(PDF) Burrows R. Urban Futures and The Dark Enlightenment: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed. In: Keith Jacobs and Jeff Malpas, ed. Towards a Philosophy of the City: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323556435_Burrows_R_Urban_Futures_and_The_Dark_Enlightenment_A_Brief_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_In_Keith_Jacobs_and_Jeff_Malpas_ed_Towards_a_Philosophy_of_the_City_Interdisciplinary_and_Transcultural_Perspectives_ …
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Plenty of quibbles, but by the standard of these things it's at least comparatively calm.
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Re: quibbles, well yes. It purports to describe the world, in fact merely describes their own tastes. Still, it rises to the standard of not lying about those tastes. And yes, commendably lacking in hysterics.
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The framing crime-by-association smear of Anna's book is both lazy and disgraceful, though. He doesn't even quote it, merely insinuating contamination, before spiraling down into the contaminant.
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... In his defense, it has to hurt to be a member of history's most incompetent priest caste (as both he and Nagle understand they are).
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Is there a progressive who does not intellectually disgrace themselves with regularity? They have to be graded on a curve.
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By the way, how -did- you find Moldbug? Someone email it to you? Random trawling of the internet? I found it from a Reddit post referring to 2Blowhards, back when smart people still used Reddit.
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Maybe from his arguments with Auster? Not really able to recall.
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Honestly that guess is good enough. I'm more interested at the [sort-of-thing] level, I'm not trying to write an object-level biography.
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