Articles tagged with “philosophy”
- Alexander Karp's Iron Cage: A Review of The Technological Republic
I wanted to love it, but Alexander Karp's new book is a mess of contradictions and a bloody revenge by the Frankfurt School against the school of American Optimism.
- Deregulation and the State Arms-Race Each Other Into Cyberspace
Reading Nick Land's Meltdown sentence by sentence.
- The Body Count Climbs Through a Series of Globewars
Reading Nick Land's Meltdown sentence by sentence.
- Markets Manufacture Intelligence, Politics Upgrades Paranoia, and Tries to Get a Grip
Reading Nick Land's Meltdown sentence by sentence.
- Manny Farber's Rhizome
An exploration of Manny Farber's aesthetic philosophy of 'Termite Art vs. White Elephant Art' and its connection to rhizomatic thinking.
- Walls as a Service
The removal of walls decreases the fraction of relevant space under your control.
- Logistically Accelerating Techno-Economic Interactivity
Reading Nick Land's Meltdown sentence by sentence.
- How Renaissance Rationalization and Oceanic Navigation Locked Into Commodotization Takeoff
On the first sentence of Nick Land's Meltdown.
- The Life of Spinoza as an Independent Scholar
How did a lens-grinder who published only two failed books during his lifetime become one of the most influential philosophers in history? The keys to Spinoza's success as an independent scholar.
- On Angelicism and Post-Academic Futures
Become imperceptible, not illegible.
- Angels and Communication
How the visible world hangs together.
- Wittgenstein's Religion
"The facts of the world are not the end of the matter." —Wittgenstein
- Urbit and the Telos of the Creator Economy
A long-running historical gradient suggests that individuals will enjoy full control over the creation, distribution, and monetization of their work, eventually evading all centralized platforms and arbitrary constraints.
- What to Do After the Orgy
Baudrillard famously asked, "What are you doing after the orgy?" Our answer: Take a leap of faith about the ultimate truth, then harness the chaos of modernity to bring that truth into being.
- Ask for the Truth: Marshall McLuhan's Catholicism
"Wham! I became Catholic the next day."
- Society Is a Corpse That Purges at the Mouth
On Mary Moody Emerson.
- The Montaigne Paradox
The greatest social power is achieved by withdrawing from society.
- Write to Yourself and Yourself Alone
Sibi scribere.
- Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio: Detailed Summary
Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.
- Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier: Detailed Summary
Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
- I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard: Detailed Summary
A detailed summary of René Girard's account of mimetic desire, scapegoating, violence, and Christianity.
- Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest by Nick Land: A Detailed Guide
The high-water mark of revolutionary Deleuzian Feminism.
- After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre: A Detailed Guide
A critique of modern moral discourse and a proposal to revive the Aristotelian tradition of virtue ethics.