What do attention, affordance, salience, and valence have to do with meaning, and what is the architecture of encounter?
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What do attention, affordance, salience, and valence have to do with meaning, and what is the architecture of encounter?
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Parfit's Teletransporter Paradox? What happens to your 'self' if you are teleported to Mars?
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#philosophics #psychology #self #identity #heuristic #paradox #video #blog #podcast #meow #ontology #encounter #parfit #language
Parfit's Teletransporter Paradox? What happens to your 'self' if you are teleported to Mars?
philosophics.blog/2026/03/13/parfits-telet...
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A digital trading card titled “Achievement Token — Condition.” The image shows a human figure shaped like an hourglass, sand flowing through its body as if time and self are draining away. The design echoes the colours of oxidised red and muted graphite, symbolising burnout and the illusion of productivity within modern capitalist culture.
What if achievement itself is the most efficient form of self-exploitation?
The Burnout Society launches Readings in Late Exhaustion—a Philosophics series on the psychic economy of late capitalism.
“We exploit ourselves and think we are free.”
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A monochrome blue-toned illustration inspired by Escher’s “Relativity,” showing endless staircases twisting in impossible directions. A solitary figure stands in the maze, symbolising the transcendental subject trapped in its own rational construction. The artwork appears as a parody Magic: The Gathering card titled “Pure Reason,” subtitled “Sorcery — Critique.” The card text reads: “Suspend Disbelief (3). For the next 3 turns, arguments cannot be resolved by evidence, only by deduction.” Below, a quotation attributed to Immanuel Kant reads, “Reason alone constructs universes. Whether they can be lived in is another matter.” The image evokes the beauty and sterility of Enlightenment rationalism and its self-contained labyrinth of thought.
New post on Philosophics.blog — Pure Reason: The Architecture of Illusion
Kant’s dream: a universe made of logic, untouched by experience.
For three turns, evidence is suspended; only deduction remains.
The Enlightenment’s most beautiful labyrinth […]
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Why do sex workers report higher job satisfaction than 'respectable' employees? Fromm had an answer 70 years ago. The disease wasn’t neurosis — it was capitalism. We’ve automated everything except fulfilment.
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A stylised cubist portrait of a shouting face rendered in angular blue and ochre fragments, as if carved from paper and stone. Geometric shards scatter from the open mouth, symbolising speech breaking into abstraction. The artwork evokes the tension between expression and meaning central to Wittgenstein’s philosophy. The card, titled “Language Game,” mimics a Magic: The Gathering design and bears the text: “Choose one: Counter target statement; or reframe it as metaphor.” Below, a quote reads, “Don’t ask for the meaning, ask for the use.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein. The composition visualises how language constructs, deconstructs, and reshapes thought through use and context.
New card in the Critical Theory parody set: Language Game
Wittgenstein’s warning still stands: meaning isn’t a thing, it’s a use.
We live in the friction between saying and doing, countering and reframing.
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A stylised cubist portrait composed of overlapping geometric fragments in muted blues and beiges. Multiple faces and eyes intersect, suggesting fractured perception and the multiplicity of viewpoints. The design evokes the theme of perspectival realism—how reality appears differently from each vantage—framed as a parody Magic: The Gathering card titled “Perspectival Realism.” The text beneath the artwork describes an enchantment that ends when two players describe a card the same way, symbolising the collapse of perspective into consensus.
New post on Philosophics.blog: Perspectival Realism – The Enchantment of the In-Between
Reality exists only so long as no one agrees on what it is.
Consensus kills the spell.
A reflection on realism, idealism, and why “truth” depends on where you’re standing […]
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A blue Magic: The Gathering-style parody card titled Constructivist Lens. The artwork depicts a geometric, machine-like face composed of blue and copper parts, a fusion of cubism and mechanical drafting. The card is labelled as an Artifact with the ability: “Tap: Replace any keyword on a permanent with a metaphor of your choice until the end of the turn.” The flavour text quotes Richard Rorty: “Knowledge is not a copy of reality but a tool for coping with it.” The overall effect satirises philosophy, language, and game mechanics, blending the absurd seriousness of both.
Artifact drop: Constructivist Lens.
Tap to rewrite your ontology as metaphor. Because “truth” was always a house rule.
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#Philosophy #Constructivism #MTG #Satire #CriticalTheory #parody […]
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I've assembled a dedicated page to house the Anti-Enlightenment project essays. Check it out.
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#blog #enlightenment #antienlightenment #philosophy #philosophics #psychology #critique #criticaltheory #ideas
The Anti-Enlightenment Project keeps growing — and showing its gaps. New post mapping what’s written and what’s missing.
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Sometimes the absences are the argument.
#Philosophy #AntiEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Philosophics
What if agency itself is not a universal essence at all, but a Modernist myth that props up blame, merit, and power? And what if nihilism doesn’t demand despair?
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#Philosophy #Postmodernism #CriticalTheory #Nihilism #OctaviaButler #Sartre #Philosophics #Essay #Blog
Octavia Butler’s Dawn opens with an alien saying, ‘You committed mass suicide.’ Maybe ‘agency’ is just a story we tell to prop up power. Read my new essay → philosophics.blog/2025/09/07/o...
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