Justin Murphy

Why you should never count yourself out as a writer, especially in the internet era.

Reflections on Harold Bloom's How to Read and Why (2000)

I am asking you to quit all of your passive media consumption to read great books and write the truth every single day.

To say that one believes in God is to be stupid and wrong by the definition of these words in modern secular culture.

More shootouts have occurred in Texas than any other state in the US.

I got high in the morning, for the first time since I can remember.

Following on my post from yesterday, I've been thinking about how the widespread and often racist views of "welfare" in the United States — especially among poor whites — fester on top of the...

Right now, it’s still seen as bad taste to overly automate your personal social media — and for good reason.

I grew up in New Jersey, but I got out as soon as I graduated high school.

My take on Fully Automated Luxury Communism is that — if it is anything — it should probably look something like a Rousseauean techno-commercial cyber-manorialism.

The Other Life community is also known as the Imperceptible Country.

Libertatem hierarchia.

In 1955, Harvey Breit asked the great Irish-American writer Flannery O'Connor, "What is the secret of writing?"

When I recently sketched out a system for bootstrapping a libertarian communist society from a combination of AI and blockchain, I was genuinely surprised to receive so many indignant accusations to...

Philosophically, it is impossible to ground claims about the ultimate value or quality of living entities, e.g. genetic quality.

I mentioned last week I've been reading about the life of Ezra Pound, which is somehow both inspiring and sobering.

Christianity invented the concept of defending the victim.

I recently received the following question from a journalist (paraphrased): "Universities host many Islamist extremists as speakers, but they order comedians performing on campus to not offend...

Eric Weinstein has released his highly self-aggrandized anticipated research paper on geometric unity.

Riva Tez and Praxis Society just published a really lovely video, which I think deserves to be read as text.

This is the eleventh post in a series about the glorious completion of my academic career, the internet, and the future of intellectual life.

Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii (1995) by Nam June Paik

I've recently taken to the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson because he was arguably the first world-class public intellectual of a distinctly American type.

I have recently been assigned to an Ethics Reviewer position, and I just had my first training.

More educated individuals generally know more than less educated individuals.

This is the tenth post in a series about the glorious completion of my academic career, the internet, and the future of intellectual life.

The French sociologist Émile Durkheim believed that one defining feature of a profession is that the attitudes and behaviors that count as "professional" within it are of no interest to the general...

I was recently wondering whether countries with more centralized executive and legislative powers (less checks and balances) might have more status-intensive cultures — or in some way a qualitatively...

Samuel Johnson's Club.

Thanks to some good questions in last night's livestream, I managed to give a relatively concentrated hour of talking, with a surprisingly high signal/noise ratio (relative to my average, which isn't...

Once again, I'm absolutely plagued with a desire to quit everything normal, to mentally and socially withdraw from everything one is supposed to know...

I recently received an email challenging some of my past comments on depression and public political theorizing.

That graph is from the new book by political scientists Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart (2019), Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism.

Alexander Galloway thinks that Deleuze sees cybernetics as an enemy, or even the enemy:

This is the ninth post in a series about the glorious completion of my academic career, the internet, and the future of intellectual life.

Now that the book is a little more than 75% done, I figure I should start posting some excerpts.

Speak of the intellectual life and a lot of people will think you’re pretentious; they think you’re calling yourself intelligent.

Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942) by Piet Mondrian

The endpoint of the digital revolution is cyber-hype techonomics, the confluence of cyber-hype (the digital coordination of collective desire around the promise of a future outcome) and techonomics...

Money is a trap, but how?

I watched The White Lotus because my wife told me about it, and I saw people talking about it.

Oddities do not strike odd people.

I received this question recently from a reader.

Timothy Treadwell in Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005)

Over the past week, I’ve conducted more than ten private Skype interviews with a diverse group of internet intellectuals, “content creators” of the higher-brow variety, cancellation-vulnerable...

A few months ago, Martin Shkreli wrote a blog post from prison entitled, "Love is a Battlefield."

A fatal flaw of rationalism is that the spread of rational thinking often causes a net-decrease of rationality across the population.

Deleuze and Guattari repeatedly stress the importance of becoming imperceptible, but the idea remains poorly understood.

It is very clever how Moldbug chooses extra-provocative phrases and examples—for instance, extended reflections on the successful infrastructure projects of the Third Reich.

2 million full-time “content creators,” outside any professional sanction; the election of Donald Trump against an airtight media consensus certain of its impossibility; mass, hysterical preference...