Trauma’s slogan: Apocalypse now. What is it, and how does it affect us? How does trauma lead to trouble?
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Trauma’s slogan: Apocalypse now. What is it, and how does it affect us? How does trauma lead to trouble?
A brief analysis of “Unlocked” (2023): a film about death, consumption, transformation, and horror in our present-day technological landscape.
‘Here we are,’ said the fool. He paused and looked as if to be admiring something.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
To become nomadic is to take flight. To seek creation, recreation, reterritorialization, reconstruction.
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.
“A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.” (Jacques Monod)
It takes courage to create differently, radically different, in ways unthinkable to some and unknowable to others, but necessary to one.
Ah, another collection of thoughts. Philosophy might be bio-historical. Think differently, experiment with things, enjoy.
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.
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?
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?
What is the use of a painful memory? A soliloquy: written in distress at 3:41 AM.
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?
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.