Reality is where all our declared plans go to change outfits. To declare a plan is to dress it in a particular costume, armed with…
Inverted Monsters and the Machinery of Behavior: Nietzsche’s Abyss, Turned Inside Out
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an…
The Birth of Little Me, in a Pause
The “little me” lives solely as the observer in suspension, realizing itself in a delicate momentary stillness. When action arises too quickly, it speaks only…
Axioms of the Gap: The Gap as Unit and Frame
The mind’s implicit physics lives in the structure of the gap. In perception, gaps mark the places where thoughts and sequences leave the terrain of…
A Kind of Post-Cognitive Voodoo: On The Doll of Self
We never get to the other side of cognition. At best we deduce a pre-cognitive view by way of post-cognitive representations. Human “realism” is a…
Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition: The Mechanics of Becoming
In Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze presents a radical departure from traditional Western philosophy by tackling two central, overlooked forces in philosophy—difference and repetition. Traditionally,…
Beyond the Ape: The Ubermensch’s Predicament in Denial
“There is more ape in man to deny the relation than there is more than ape with which to accept it.”— Matt Berry In Nietzsche’s…
Zhuangzi: The Fish, the Trap, and the Paradox of Pursuit
The Fish, the Trap, and the Paradox of Pursuit Zhuangzi’s metaphor of the fish trap, capturing the transient means by which purpose or insight is…
Simone Weil: The Misdirection of the Imaginary in the Real
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” — Simone…
Its flashes are flashes of fire
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the…