A Toast: I am thankful for the kindness, wisdom, and joyful willingness to elevate good work in philosophy and letters of @_ryanruby_ . As a Thanksgiving treat, Moral Minority is proud to present our conversation with him on Frederic Jameson and his new book, Context Collapse.

@rc_wisehack There wasn’t any sarcasm. It is objectively a culturally valued event in America and I’m not completely ignorant of its mechanics and the teams involved because it’s hard not to absorb these things growing up in America. I just don’t care about it at all, but many people do.

@posters_think I’ve had roommates steal my car, have sex in front of me, neglect their cat to the point of necessary medical intervention. You deserve better. Get out.

@eleanoir I think it’s a low bar, but I don’t disagree.

This was my second ever guest appearance on a podcast (of which I am a longtime fan) and it was a free-flowing delight to talk about one of the great philosophical and artistic loves of my life.

@Palomar_qfwfq The “BPD girlfriend” has become a trope of formative heteronormative romantic experience.

@pourfairelevide What is this headline?!

@bengrossbg ❤️

@peligrietzer I always prop a book up on a table or lean it against something anyway, so no. It requires you use a bookmark and have some familiarity with academic footnoting practices, which any middlebrow reader already does.

@peligrietzer Reverse that and you’re on point. He’s a high modernist that’s as physically hard to read as a middlebrow novelist:

@peligrietzer It’s a cyclical thing for me. Self-loathing is for certain seasons.

Happiness coincides with goodness. A mistake that we owe to the austerity of Kant’s Protestant-inflected ethics of purified will is that moral goodness is bifurcated from goodness per se. It will make you happier to do good things, but this includes aesthetic and personal goods.

@aliner Well, now I have to read it.

We’re a bit behind in putting out the next episode of Moral Minority. The second half of B&N is dedicated to demonstrating how we have responsibility to other existents. Existential phenomenology feels indulgent, and yet the call of the Other is always a salient ethical concern.

@eleanoir I drink it. It’s good.

@posters_think Do you consider phenomological incongruence—e.g. the feeling of being out of place, of something not fitting—a category that includes the experience of gender dysphoria or rather truly a definitional specification of dysphoria as a psychological and existential state?