The HEC will be producing works of cultural commentary to reconcile opposing sides, in conjunction with hosting salon-style spaces for people to talk about important issues and difficult ideas while resisting their reflexive reduction to existing ideological oppositions. We also seek to create new forms of dialectical mediation between opposing viewpoints in Western society, and point the way to solutions that transcend reduction and polarization produced by the status quo. As a women-led initiative, the HEC seeks to prioritize women’s voices in critiquing stereotyped political logic from a socially grounded perspective.
On the other hand free drinks
i actually hate new york so much
Da big apple baybee greatest city innaworld go mets
last time i was there i saw an ad like 'we’re the greatest city in the world because of whatever ’
and i thought fuck… these people actually believe this
I went to NYC for a job interview and they took me to a salad place for lunch. A big delivery truck rolled up and sat idling blasting exhaust from its pre-2000s muffler straight into the doorway. The interviewer just continued to sit there smiling looking at me like a robot as I struggled to breathe and everybody’s lifespans perceptibly shortened by several years. That’s when I realized, people in New York City cannot fuck.
What other city has as many rats as we do, I ask you?
Philly
Philly wishes it had a tenth of our glorious rodents
True
The chad Philadelphia vs the virgin New York.
I struggle to think of something I’d want to go to less than… Wait it’s free drinks? Alright sign me up.
They’ll stiff you after the first watered down vodka-coke or 330ml can if warm beer.
There will never be Zoomer Redscare
Babe wake up, it’s time for a revival of right hegelianism with egirl characteristics
I’m way too himbo to understand what this all means, but did they ever miss the boat to call themselves shE-gelians
EDIT: Himbo senses tingling. Went looking for the “Beyond Woke and Problematic” and he’s a fucking Nazi.
The dude is subtle, but he leaks like a sieve.
showing up with a bag of bagels and looking really disappointed
Wait why is this
? Is there a new dog whistle I need to learn?I’m afraid so. This is a bunch of cryptofash nonsense that is Red Scare/Dimes Square adjacent probably has Peter Thiel money behind it somehow
It can’t be rs, there isn’t a no fat people allowed clause
There is a no armpit hair clause though
Absolutely rancid vibes
Rancid with a thin and artifical patina of aesthetic sweetness, like bottom shelf rice liquor someone tried to flavor with melted skittles
I hate you for showing this to me
I would need a fellow hexbearian to go with so I could roll my eyes at and shit talk under my breath with
Same!
“Beyond Woke and Problematic” sound like the stage names the Red Scare dumbasses would come up with to do a neo-tradCath version of Diamond & Silk’s schtick
Wow, Haela Hunt-Hendrix happens to be the lead woman of one of my favorite bands. Liturgy, a “transcendental black metal” band which everyone who likes metal should go ahead and check out
I know she’s mentioned Hegel and Marx before and definitely doesn’t read as a reactionary to me, but all of her gnostic kabbalah Christian mysticism stuff is completely inscrutable to me. All her philosophical ramblings post-Aesthetica make the Transcendental Black Metal manifesto seem completely straightforward and completely devoid of pretense.
(“Pretentious” isn’t exactly the right word, she seems 100% genuine about whatever it is she’s getting at, but you can definitely tell she’s a Yale philosophy major with a masters that thinks her “arkwork” concept is like the idea behind Scriabin’s “Mysterium” where the Wagnerian idea of gesamtkunstwerk creates some kind of religious revelatory mystical effect on its audience or something. There’s a track on Renihilation that’s a direct reference to Mysterium IIRC. Really interesting and deeply odd person. Also the great(?)granddaughter of a Poppy Bush affiliated Texan oil baron fortune.)
I cant understand any of her philosphic ramblings. However the live show was outstanding, I love most of their album art and some of their songs are beautiful. ‘god of love’ is one of my favorite tracks of all time.
“Harmonia”, “Glory Bronze” and “True Will” have been my favorites. I should revisit The Ark Work and HÆLL or whatever Liturgy did after Aesthetica, they didn’t really stick with me once she started incorporating more electronic stuff and for lack of a better term ‘mumble rap’ stuff with glitchy choir/pipe organ shit, but maybe there’s something there and it’ll click upon a revisit.
It’s mostly glitchy choir pipe organ shit tbh but also at least one of the recent albums has an orchestra as well. Origin of the alimonies is worth a listen.
Thanks
I’ll give it another shot and see if I come out on the other side transcendental kabbalah gnostic-pilled or whatever
For anyone that kinda likes Liturgy, I’d recommend Wolves in the Throne Room, Krallice, Ash Borer and Panopticon. I’d plug Vildhjarta too even though they’re much more post-Meshuggah proggy death metal/djent milleu than weird black metal, but they scratch the same itch to me that some of Liturgy’s hypnotic and overlaying rhythm parts accomplish but with super low chunky baritone guitar riffs instead of layered tremolo picked black metal leads.
Thanks for the recommendations!
She’s from a prominent bourgeoisie family, the Hunts helped create the professional sports industry in the US and originally made their fortune in oil. It tracks, unfortunately, in the way that this all reads as some bougie nonsense. I love the music too tho
Damn that actually makes a shit load of sense. Kinda sad but at least she got the financial backing to make such interesting music. Tbh I always liked the aesthetic and triggering my parents with anything that had weird cross imagery
what even is this? Like beyond the hellish vibes this has going on (and I just know it has some horrible red scare/dimes square connection which I was hoping died off), what do I see if I go to this? Will it just be some woman who calls herself “Beyond Woke and Problematic” droning on about Hegel at me for an hour and a half?
I try to figure out who these people are and I just follow links to these random substacks full of articles with titles like “Notes 6/29/24” where they ramble on and on about nothing with no clear purpose. The most irony-poisoned, masturbatory, faux-intellectual posturing I’ve ever read in my life. I honestly feel pity at these peoples’ existence, life must be a living hell for them. Are these the children of privilege, overeducated at the country’s most elite institutions now with nothing to do in their lives but cosplay as postmodern Downtown philosophers? What do these people actually do? Like, how are they notable, and why should I care about their thoughts on Hegel? Or what they think at all?
The writing also sucks ass.
There’s a series of scenes from the show The Sopranos where the mob wives try to be sophisticated and “elevate” themselves beyond the status of dormant, spoiled wives of criminals.
They have brunch and movie clubs. But they always become bored, create echo chambers supporting each other’s nonsensical analyses, or they just end up with conversations about vanity.
Cagney was modernity
