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From the piece: "People have a weird habit of acting as if the university is an institution of the Enlightenment, dedicated to the free enquiry of the individual intellect. It’s no…

I'm pretty sure Sam Kriss knows Pierre Menard is a fictional character dude. He's using the story to make a point about how we've thought about originality in different ages. The i…

You say that like it's a bad thing

That was... a journey.

Is it true that we don't have a monoculture, though? The author argues that algorithms have reintroduced monoculture: there was a period before the year 2000 when we had a monocult…

I don't think most frat boys are in the habit of quoting Adorno. And with this particular author, it's not always advisable to take everything at face value...

I also really enjoyed this more recent post by the same guy: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/welcome-to-hell Basically he makes the argument (I think slightly tongue in cheek) that…

I'm not sure entirely how serious the author is being here, but it's a very entertaining read - a history of various interpretations of Hell in theology and literatue, and an argum…

Doesn't he talk about precisely this in the first section?

Is it a highly political article? There's one short section on politics, but there's definitely nothing on Trump, and I don't see how his indictment is particularly relevant...