#mark o'connell

[catholicxknees]

Taking Back Sunday for Kerrang - August 30th, 2023 (1/3)

📷 Ashley Osborn

#taking back sunday #tbs #152 #2023 #adam lazzara #john nolan #mark o'connell #shaun cooper #esom #mine #those are my emotional support old men 😭❤

[lazzarachan]

Taking Back Sunday in a Verizon ad in Alternative Press Magazine, August 2006.

#taking back sunday #adam lazzara #eddie reyes #mark o'connell #fred mascherino #matt rubano #emo #pop punk #post-hardcore #alternative #louder now #i've been wanting this forever

[myblueheavens]

Taking Back Sunday for IHeartRadio (11.02.23)

#taking back sunday #tbs #they're just dudes bein bros! #i love them #adam lazzara #john nolan #shaun cooper #mark o'connell

[yourfavealbumisgender]

Louder Now by Taking Back Sunday is AroAce!

requested by anon

#request #album #louder now #aroace #aromantic #asexual #aro #ace #taking back sunday #tbs #adam lazzara #fred mascherino #Mark O'Connell #eddie reyes #matt rubano #alternative rock #emo #pop punk #post hardcore

[washingtonsqpark]

Taking Back Sunday Bowery Ballroom 11.13.23

#taking back sunday #adam lazzara #mark o'connell #john nolan #shaun cooper #152 #my show

[mtron5000]

this photoshoot ok I'll be quiet

(i know im never getting out of Belleville)

#adam lazzara #john nolan #mark o'connell #eddie reyes #shaun cooper #ok im done now

[makedamnasssure]

Adam Lazzara live

#taking back sunday #adam lazzara #emo #john nolan #fred mascherino #matt rubano #eddie reyes #jesse lacey #shaun cooper #mark o'connell #my chemical romance #brand new

[fullc0llapse]

found some oooold photos of tbs i havent seen anywhere. mid-2002 or so?

photos taken by brian woodward. clearly.

#taking back sunday #02 #adam lazzara #john nolan #mark o'connell #shaun cooper #eddie reyes #rly cant tell what or who im looking at im just trusting the photogs word on this one #archive #tbs #pic

[acasternaut]

oh my GOD

#get sillay #taking back sunday #shaun cooper #john nolan #adam lazzara #mark o'connell #nathan cogan #pictures #red talks

[melittarilow]

Baby Taking Back Sunday give us a tour of their humble abode (a quaint 15-passenger Ford). Featuring several sets of big headphones, Mark’s Long Island accent, John emerging from a cocoon of blankets, and general sweetness.

#ngl I watch this video and I understand why wendy loves the lost boys so much #i want to kiss you all and also take a shop vac to your home #taking back sunday #tbs #tell all your friends #adam lazzara #john nolan #mark o'connell #shaun cooper #eddie reyes #Youtube

[ch3rryspace]

#adam lazzara #mark o'connell #taking back sunday #gifs #mine: gifs #created: 2015 #person: adam lazzara #person: mark o'connell #band: taking back sunday #post: gifset #source: louder now partone

[catholicxknees]

📷 Ashley Osborn

#taking back sunday #tbs #adam lazzara #john nolan #mark o'connell #shaun cooper #2023 #152 #mine #sweet kings 🥺💖

[lazzarachan]

Single CD cover for "You're So Last Summer" by Taking Back Sunday, 2003.

#taking back sunday #adam lazzara #fred mascherino #matt rubano #mark o'connell #eddie reyes #emo #post-hardcore #pop punk

[myblueheavens]

Taking Back Sunday "You're So Last Summer" video shoot, august 24th, 2003.

#tbs #taking back sunday #adam lazzara #matt rubano #flava flav #eddie reyes #youre so last summer #mark o'connell #fred mascherino #2003 #source: wayback machining the untitledrockblog

[smeagles]

End of You Can’t Look Back + Adam talking + beginning of Cute Without the E • opening for MCR • Oakland 10/5/22

#adam lazzara #john nolan #shaun cooper #mark o'connell #taking back sunday #tbs #you can't look back #cute without the e #mcroakland #my show #video #vids #my video #my post #flashing / #flashing video / #epilepsy warning #eye strain /

[redshift-13]

Reviewed The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us, by Adam Kirsch, Columbia Global Reports, 100 pp., $16.00 (paper)

I very much think the NYRB picked the wrong person for this review.  The best reviews in the journal have writers with subject matter expertise who can both contextualize a given book within a larger discourse and who also know enough to spot mistakes or arguments that don’t cash out.

For example, O’Connell writes,

Just as they tend to be secular humanists, transhumanists tend to be libertarians and, if not always outright cheerleaders for capitalism, then certainly on the whole uncritical of it.

Also,

"Despite his justified reputation as a critic of range and depth, Kirsch’s treatment of transhumanism is really more of a journalistic survey than an essayistic engagement. He pays little or no attention to the fact that the movement is a metastasized outgrowth of capitalist individualism, concerned as it is with the perfection of the self and the extension of its reign into perpetuity. It’s an odd omission, because there’s a case to be made that capitalism—embedded though it is, like transhumanism, in liberal humanist principles—has itself become a profoundly antihuman phenomenon."

I don’t know whether it’s true statistically that transhumanism is libertarian dominant.  However, it would have helped for him to note that the World Transhumanist Association, subsequently and still Humanity+, was at one point run by a democratic socialist if I’m not mistaken, James Hughes.  Acrimony between libertarians and lefties has marked transhumanism possibly from its start.

Noteworthy is an informal poll of members of the transhumanist subreddit, which found an overwhelming preponderance of lefties of one stripe or another. 

It’s a case of underdetermination and guilt by association to claim that transhumanism is a metatstatic outgrowth of capitalism individualism.  Clearly you can find linkages with Silicon Valley and tech gurus like Ray Kurzweil, but, as already mentioned, democratic transhumanism is alive and well.  Also, it’s too glib to explain individualism, in the sense of a self-actualizing and self-differentiating tendency, with capitalism.  If you do this with transhumanism, you then must with various health trends, for example, or with new religious movements or virtually any lifestyle.  If you’re looking for social explanations for transhumanism modernity seems more apt.  But this is still too blunt to account for the specificities of transhumanism.  Nor does it seem very convincing to attribute transhumanism to some kind of generic religious tendency - itself an explanatory cliché that thinks it’s saying something sociologically useful about why one might want to overcome one’s limitations of mind or body.  You don’t  you need make any reference to transcendent religious categories though to understand the transhumanist impulse, only note that decline, debility and death are objectionable to you.

And that leads me to an observation that forms the backdrop of the discussion about transhumanism.  It seems to me that transhumanism (which it should be pointed out is not a univocal belief system) will be more likely to be seen as anti-human and extreme depending on how you’ve conceptualized the totality of the determining contingencies of our lives.  

In other words, if you never appreciated the following as a whole and recoiled from it - disease, illness, disability, death, ignorance, the limitations of short term memory/memory altogether, the limitations of the body, received prejudice and instinct operating everywhere, the inertia of institutions and society, the forced circumstances of history and previous technological choices - the sum of our limitations, it’s possible you’ve never felt a dialectical and moral pull in the opposite direction in all possible ways.  If you don’t have the sense that we’re much closer to hapless object and historical victim than we are possessed of radical agency and capacities for self-transcendence, then transhumanism will somewhat understandably be seen as anti-human.  But, what if we’ve never been able to be fully human?

Anyway, I have more to say but I feel like reading a book.

#transhumanism #cosmic pessemism #techno-optimism #longevity #extropy #nyrb #book reviews #adam kirsch #mark o'connell