Rob Wyllie
@profrobwylliebyung-chul han with @politybooks .political economy @ashbrookcenter .contributing editor @thelampmagazine .what do free societies feel like?
It's ironic that we Tyson fans felt so sad about last night even though Mike earned gazillions. But you have to acknowledge in their creativity and willingness to take risks both Mike and Paul are characters Nietzsche wld have smiled upon. #TysonFight
Make friends with time.
The clock is not something we can turn back, but it is something we should regularly push back, in the sense of restraining its tendency to exercise a tyranny based on a productivity calculus. We make time into that. To be free of time is to receive it as a gift, not a master.
I hope @ardith1923 spoke to the B&N manager about why our Byung-Chul Han book is in the A**holes section alongside Kierkegaard! Sorry to drag you down @StevenEKnepper!
Today is a good day to watch this lecture by one of the great teachers of our time. youtu.be/cE8dJTKzXn0
This reading list is extraordinary because I’m too dense to understand the organizing principle except they’re five or my twenty or so favorite books.
In no particular order: After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Duino Elegies by Rilke
Younger men underperforming female contemporaries and their fathers aren’t a “class”, but their gendered and generational economic comparisons and anxieties — anti-“woke” but not conservative providers — fed Trump. A new man-child grievance politics is born.
FYI I wrote an essay remembering Eva, it should come out at @thelampmagazine sometime soon. It was hard to write, but I'm very grateful that @matthewwalther asked me to write it.
I learned late last night that the great Eva Brann of @stjohnscollege passed away peacefully yesterday at the age of 95. In lieu of many chaotic words, I post below the Seikilos Epitaph, which I think should be sung at the death of every philosopher. 1/3
One thing that needs to happen is for the left to be able to talk about this descriptive reality—that the most under-represented quadrant is economically populist/socially conservative—without it being instantly taken to mean We Need More Racism/Sexism/Homophobia/Transphobia
Economic left, socially right—basically the opposite of what Dems have been running on for the last decade.
Remarkable quote from Byung-Chul Han. A world without boundaries between people is pure narcissism. Maybe this is also the case for civilizations...
274. The Palliative Society by Byung-Chul Han with Steve Knepper Listen now: anchor.fm/hermitix Youtube: youtu.be/7qQc9mZII8A --- Patreon: patreon.com/hermitix
Just finished Byung-Chul Han’s “Topology of Violence”, which is ironically the scariest book I’ve read this year. Han makes an argument that modern violence is often internal—we self-exploit under pressure to achieve, leading to burnout and depression.
The first critical introduction to Byung-Chul Han’s philosophy is out now.
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