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Aella & CJ Sittin in a Tree
[Recorded October 2025 post my SlutCon lecture on Sex, Eros & Seduction]Aella is a writer, blogger, sex worker and general internet legend. She is a major figure in the rationalist community and is known for her mind bending dives into kink, psychedelics, Christian fundamentalism and being overly sincere about every edgy.You can find her at her infamous site Knowingless, her modern cutting edge substack (https://aella.substack.com/), or on her controversial ever updated Twitter acct.We met throu...
A Conversation With W. David Marx on Status, Study, Critique, Experts & Adison Rae
(Recorded June 19th in Vancouver, 1 day before my YNGiAM Lecture at Rio Theatre)W. David Marx is a Tokyo based writer on fashion, culture, and the interdisciplinary, ever present pressure of status competition. He is the author of Status & Culture (2022), a wide ranging exhaustive synthesis of great thinkers on the subject of our innate drive for status, and a core source for one of my lectures and upcoming video essays. In this talk we do not cover any of his fundamentals of status at all. Inst...
Home Court Advantage: December Toronto Lectures (& Sudbury ON Nov 21st)
Hey all. Writing to you from Los Angeles (which is very wet and grey, not as promised). I just hosted a rather surreal star studded anti AI event which you will hear more about later. I've got a couple interviews in the chamber for this month in relation to an upcoming video essay. But right now I'm prepping for the final stretch of lectures back home.I'll be performing highly revised & tightened versions of my original 3 lectures, plus 3 brand new ones, all in a row between Dec 3-7 ...
2 free tix for San Francisco Fri Oct 10 Lecture, for minor volunteering things
coming 2 u live from Oakland ready to talk about civilizational decline on FridayKill The Internet Summit at BATS Improv almost sold out. Really looking forward to it.email cjthex@gmail.com if you're down to help with ticket scanning / Q&A mic holding in exchange for free tix. will be able to see the whole showBUY TIX
Interview with The Living Philosophy
New interview with the ever impressive James from The Living Philosophy channel. He's a friend and a really sharp thinker, and talkign to him always yields rather dense, emotional and unexpected results. Conversation explores dreams, trut, balancing intellectualism and artistry, passion vs. curiosity, restarting and relearning again and again and again, the burden of thinking out loud for other peoples consumption and criticism.A good snapshot into my life & thoughts post-lecture tour, with ...
The Gift: Conclusion - On Being Good Ancestors
I write to u from the throes of pestilence, sneezing coughing leaking outo f m y fuckin face. But all in perfect time with a full week to recover before I head to San Francisco to perform at the KTi Summit with Michael Burns nad Dr. Fatima (limited tix still avail)Done the book, donezo, complete.Let us review some choice quotes:"The patron’s support is not a wage or a fee for service but a gift given in recognition of the artist’s own." Thankf or your support on patreon.com/cjthex++/...
The Gift: Chapter 10 - The Life of Ezra Pound
What does it say about me that I enjoyed the chapter about the facist antisemetic traitor more htan the equanamious tragic gayThe fascist who goes in on it in the name of art I guess is just a bit archetypically attractive to my disposition, the crippling racism notwithstanding. Oh well, let's look at this life of misguided bigotry and passion!"Pound was firmly set in the habit of delivering his opinions without the benefit of elaboration.".....:::......,,,,,;;;;;;;;;----+Love this e...
The Gift: Chapter 8 + 9 - Walt Whitman's Entire Life Story For Some Reason (And Basically a CJ The X Essay on Intrinsic Valuation)
((This essay is readable by those who haven't read the book)){[For those like me who fell behind or waned in energy on this book, now is optimal time to rebound. Come to the end with me and we'll have the book in our blood forever.]}--Next Wednesday we'll do Chapter 10, then the week after we'll wrap it up with the Conclusion+Afterward. I have the original 80s edition so had to seek the afterward digitally.--...,.,.....,..,...,,,....,.,The second half of The Gift by Lewis Hyde co...
KTi Summit in San Francisco Friday Oct 10th: Featuring CJ The X, Dr. Fatima & Michael Burns
Dr. Fatima, Michael Burns and CJ The X give lectures and answer questions about our chaotic cultural climate, the ideas that got us here and How The Fuck we might move forward.Performing Friday October 10th @ the Bayfront Theatre in San Francisco CA.-> Tickets On Sale Now <-***^^^^^>>>.......,,,,;;;,Very happy to be supporting Fatima & Michael in their first liveshow and saying hi to San Francisco for the first time. I'll be performing a new lecture on the foundational ideas of Kill The Inte...
KTi BOOK REPORT: The Disappearance of Rituals
Live @ cjthex.com/reportsThank you annie, saba val and adison as always for the fantastic design work.>> ACCESS FULL BOOK REPORT <<PS. Walt Whitman chapter 9 of The Gift long af will post the thread when im done it
Featured in Sojourners Magazine
Michael Burns says he got arrested with these guys at a protest in DC back in the day
The Gift: Chapter 7 - Usury
every page of this chapter made me angrier! °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･꧁⎝ 𓆩༺✧༻𓆪 ⎠꧂I don't mean to be arrogantly critical of history through a single perspective, but just watching the concept of usury go from forbidden for moral purposes, to tribally used against enemies, to embarrassingly individualistic and psychological, was just hard to experience.As a protestant, it was also painful to watch how the post Reformation church align itself with the interests of capitalism to su...
Unfortunately I Will Be Going Into The Woods
No Town Hall tomorrow I'm going off grid offline alone to an undisclosed location for a weekNeed to read write rearrange uninterrupted For The Greater GoodI'll post The Gift book club thread tomorrow and get that back on track on Sundays. Peace
Google Alternatives & Bible Translations
Quite shockingly to me over the past couple days, despite my constant managing settings to disallow Google's Gemini AI to scan my data and force itself upon me, Google has twice in 4 days straight up filled my whole fucking screen with this prompt apropos of nothing! Autogenerating authorless AI Overviews on every other google search seemed not enough I suppose.I've moved from Google Chome to Firefox years ago, and now I'm pivoting to using DuckDuckGo instead of google search cause t...
Zoom Town Hall Postponed to Sunday Aug 31st
hey all, apologies but need to push the town hall livestream a week. Got a bit too much on my plate this weekend, legs wobbling under the weight, trying to orient myself going forward. It's not bad, I've got a video, songs and a 3 part essay KTi manifesto all bubbling, but I seem to be struggling to figure out how to do everything when it all feels so urgent. Productive depressive episode, if it makes sense. I presume I'll be in a better headspace for talking by next Sunday.All the b...
ALBUM: A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships - The 1975
click my collage to get it high qualitylink yours below some way or another, love seeing them.++++-____````~~~~~~}}_+Album of the August 2025 is The 1975's 2018 release ABIIORBeloved by many as a genre spanning insightful celebration of the modern moment, as well as a place where you can feel irritated at Matt Healy if you desire to do so<3The 1975This rendition of their album motif melts by fuckking face off everyt imeGive Yourself A TryLate twenties anthem, great Joy Division rip off, incr...
2025 Lecture Tour Debrief: Unpacking The Cosmo Lightning Brain Experience
Streaming this Sunday 5pm EST.If you were at any of the lectures, drop your questions here and I'll focus on em. Will reflect on some selected emails that have already been sent in over the last couple months too.Brain full ready to rip.x
A Conversation With Nadia Asparouhova
Nadia is the author of Working In Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software (2020) and Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading (2025). I also highly recommend her Web 1.5 independent Tweet streak on her personal website between 2018-2020. Tons of gold. https://nadia.xyz/notes/ I cited Nadia's first book in my video On Online Entitlement and have been a big fan of her work for years. It was a real pleasure to finally speak with her. We talk about both of her books, our ...
MOVIE: On Falling (2024)
About a woman from Portugal living in Scotland.Directorial debut by Laura Carreira, starring Joana Santos.Give it a watch if you haven't and pick a couple things to taste in the comments for communal nourishment.Describe it as it is before explaining what its About, and talk about more than whether or not you liked it.+++++++++This movie brought back a lot of vivid memories of being in a very different place in life. Familiar depictions of Scottish society, including some frustrating bits ab...
AUGUST 2025: im back
I'm home as hell from my first lecture tour & vacation.Patreon Communal Events of August 2025:Thursday 7th: Movie of the Month Discussion Thread [On Falling (2024)]Sunday 10th: Public Livestream Taking Lecture Questions @ 5pm ESTThursday 14th: Album of the Month Collage+Reflection Thread [Brief Inquiry (2018)]Sunday 24th: Patreon Zoom Town Hall Q&A @ 4pm EST----+++'''''::::::+++______Watch the film on your own then come share your thoughts and feels in the August 7th disc...
If you can't attend the show tomorrow, request a refund to automatically give it 2 the Waiting List !༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
There's a waiting list for the sold out Leicester Square Theatre show! So if you request a refund directly from Leicester Square Theatre they will automatically make your ticket available to someone else who wants it. Saying this for the benefit of a few people who can't attend and are trying to sell their ticket directly through social media / the Patreon networking thread. If that works thats chill & good but just fyi you also have this other option. Don't let your ticket go to was...
2025 UK Lecture Crowd Connections
I've gotten a few requests from people attending the upcoming lectures for some way to plan stuff with other attendees around the show. Many people are travelling, attending alone, or just looking to pre-game / debrief / dress up together or whatever.I am famously hesitant to facilitate open access fan forums around my work , but I relate to the plight of those sincerely wanting to do what feels natural by connecting with the other eager people at these lectures. And I'm out here discour...
The Gift: Chapter 6 - A Female Property
[me in Variety Bar on Sauchiehall st Glasgow, where I had drank vodka on the rocks in 2015]Salutations readers, we are here a week late because we are busy and I am in Scotland with family, friends, and the greatest job in the world. Reaping the riches of the previous 6 months of Grown Up Work. Cashing cheques, solo travelling, performing things I have prepared and polished at great financial, social, spiritual expense. It simply could not be more worth it.Follow ur dreams. It might take 26 year...
Slideshow Summit II today 4:30 EST
Here's the link for today! Some lovely presentations about art, video games, & theology.See you there.https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86216188118?pwd=tsILljewe7WYsp3SzC8mwKb7kSom7n.1
The Gift: Chapter 5 - The Gift Community
rare makeup-less pic, morning after hang w friends where ppl slept over and we did tarot readings that revealed our soulsNOTE: i'm only doing chapter 5, because it is a lot to chew on, and I and many others are busy. I think we will reduce down to a one chapter a week schedule for now. I am undergoing my final lecture development phase this week, in anticipation of my Toronto performance. Soon I will have 3 complete 100+ min lectures on how to build new societies in our fucking war mongering...
BOOK CLUB - The Gift Ch 3 & 4
(Submit a Selfie for the Book Report here!)Book Reports are digital zines we create for each book. celebrating and remembering ur contributions in this time of life that none of us will get back.=+{Often a large portion of the book club participants don't submit their photos at the end of a book reading bc of guilt about not finishing the book or finishing it late, or just forgetting after losing momentum etc. so we're capturing you here in Week 2 from now on instead. If u obtained the b...
BOOK CLUB: The Gift Intro - Ch2
"unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved.* Furthermore, when gifts circulate within a group, their commerce leaves a series of interconnected relationships in its wake, and a kind of decentralized cohesiveness emerges."* It is this element of relationship which leads me to speak of gift exchange as an "erotic" commerce, opposing eros (the principle of attraction, union, involvement which binds together) t...
Zoom Town Hall 4:30 EST Today
Here's the link to the livestream. Will be talking then taking calls.https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88009746387?pwd=vpFnbqAbqBvvbbzHxswK2agVZjV0nd.1
Kiki Video Back Online
https://youtu.be/d5mO-obJdTQ?si=D5Z-G4Thvjnm7Xk0Leicester Square Theatre in London is sold out.>:]
Update From Brooklyn
Hey yall! Kiki video has been in counterclaim world for 10 days, so if all goes as expected it should be reinstated publicly tomorrow (?) or soon or whatever. In the meantime, this copyright strike has been wonderful for my business, as I welcome all the hundreds of new patrons!patreon aint been the mecca it regularly is as I am doing Way Too Much™ with lectures and another EP and video and research, but we've got a few things to rely on here:ZOOM TOWN HALL: JUNE 1st at 4:30pm ESTThis is a...
