Sudoscience

This is a blog documenting various aspects of my experience in the world. I used to be a programmer. I am now a student. I live in Marseille, France.

It will consist of typically long-form (though occasionally shorter) pieces containing observations of variable quality, pertaining to my understanding of the given topic. It makes no effort to be newsworthy, scientific, or even unpolemical. It certainly avoids the trap of meaningless statements like "be logical." What it does attempt, instead, is to demonstrate the separation between text and interpretation.

My training, insofar as I have any formal instruction that goes beyond the woefully limited nature of compulsory education, privileges the artistic. Thus, many of the posts I make on this site, besides being opinionated, will often include the remarks of other writers and thinkers. These are not arguments from authority, though they appear to be. Sometimes, more often, they reflect a particular interest I had at the time of writing. With respect to their committments, and my own, this statement succinctly describes them: "I do not have the talent for being loyal and, what is worse, not even the vanity to seem to be."

Wittgenstein says almost immediately in the Tractatus that he will not provide references for his work—it is "indifferent" to him if others have thought the same thoughts before he did. That's all to the good for a skillful and intelligent being like Wittgenstein; for my part, I set great store by antecedent writings, as they are almost the only means by which I can acquire a foothold, however scant, upon the subject at hand. With that said, citing sources will not be a regular feature of this blog. Why? I would like to avoid lapsing into a dull recapitulative habit that first admits of needing a bibliography; furthermore, it seems to me that the effort of tracking down corroborative material has a deleterious effect on style that I take great pains to avoid.