Adam Robbert @AE_Robbert
Askēsis | Attention is an art form | Philosophy as a way of life | Building @theorosproject | Founded @TheSideViewCo | Substack: https://t.co/ezQigN5ewR aerobbert.com Bay Area Joined November 2011-
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"Since the Substantiality (ousia) that is generated is form [. . .] the One is necessarily formless. And being without form, it is not Substance (ousia). For Substance must be a ‘this something’, and this is defined. But it is not possible to grasp the One as a ‘this’. For in…
My latest Substack addresses mystical experiences and psychedelics. Thinking about Aldous Huxley on psychedelics, the structural homology between mescaline and the theology of “gratuitous grace,” and the neglect of habitual grace open.substack.com/pub/simonekotv…
There are so many good essays in this collection, but we need to have a real conversation about font sizes and margins.
Bernard Stiegler
A friend of mine is traveling through Europe and sent me these photos of the “The Usuard’s Martyrology” (15th century), from a gallery in Girona, Spain. I have to say, the colors and proportions and script really work for me. The aesthetics just feel immediately “right.”
Going international.
Everything goes, everything comes back: eternally rolls the wheel of Being. Everything dies, everything comes up again, eternally runs the year of Being. Everything breaks, everything is put together anew; eternally the same house of Being builds itself. Everything parts,…
The hills dried up like they always do, but summer never quite hit its heights this year. Very mild.
This is the text from Hadot’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Therein he describes himself as homo novus, literally a “new man,” but more to the point, a “newcomer” or an “outsider.” The Romans apparently used this phrase to describe a person who was the first from…
This is the text from Hadot’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Therein he describes himself as homo novus, literally a “new man,” but more to the point, a “newcomer” or an “outsider.” The Romans apparently used this phrase to describe a person who was the first from…
Back into this gem then.
Lecture No. 5 Attention Is an Art Form by @AE_Robbert
I’ll be in Toronto giving a talk on September 24 as part of The Viaduct speakers series. Details and tickets below. Check it out if you’re in the area.
I’ll be in Toronto giving a talk on September 24 as part of The Viaduct speakers series. Details and tickets below. Check it out if you’re in the area.
We've been trying out a new (old?) format for online philosophical inquiry that we're calling Disputations. Disputations is a structured dialogue series that I’ve been developing with my friend and colleague Jacob Given. As the name suggests, we’ve taken inspiration from the…
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