Fernando

Literature discourse got me thinking just how dead literature is as a medium. The social and material conditions of our age are completely inimical to a culture of reading and writing. The novel is as obsolete as Homer at this point. Everything is autofiction or longform tweets

Is it just me or any social media algorithm these days is like 99.9% ragebait? Was it ever better? Can’t even tell anymore

Every time one of these “100 best” lists comes out I am reminded how much people love to quantize art, which is far more experiential than quantifiable

Anti-intellectualism married so well with instrumental reason and tech worship that it feels like the humanities stand no chance in this environment. Social media both reflects and exacerbates this

Joanna Newsom should have museum exhibitions about her. What a singular artist

This sounds like a scenario Wittgenstein would write an aphorism about

Sound-Dust is such a phenomenal record. Stereolab are truly special

“He who has been cannot ever not have been: From now on, this mysterious and profoundly obscure fact of having lived is his sustenance for eternity.” - Vladimir Jankélévitch

Viva Rorty! Y Mexico siempre

Kiss Land might be the greatest album of all time

If you drive on your phone you should be jailed

The power of philosophy: literally put someone to sleep talking about what I've been researching

Got literal chills from rereading Hume's introduction to A Treatise

It’s amazing how often I find the most generative ideas in the texts I least expect

Can’t wait for the semester to start. First time taking a lit class and it happens to be a philosophy and literature one

brdrlnds.wixsite.com/brdrlnd… Wrote about how The Boys is a show that revolves around the themes of authenticity and performance, oscillating between the moods of irony and earnestness

Just finished The Boys S2 finale and wow…. I feel like any comparisons to other superhero media misses the point. This is just an amazing show that happens to be premised around people with powers. It is a far cry from the standard, formulaic hero flick that saturates everything

Wrote a post about the two most famous pranksters of the artworld brdrlnds.wixsite.com/brdrlnd…