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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this essay, "Saved by Infinite Jest," is the most personal & vulnerable piece I've written. It's a surreal honor to see it in @aeonmag today. I'm so grateful to my amazing editor @samhaselby for believing it was worth sharing & empowering me to share it 🖤
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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?
One of my favorite essays + the reason no one ever needs to write about total eclipses again. 🌑💫
DJing as editing time 🔥 @DJJeffMills 🙏🏾✨💫
“Being a DJ and producer makes you better at editing time, and you become more attuned to what could be—or should be—done.” Techno's most vaunted architect, Jeff Mills (@DJJeffMills) talks night work, lifespans, and the influence of Tony Allen. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/j…
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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.
Thank you! And thank you @davidchalmers42 for all the inspo :)
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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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…
Thanks @RealClearBooks for sharing my piece on illness, pain, and @JenniferLFeeley's @nyrbclassics translation of "Mourning a Breast" by Xi Xi in @clereviewbooks. 'Embodiment as Enigma' is linked below :)
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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.
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
clereviewofbooks.com/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. clereviewofbooks.com/writing…
Twin Peaks: the Return is truly @DAVID_LYNCH’s MO, magnum opus.🥹🙏🏾 – at Brooklyn, NY
closed out this beautiful issue of @thedrift_mag with more ~BPD content~ and some broader thoughts on writing about therapy ✨
If you’d like a deeper look at BPD: for the @LAReviewofBooks, I poured my heart out in the essay “Transcendent Luminescence, Ravaging Flames: On Alexander Kriss’s ‘Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder.’”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
+ I had so much fun discussing BPD on @wearemolten’s 🔥 new podcast Basket Case, with fabulous host Nicole Kelly, in the recent episode “not the person anyone wants to be.” 🔥🔥🔥
iheart.com/podcast/1119-bask… – at Brooklyn, NY
