Trauma’s slogan: Apocalypse now. What is it, and how does it affect us? How does trauma lead to trouble?
All in Philosophy
Unlocked Potential: Death, Capitalism, and Transformation
A brief analysis of “Unlocked” (2023): a film about death, consumption, transformation, and horror in our present-day technological landscape.
Setting the Wheel of Time in Motion
‘Here we are,’ said the fool. He paused and looked as if to be admiring something.
Making Luck (Or “What” Is Left to Do)
What role might fortune and fate play in our lives? In this essay, I use Deleuze, Nietzsche, and others to facilitate an experiment in “making luck,” whatever that might mean. Maybe it will be useful later.
Eternal Ruminations
having
a soul is hard,
hard work.
Meditations on the Moon
A short meditation on the moon. The Sufi saint Rumi says, “There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.” Let yourself settle like water and glimpse the reflection of her next to your Self. See the constant presence hidden within others.
The Perception of Saints: The Compatibility of Free Will in Science and Religion
Science and religion may be in fact “too diffuse as cultural phenomena to be said to have a nature.” Despite this, might certain perspectives of science and religion be compatible in understanding traditional spiritual doctrines like those of free will and the soul? To answer this, we will explore the compatibility between the mystical and phenomenological experience of the religious realm with the findings of contemporary science.
Meditations on Creativity, Artists, and Spirit
What is involved in the creative act, and how is the artist to prevail in the face of the great paradox that wrests the creator from creation? One solution for achieving the “spirit of the artist,” one who defies and prevails with passion and “divine grace,” is fostering the courage to cross beyond the limits of doubt and deconstruction, flowing with the creative encounter and affording the potential of our becoming to create “like God.”
Taking Flight (Collected Thoughts VII)
To become nomadic is to take flight. To seek creation, recreation, reterritorialization, reconstruction.
Machines, Politics, and Problems (Collected Thoughts VI)
The text is all that exists on the page, but the page is not the limit of being for the text. It is in this sense that the word was He.
Think Differently (Collected Thoughts V)
“A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.” (Jacques Monod)
Affirming Thought (Collected Thoughts IV)
“An answer is always a form of death.”
A Step Toward a Strange World (Collected Thoughts III)
It takes courage to create differently, radically different, in ways unthinkable to some and unknowable to others, but necessary to one.
Living from a Virtual World (Collected Thoughts II)
Ah, another collection of thoughts. Philosophy might be bio-historical. Think differently, experiment with things, enjoy.
Impressions or Confessions (Collected Thoughts I)
For any lost soul who has found their way to this corner of the web (what a curious image), enjoy—and never be afraid to become who you are.
An Assemblage of Thought and Sense: What is IT?
At the core of this life, or the process by which we know it—living—is the problem of conscious experience. Our experience is the life we live, the living we do everyday, and every single feeling, thought, or behavior is encompassed by consciousness. The question is this: What is IT?
A Deconstruction of Humankind's "Abstract Nakedness"
Hannah Arendt asserts in her book The Origins of Totalitarianism that “the world found nothing sacred in the abstract nakedness of being human.” What does she mean by this and, more importantly, how does this inform humankind’s place in the world?
On the Function of Painful Memories
What is the use of a painful memory? A soliloquy: written in distress at 3:41 AM.
Hannah Arendt, Anti-Semitism, and Totalitarianism: What Is Eternal Hostility?
A short essay exploring Arendt’s concept of ‘eternal hostility’ and its connections to totalitarianism. What does she mean by this and how does this inform us of the dangers that follow?
Going Beyond Sartre's Encounter with the Other
Sartre’s encounter with the Other provides us with a greater understanding of ourselves and ultimately reveals the illusory and evasive nature of our inner life.