Philosophy Negative Capability and Nihilism as Nietzsche’s Artistic Leitmotif For Nietzsche, far from being the obvious state of existence, nihilism perhaps became an act of faith.
Philosophy Kant’s Project in the Critique of Pure Reason and its Implications for Scientific Theories Our minds are filled with concepts like space and time because they conferred a survival value to our ancestors.
Literature Art against the Cynics Reflections on Shaun Berke’s Winter and Summer: a memory of nature and culture
Politics Gettin’ Medieval on EUr Ass Reflections on Jan Zielonka’s Europe as Empire (2006). Part I of a Triptych.
Philosophy Extremely Offline Reflections on E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops & Pathological Blogging
Philosophy Novacene for the Soul A review of James Lovelock’s Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
Philosophy Metaphysical Logic and The Interpretation of Dreams In his On Dreams (1901), Freud puts forward the theory that we do not sleep in order to dream but that we dream in order to sleep.
Total Work Featured Micro-Liberations “There is an artist imprisoned in each of us. Set him free to spread joy everywhere.” — Bertrand Russell
