天御応命

Goddamn this student managed to perfectly balance minimal courtesy and the sheer insolence of undergraduates within two sentences. It goes something like “Should I skip all the lectures and tutorials? I am so sorry for this inconvenience.”

0.0004% chance of a legendary mask with Carrie Lam’s face printed on it.

Since people are now fighting over toilet rolls, I recommend the government implement a loot box system and begin airdropping crates with a 0.05% chance of said crates containing a mask and 0.1% of said crates containing toilet rolls.

Honestly, if these undergraduates know how to be angry at the teaching staff, who on the one hand, serves them and yet on the other, is of a higher social standing than them, ones expect them to be more anarchistic - and yet here they are, staying around in universities.

An academic, in this sense, is of no difference from an idol in a wider franchise. It is not so much that we are paid to dance but that certain consumers are naive enough to one-sidedly pay us for useless services.

Responsibility is irreconcilable with the entertainment industry, that is, the university. It is nothing short of fetishism for an academic to think she is imparting something valuable to her students - for whatever she teaches is valuable to none save those who stay in academia.

The easiest way to hype up a literary studies thesis is by titling it “zombie consciousness” ‘cause Derrida made spectres lame - and the instant others realise that’s a *literary studies* thesis, the hype will instantly die.

One must wonder how it is that so many locals now seem to insist upon a distinction between “human lives” and “operational costs”, and yet they have never done anything to prove this distinction valid - that they are still happily nestled in various power structures.

To say Berkeley was a solipsist is to say that an university needs undergraduate students to survive - ideas don’t exist solely in one mind, just as university can choose to make certain years of students expendable.

What discerns a university teaching staff from an idol? Both exist to furnish gawking consumers with memories - both entice said consumers into paying exuberant sums for services rendered needless upon graduation except in the rare cases of postgraduates.

Time to whip out that mic I bought back when I was trying to make YouTube contents years ago and turn my tutorials into ASMR

It’s not insomnia when the a priori condition for sleep is the total cessation or activities qualifying as waking life experientially associated with the familist complex in your vicinities.

Gotta say while I hate Meillassoux, the whole sceptico-fideism thing is one hell of a way to euphemize “If being a philosopher means I can’t shit on anything simply because it’s called ‘the Other’, then I’m quitting this job”.

Upon rewatching Psycho-Pass 2 it’s dawned on me that one of the reasons people hated it was probably ‘cause it lacked an surreally hot guy with white hair who reads books and looks smart. That joke made about Rick & Morty can be made concerning season 1 then, only seriously.

Fuck should have censored Del-uze.

The way otaku culture treats anime is no different from how Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze, and now Harman and Morton think of art as something somehow exceptional, or from how parents in Hong Kong desperately try to get their kids to acquire an authentic English accent.

That Taiwanese activist on camera reading Karatani That Hong Kong activist on camera reading Zizek Not Fanon because they love their white masks thank you very much, Not Land because like every revolutionary in Chinese dynasties, they want a new emperor.