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Unqualified Reservations by Mencius Moldbug. Ebook links and full chronological archive. An introduction to neoreaction (NRx).
Required reading for the learned socialist. What is socialism but the ultimate expression of property rights?
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The Sonnette
In an effort to curb my voluability, let’s consider a poem of two stances of four and three lines for a total of seven or have a sonnet, with a clear Volta. A Sonnette“I was cured, all right.”—Alex DeLarge in Kubick’s A Clockwork OrangeIt’s not enough to be possessed.You must enter the Muse Formation Asylumto study all the symptoms, practiceall the forms this madness takes.Not an exorcism but…
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My New Informalism
How do I define myself? I’m not a new formalist although I love to attempt strict forms and play around a great deal with the American sonnet. Like a number of poets my age I fall almost too easily into tercets and quadrains, into an accentual verse. Rather than a strict line end rhyme scheme I love to play with a sonority of words within the line or across lines. If I rhyme it’s often in the…
I was ruminating on how Agree is very important in minimalism—the way earlier Chomskyan models were really obsessed with constituency, minimalism comes for feature matching, but there's so much recent work problematizing the mechanism of Agree (optionality, variation, anti-agreenent, valency changes not matching expected agreement patterns, etc) but still shoving these problems into a Minimalist framework where clearly the model isn't built for that, and I think it's very interesting seeing such people, who are often the type to say that [it's better to use models that can tackle the questions you're asking better, over the ones you just prefer from custom], doing this. I feel like some folks in particular are people who try to have an ethos of being pragmatic about modelling tools and being empirically grounded, but it's kind of disappointing to see no movement (heh) yet toward a new (or old!) model for these problems with agreement, while of course keeping Minimalism around for the problems it is very clearly quite good at resolving!
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R.I.P. - X.J. Kennedy, 'Epitaphs'
I who in life stood upright as a tree Have found a still more basic way to be. — Dirt was I made from, back to dirt I went. Envy me now. I’m in my element. — The hardest part of dying is to turn Your back on that deep calm for which you burn. ***** X.J. Kennedy, one the greatest and most active formalists of the late 20th century, died last week at the age of 96. Short pieces like his…
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Beyond Hume’s Guillotine
Descriptive and Prescriptive Formalism.—A formal language can be used to describe a given state-of-affairs (describing the properties of a state-of-affairs amenable to formalization) while object-formalism can reconstruct formal analogues of a given state-of-affairs (again, reconstructing only the formal aspects of the state-of-affairs in question). Insofar as we understand formalism as the capture of that which is given in intuition, the state-of-affairs, i.e., the intuition in question, always precedes the formalization. However, a formal language can also be used to assert what state-of-affairs ought to be, and object-formalism can demonstrate how states-of-affairs ought to be structured (both, again, only in regard to the formal properties of the state-of-affairs). Arguably, while in the intuitive conception of formalization the object to be formalized is always given beforehand, the prescriptive conception of formalization is always hovering in the background, pointing onward. While prescriptive formalism is less familiar than descriptive formalism, a little thought on the matter will reveal that every state-of-affairs that strains to attain an ideal, or any concept rationally reconstructed to supersede its naïve form, are prescriptive ideals that aspire to be embodied as a state-of-affairs. All predictive science can be assimilated to prescription if we understand experiments to be a test of whether the world is as it ought to be if it is consistent with a given theory.
