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Every time philosophy declares the death of metaphysics, it builds another shrine under a different name.
My new essay, The Great Substitution, maps that pattern — from theology to dataism — and argues for a discipline of maintenance rather than mastery.
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Discourse didn’t die from censorship.
It died from convenience — from reacting faster than we can think.
A new essay on capitalism, comment sections, and the death of thought.
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3 books at 2:48 a.m.
My proof copy was perfect. The system disagreed.
Every age has its priests; ours wear badges that read Process Engineer.
👉 Philosophics.blog: The Prison of Process
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3 books at 2:48 a.m.
The machine flagged my book for a 'possible' spine error. It wasn’t wrong; it was procedurally right.
New post: The Prison of Process — how Enlightenment Reason became 21st-century workflow […]
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“I choose to obey, therefore I am free.”
The latest in the Anti-Enlightenment Project explores how obedience becomes virtue and submission masquerades as freedom.
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I've assembled a dedicated page to house the Anti-Enlightenment project essays. Check it out.
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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.
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The “Illusion of Light” isn’t about illumination, it’s about what blinding “light” erases. My essay teases that half-light reveals what certainty conceals.
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A funny thing happened on the way to the printer.
Meditations on Nothing: A Critical Companion escaped first. The main volume, Notes Before Existence, is still in production.
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The Enlightenment built its world on a fiction: the autonomous self. Against Agency dismantles that myth.
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The biggest disappointment is that the world is going to hell at the hands of such mediocre people. We are entering the #AntiEnlightenment. It started with the war on elites.
Musk, Thiel, Koch, et al are the evil in the darkness. #DarkEnlightenment is #AntiEnlightenment english.elpais.com/usa/2024-11-...
Clinton on harsh reality of #antienlightenment 2017 America: "There is a full-fledged assault on truth and reason." www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/26/hill...