MIT philosopher; would-be self-help guru; master of the semi-colon; substack: http://bit.ly/-ksetiya; podcast: http://bit.ly/-five-q; home: http://bit.ly/-ks-home
Kieran Setiya
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Terrific writing by Greg Cwik on William Gass
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Magnificent writing about pain by William Giraldi @thebaffler.com
“Faustus, after all, was an academic who set out subversively to stretch the boundaries of human knowledge, but wound up squandering his talents … performing feats of necromancy in order to divert successive potentates even wealthier than the families of Greenblatt’s … Harvard students.”
“I would honestly prefer for a sentient AI to kill every last human being on the planet in some hideously gruesome way than for even one more of us to become the kind of amoral, thoughtless person-shaped vacancy that AI threatens to turn us all into.” — a sober assessment by Becca Rothfeld
“Given [his] ‘desire to speak with the dead’ … it’s a shame that [Greenblatt] didn’t recognise more of himself in Faustus.”
It’s been a while since I read a review like this: Michael Dobson on Stephen Greenblatt on Christopher Marlowe @lrb.co.uk
“My insomnia had no cause but its effects were everywhere, which is one of Aristotle’s definitions of God“: @vincenzo.bsky.social on terminal insomnia @yalereview.bsky.social
“My insomnia had no cause but its effects were everywhere, which is one of Aristotle’s definitions of God“: @vincenzo.bsky.social on terminal insomnia @yalereview.bsky.social
I talked to Chip Conley about moral philosophy and midlife
A book I very much need (and want) to read: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT, by @galbeckerman.bsky.social, coming April 21
