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Cool essay, short & meandering. It has academic elements, and a loose structure, but it feels most to me like listening to someone who's comfortable e...

Catching back up : 3rd & final stanza: Some stories survived the dynasty of the builder But their echo was itself locked in, became Anticipation that ...

:up: I think we're converging on a mostly shared middleground.

But that seems even less likely to be effective then the 'accelerationist' option to which you oppose it (and there are definitely more options then l...

Stanza II So each found himself caught in a net As a fashion, and all efforts to wriggle free Involved him further, inexorably, since all Existed ther...

New poem 'Scheherazade' Stanza I: Unsupported by reason's enigma Water collects in squared stone catch basins. The land is dry. Under it moves The wat...

Second, final, stanza: Those tangled versions of the truth are Combed out, the snarls ripped out And spread around. Behind the mask Is still a contine...

Ok, so I am on board with an artist saying , if they want : 'I was thinking about this, and this, and here's what I made.' If they want to do that, th...

Or the artwork, due to neoliberal precarity, is forced to market itself through the artist statement, like a worker made to forge their way in a gig e...

I like that kindergarten idea as well. It's charming and I think it's a great idea. But there's a clean and quick way to deal with second point - 'not...

But the 'artist's statement' has to be understood as the specific thing it is. To make this concrete: Imagine jamalrob makes it mandatory that every p...

? I understand the by-the-books dialectical reversal being applied, but I'm surprised this is your take. The easy dialectical reversal breaks down qui...

Yeah, I think that's a good way to sum it up. There's a book I really like called Seeing Like a State, that analyzes rationalist projects (like forest...

Ah, I did the inexcusable & mistranscribed. The first line should say 'only in the gap of today filling itself.' Still pleasantly brain-breaking.

New Poem : 'A Man of Words' Stanza I: His case inspires interest But little sympathy; it is smaller Than at first appeared. Does the first nettle Make...

I'm doing mostly exegesis right now.

I think there's a really important point she's making that doesn't immediately shine through. It's something like Goodhart's law : "When a measure bec...

Continued Summary: Do you smell a rat between Mill and Moore? Anscombe does - his name is Sidgwick. She thinks he's wrong about everything and wrong i...

Summary post: Anscombe describes Moore & his ilk - for them, 'right action' is the action that produces the best consequences. Anscombe admits there's...

Internet's back up! I both agree & disagree. In both agreeing & disagreeing, I might ultimately be agreeing, but let me smooth some creases, for my ow...

I was all hopped up to read to the end of the essay tonight & dip back into the convo but my isp went and had an outage.My phones too too tiny to read...

final stanza: out of night the token emerges its leaves like birds alighting all at once under a tree taken up and shaken again put down in weak rage ...

Stranza three : remember you are free to wander away as from other times other scenes that were taking place the history of someone who came too late ...

Missed last night. Stanza two: you reading there so accurately sitting not wanting to be disturbed as you came from that holy land what other signs of...

New Poem (the title also serves as the first line) As You Came From the Holy Land (stanza 1) of western New York state were the graves all right in th...

Anscombe thinks that it would be better if we moved from 'wrong' or 'what-you-ought-not-to-do' to a cluster of things like 'injust' 'untruthful' and '...

You added this part after I responded, but I want to respond to this too. I've only read the essay once through so far, and my first read-through of a...

That's fair. I think this paper does a good job of laying much of the groundwork for what that account would look like, but I agree that that does not...

Next part: What seems to have happened, according to Anscombe, is that we've carried forth a whole ethical machinery involving obligation, while jetti...

I think, at its limit, virtue ethics just is clearing space so that you can understand how what matters in terms of ethics and virtue is extraphilosop...

I like that. Maybe the first mechanic was almost touching on something - only he hamfistedly applied a by-the-numbers version of the teachings of a di...

Have to agree with you there- Paul was a real piece of work. On a prolonged bible kick though, & can't help myself with the religious digressions - no...

I think so, only I'd flip the first two. 'If the butcher delivered the meat then you ought pay for the meat' seems to be the major premise. And it see...

Yes, I think we're on the same page here (& I do think Anscombe is right.) To take her idea of exceptions: we can imagine something that looks exactly...

tldr; of my post: If 'the butcher delivered meat' can be taken as an 'is', then so can 'I owe the butcher".

Yeah, I do like how openly frustrated she is with her contemporaries. Her prose is clunky. I don't get the sense that she's constitutionally incapable...

Good call. I'll read it through, then circle back

2nd, final stanza : Why must it always end this way? A dais with woman reading, with the ruckus of her hair And all that is unsaid about her pulling u...

Continuing: Anscombe draws the conclusion that we can't look to Aristotle for elucidation of moralty as we think of it. What about other thinkers? - B...

I'm interested. I'm up late after the superbowl with nothing to do. (background : I'm coming into the essay knowing nothing about it, and little about...

Late on account of the Superbowl, but new poem, name of Forties Flick Stanza 1: The shadows of the Venetian blind on the painted wall, Shadows of the ...

Second, final, stanza: One day a man called while I was out And left this message: “You got the whole thing wrong From start to finish. Luckily, there...

Hit me up on direct messenger. For various reasons, I've decided not to comment on the poems on this thread (I did break that rule once, but I'm tryin...

I can't speak for Ashbery, I'm just posting the poems.

Poem 2 : "Worsening Situation" Stanza 1: Like a rainstorm, he said, the braided colors Wash over me and are no help. Or like one At a feast who eats n...

I'm breaking my own rule a little bit, but just a quick note on the first poem. The poem's title, I've learned from the internet, is also the first li...

final stanza: The night sheen takes over. A moon of cistercian pallor Has climbed to the center of heaven, installed, Finally involved with the busine...

Hey man. I get the sense from your posts that you're dealing with some hard shit, that maybe goes beyond what ' the philosophy forum' can handle. I fe...

Both. I really think there's a point at which those two things converge. Now it's rare for me to experience either immersion in the work of others, or...

@"Noble Dust" Yes, perfectly put, that's what I was trying to get at. For me (drawing/poetry/short stories) I'm wildly blocked up creatively, and I'm ...