Philosophy

A collection of 20 posts

Philosophy

Killing Time

"As something possible, death is supposed to show as little as possible of its possibility", writes Heidegger in Being and Time (p.251). Yet what happens if the moment of our death is fully revealed to us, such as through capital punishment?

Military Tech and Strategy

Drone Ethics Part 11: Acephalic World Spirit

As the V2 rockets fell on London in 1944 Theodor Adorno wrote, "I have seen the world-spirit," not on horse-back, but on wings and without a head". What this acephalic weltgeist harboured, Gregoire Chamayou argues in Drone Theory, was the total effacement of any identifiable subject that

Philosophy

Vile Bodies

'This study of the historical technologies of debasement calls for the creation of a political philosophy of scientific practice.'

Philosophy

Language and Death

In the beginning was the Word (John 1:1).

Military Tech and Strategy

Drone-Ethics part 1

Necro-Ethics and the Categorical Imperative

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

Pointing Towards Christ

Prefigurations of Christian Teleology in the Early Greek Thinkers

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.

Philosophy

Zarathustra’s Ape

How He Became What He Was

Literature

Art against the Cynics

Reflections on Shaun Berke’s Winter and Summer: a memory of nature and culture

Philosophy

Lewis Mumford & Tales from The Loop

Megatechnics and Planned Obsolescence

Politics

The Smart Social Contract

Neo-Feudal Techno-Communism. Part II of a Triptych.

Politics

Gettin’ Medieval on EUr Ass

Reflections on Jan Zielonka’s Europe as Empire (2006). Part I of a Triptych.

Literature

International Journal of Solarist Studies

Loneliness, A Phenomenological Reflection

Philosophy

Extremely Offline

Reflections on E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops & Pathological Blogging

Philosophy

The Joi of Xex

Xenoproduction in Blade Runner 2049

Philosophy

Novacene for the Soul

A review of James Lovelock’s Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Philosophy

Wittgenstein and Addiction

Sense Perception and Moral Perception

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.

Philosophy

Kant and the Art of BMW Maintenance

From German Idealism to German Engineering