Shane Devine

Fort Lauderdale, New Jersey

Writer at Valuetainment

Serializing a novel about the 2010s on Substack

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Chapter 13: All That Road Going (Part Two)

2 weeks ago | shanedevine.substack.com | Shane Devine

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on lifeWere all too little, and of one to meLittle remains: but every hour is savedFrom that eternal silence, something more,A bringer of new things; and vile it wereFor some three suns to store and hoard myself,And this gray spirit yearning in desireTo follow knowledge like a sinking star,Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
The Day After the Rabblement

1 month ago | shanedevine.substack.com | Shane Devine

When in the course of human events, it becomes evident that men can no longer be considered equal; that, because of the dissolving of a mysterious quality of grace, a species of one-time gentlemen trifurcates into a tier of tyrants, a tier of those clinging to what’s left of the middle class, and a lowly band of rabble, we find ourselves asking, out of a need to stop these people from bothering us, where they all came from. Who are the rabble? Are the rabble simply the poor?
Chapter 12: Bayou Interlude

1 month ago | shanedevine.substack.com | Shane Devine

Ricocheting out of New Orleans came a car five strong, speeding under weeping willows drooping out from marshes and chrome-colored rivers. Seated in the middle of the back, Maurice untangled clumps of tobacco and rolled them into fine tips like an old Plains Indian. Laurianne became documentarian and narrated the history of the destination, Lafayette, an old encampment teetering on the banks of a bayou deep in the jungle, west of the Mississippi River.
Why AI Cannot Replace Artists

1 month ago | shanedevine.substack.com | Shane Devine

“i think this is gonna be more like the renaissance than the industrial revolution,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said about its flagship product, ChatGPT. Over the last few years this AI software has spread virus-like across the globe, swallowing up inane tasks like writing student essays and helping corporate workers with operations and strategy. But its long-term promise is that it will refashion the arts from the ground up.
Chapter 11: All That Road Going (Part One)

2 months ago | shanedevine.substack.com | Shane Devine

If Summer is understood to be the spirit of celebrated excess, if we permit ourselves to thematize it as the triumph of life, brash and verdant, over the contemplating autumn, the immobile winter, and the still-thawing spring, this summer of which I speak is thesource, the summer in which all others participate when they approximate it here and there and in certain parts.
Mysticism, or the Ego Death of Eros

2 months ago | shanedevine.substack.com | Shane Devine

Empty yourself out. Empty it of everything: all passions and all notions. Now rid yourself of your faculty of reasoning, along with its illusory pretense that it can understand truth. Put a cloud of forgetting between yourself and all creatures and aim your focus up to a cloud of unknowing. Pierce it with your love, not with your mind. Love only God. Now empty yourself of God, for that too is too much. It is your vanity reflected. Empty yourself out even of that Nothing that is left.
Nachlass I

2 months ago | shanedevine.substack.com | Shane Devine

This is the first in a series of posts for paid subscribers in which I share my research on what is called “the Philosophy of Art.” These notes are the result of painstaking reading and interpretation, and contain quotes from obscure sources that are invaluable for anyone who wants to understand the crisis of nihilism, Hegel’s “End of Art” thesis, and the possible future of art. From the Nachlass, 3/25/25-4/2/25.
Our Return to Good and Evil

Mar 20, 2025 | shanedevine.substack.com | Shane Devine

Something was unearthed during the pandemic. Our corruption, the result of a process of disorientation that was sown some five hundred years ago, ended sharply in a quake of fear when we sensed its emergence. In some sense the Event didn’t take place. But the one that could have happened, the pandemic of our premonitions, was enough for us. The ease with which we succumbed to it was even more alarming.
Chapter 10: Pentecost

Mar 6, 2025 | shanedevine.substack.com | Shane Devine

When the Word of the north traveled down to my earthAnd woke the sleepers whom I call’d my neighborsBack home things were normal. School was coming to an end. I drank beer in the warm evenings with Duane and Red, Bambrick and Trevor. I took my finals. I went with my grade to Seaside Heights for Prom weekend, a New Jerseyan rite of passage. Some psychedelics were taken in these weeks, but no seminal experiences were had. There was too much anticipation on my mind, and the settings were not ideal.
Chapter 9: Rolling Face in the Plains of Abraham

Feb 27, 2025 | shanedevine.substack.com | Shane Devine

So I got there. Natacha and Alexandre walked up as I exited the concourse. Alexandre was wearing a black redingote drinking from a can of Pabst; Natacha was wearing a nice dress tightened with a belt, laughing into the phone. The first thing I say in my awkwardness after what’s ups and handshakes is “Natacha, you are taller than I expected”—she took it lightly and laughed. We begin to walk through the streets.

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Shane @shane_devine_

16 Jun 25

A 2014 Dublin trip. Some Ulysses drafts in the first photo. #bloomsday https://t.co/raVTSygynB

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Bloomsday stirs up sweet Dublin memories 🌊 https://t.co/UBX8IA8BuA

Shane @shane_devine_

15 Jun 25

RT @JeremyMonjo: I do respect the Nothing Ever Happens guys. We've had a mass-neuroticizing pandemic, multiple hot wars, the US Capitol was…

Shane @shane_devine_

13 Jun 25

It’s wrong to even think of Israel in realist terms as one nation among others. It is more like a rogue intel agency or colony. “Start up nation” propaganda ironically gets it better than soft rejection by nationalist right. It’s utterly dependent on hard lobbying US-UK capital