legaltheoryblog.com/2026/01/… - The Download of the Week is A Functionalist Theory of Legal Persons by Mala Chatterjee.
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Chatterjee on Extended Legal Personality, legaltheoryblog.com/2026/01/… - Mala Chatterjee (Columbia Law School) has posted From Extended Personality to Extended Minds: Toward an Expanded Theory of Legal Personality (Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory: Volume IV (forthcoming 2026)) on SSRN.
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Beautiful essay by @nirrvala How Infinite Jest tethered me to life when I almost let it go – aeon.co/essays/how-infinite-…
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I wrote about illness, pain, & @JenniferLFeeley's @nyrbclassics translation of Xi Xi's "Mourning a Breast" for @clereviewbooks. It's very special to share some thoughts on what I've spent so much of my life thinking about. I could write about this forever.
"What illness and pain cast into relief is that our minds will always be lost in translation—and will always remain in a liminal space—somewhere between our embodiment and the outer world."
@nirrvala on Xi Xi's "Mourning a Breast" @nyrbclassics
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"What illness and pain cast into relief is that our minds will always be lost in translation—and will always remain in a liminal space—somewhere between our embodiment and the outer world."
@nirrvala on Xi Xi's "Mourning a Breast" @nyrbclassics
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“The glue of constitutional democracy is not the U.S. Marshals Service but a political culture that demands respect for the rule of law,” Thomas P. Schmidt writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Thank you for this lovely, thoughtful review! ✨ (I'm not on this site much these days so only just read it now) I look forward to reading more of your writing.
I wrote about illness, pain, & @JenniferLFeeley's @nyrbclassics translation of Xi Xi's "Mourning a Breast" for @clereviewbooks. It's very special to share some thoughts on what I've spent so much of my life thinking about. I could write about this forever.
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Opinion: Mala Chatterjee reviews philosopher and Washington Post critic Becca Rothfeld's impressive new book. chroni.cl/4eQ6Q5b
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More about ij than dfw but given that ij is his soul there’s basically no difference. And I keep thinking of passages like this aeon.co/essays/how-infinite-…
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Really good essay here about DFW and Infinite Jest by a legal scholar at Columbia Law School who tells movingly about how the book not only saved her life, but continues to do so daily. aeon.co/essays/how-infinite-…
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“We long to curate others’ representations of us, but also expect the freedom to construct our own representations of those around us. If artificial resurrections do extend us, they also further enmesh and entangle us.”
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In the university, philosophy is narrow and familiar. Becca Rothfeld shows that it can be extravagant, imaginative, and ambitious chronicle.com/article/there-…
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"We have become comfortable—too comfortable—with the limitations we have imposed on ourselves... we find ourselves increasingly siloed in the conversations others like us are already engaged in, and in the forms that they most easily take." dailynous.com/2024/09/26/wha…
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Artificial resurrection is an alluring antidote for our existential discomfort with mortality. The irony is that this antidote could prove so alluring that it corrodes our ability to connect and share experiences at all. @nirrvala
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“Rothfeld reminds us that the philosophical method is not merely a tool that we use to deliberate and defend our own views, but also one that we can use to help facilitate the deliberation of others.” @nirrvala on Becca’s book and public thinking:
chronicle.com/article/there-…
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If your interest is piqued after reading @nirrvala’s @ChronicleReview piece, you can purchase “All Things Are Too Small” here:
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