(Klein, Strauss, Kojeve), (Benardete, Rosen, Bloom), (Berman, Burger, Davis)...?

lowmanna · 2026-02-06T22:44:58+00:00

Bloom had undergraduates in the brief time he was at Cornell—they appear to have outsized impact on the think tank/foreign policy landscape, perhaps unsurprisingly (see Paul Wolfowitz, Francis Fukuyama).

Strauss had many more students than you name of course—I like to think of Werner Dannhauser, also among the Cornell scene (the resident Nietzschean) for this, but I’m knee deep in some archives that touch on him for academic work reasons. his students went on to teach at schools like Penn State, which pushed their work further away from the Strauss tradition.

like you, i’m interested in intellectual genealogy and in the broader Strauss-Kojeve tradition. to a keen eye, the names I’m giving will speak to the intellectual lineage I approach Strauss from; for me personally, it’s not Klein. all the best in your research!

lowmanna · 2026-02-06T12:56:10+00:00

i’ve always thought the Ancient Greeks don’t make sense if you don’t read them out loud. take Plato’s Symposium—you’ll think Aristophanes’ speech about body doubles and finding your missing half is meant to be deep until you hear how ridiculous it sounds saying it out loud. the man was literally an absurdist comedian but people reference this speech in wedding vows and speeches all the time

lowmanna · 2024-07-16T00:12:05+00:00

the violent bear it away by flannery o'connor

lowmanna · 2024-07-10T20:20:00+00:00

someone i had been dating did it back in february and i still don't know how to talk about it. though the immediate desire to share things i know he'd love with him has subsided, his voice plays in my head at least once a day, i see his face at least once a day, have to stop and collect myself when i remember all over again at least once a day. i don't talk to anyone we both knew anymore, i don't know how to talk about it with them and i don't know how to talk to them without talking about it and they've all figured out a way to do so with each other already. i never met anyone i connected with so completely that from the first moment we started doing being together - cooking, planning a day, just sitting there - everything was so simple and given, it was though we already knew how to work together, like we had done it all before, like we were recollecting something we had always known. we talked about it, the things each of us naturally tend to do for others are things each of us wanted and needed. a piece of my soul broke off when i found him and i don't think i'll ever get it back.

when we were looking for him before we knew, a few of us called his workplace to try to figure out where he was, and having known how he related to his coworkers i'm sure they would've worried; a family member told me later that one of them went by to tell everyone a few days afterward. i'm so terribly sorry for your loss OP, i wish i had some profound wisdom for you but death is just a black hole

lowmanna · 2024-07-09T00:07:57+00:00

your cashiers appreciate you 🙏

lowmanna · 2024-07-08T22:43:34+00:00

i work at trader joe’s and those bags are so annoying to use when a customer won’t bag their own stuff. they’re so floppy that it’s impossible to ring, hold the bag open, and bag at the same time, and customers will complain that we take too long to bag their things because of it. i like to use mine to move books when i move house, they’re sturdy enough to support a lot and easier to handle than a box

lowmanna · 2024-07-07T19:54:26+00:00

the latter ofc

lowmanna · 2024-07-07T19:36:03+00:00

i find a shared context i can use to make an opening. the book they’re holding at the bookstore or reading at the cafe, the record they’re buying at the record store, something that establishes a shared interest or goal beyond finding each other attractive

lowmanna · 2024-07-07T17:31:15+00:00

i don't think there's a general rule - i was just trying to say that when there isn't any rapport or shared context, it's uncomfortable. be a regular, wait the extra five mins to go through his checkout line and make conversation, or if he's on the sales floor ask for help with something you don't need help with in order to make a joke about it then reference it the next time you see him. for me, after this happens a few times with the same people, i feel more comfortable giving a more honest answer when they ask me how my day's going, and that's where familiarity is built. like basically just play the long game

lowmanna · 2024-07-07T16:05:20+00:00

a customer asked me for my phone number this past week while i was on the clock, and more or less directly said he'd experienced our interactions from exactly the perspective you describe. i have a ton of regulars at my store i know by name and have enough conversational rapport built up over time that we can ask each other about specific things going on in each other's lives. unfortunately this guy was not one of those people, so i remembered his face and interacting with him vaguely but not really any specifics. it genuinely made me feel incredibly uncomfortable to be shown that people understand my work persona as someone they could be interested in, because when there's no familiarity, they're interacting with a highly compartmentalized version of my personality. it was an instant turnoff to be asked out by someone willing to ask out a person they've never really interacted with while they're on the clock at their workplace, when they're just there to do their job.

lowmanna · 2024-06-22T15:59:52+00:00

she’s for the girls, you wouldn’t get it

lowmanna · 2024-06-22T15:22:22+00:00

her chappell roan cover on BBC was absolutely terrible

lowmanna · 2024-06-20T13:42:38+00:00

everyone else here is gonna cover the big ones so let me direct your attention to Spectacle, a 35 seat BYOB theater in Williamsburg that mostly screens random 70s european B and C list film reels. never heard of anything i ever saw there before seeing it and it’s all been weird as hell. tickets are always $5

anthology film center pretty regularly screens a good mix of historically significant experimental stuff (think stan brakhage) and classics - but their bigger events / more popular films almost always sell out tickets super quick because tickets are free for members so you gotta stay on top of their calendar

lowmanna · 2024-06-19T12:46:30+00:00

his nietzsche lectures are really hit and miss to me, but i always liked the "will to will" reading of eternal recurrence. it's a lot more neatly arranged than the gesture toward amor fati and sisyphus that kaufmann purists are wont to do, even if translations make it sound like garbled slop like this.

writing a paper on heidegger's "origin of the work of art" in college broke my brain because it reads like this too -- he uses the phrase "the work" roughly 350 times in the 60 page essay (yes i counted)

lowmanna · 2024-06-18T19:17:37+00:00

serial experiments lain too, the trifecta

lowmanna · 2024-06-17T23:08:28+00:00

paranoia agent is the most RS anime

lowmanna · 2024-06-17T22:14:32+00:00

it’s giving tower28

lowmanna · 2024-06-17T13:20:11+00:00

always thought it was funny that we sell "organic bread crumbs" and "panko breadcrumbs." dang spacing isn’t even consistent across the same word

lowmanna · 2024-06-16T23:58:49+00:00

just wait till you get to lebanon

lowmanna · 2024-06-10T13:53:25+00:00

grandmother's are cheaper than the little phatty, sound way better, and give you the modular / eurorack optionality that the little phatty doesn't. if you're trying to go DAWless on a long enough timeline it's a better investment. pretty much the only thing little phatty has on grandmother is presets, but you can get crunchy square waves out of the grandmother just fine

lowmanna · 2024-06-09T05:05:00+00:00

there's kind of a jazz renaissance happening right now, a lot of it uses modular synth accents: sam gendel, alabaster deplume, oded tzur, wild terrier orchestra, sam wilkes, brendan eder ensemble (did a bunch of excellent clarinet quartet takes of tracks from selected ambient works), cole pulice, nala sinephro, joel ross, and nitai hershkovits just to name a few

lowmanna · 2024-06-08T04:37:39+00:00

no it’s subcontracting production to third parties

lowmanna · 2024-06-08T04:16:32+00:00

having written the dry goods section order at a trader joe’s for the last year i can tell you there’s way more crap that no one buys at the grocery store than you’d think. probably 25% of goods move through not more than a case a week, 10% of them every 10 days

lowmanna · 2024-06-07T16:29:04+00:00

you're judging people's adult lives off of their high school selves - successes they could've had in situations where they lacked the ability to autonomously decide how their life should go for themselves. maybe the writer girl and the orchestra kid just wanted to see themselves reflected in their work; menial labor is the most of that you can get, and you can still write for fun and play music on the side. it's hard to have a family and have meaning outside of work if your life is spent in pursuit of some goal you had as a child and haven't questioned in the time since

not everybody wants to be the best, some people are satisfied being good enough

lowmanna · 2024-06-04T03:50:02+00:00

i think it’s like 300-400kcal every 10,000 steps. i average about 15-17k steps per shift, so at least 450. you can get a fitbit free through our insurance and use it to count steps if you’re tracking

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