On Third World feminism absorbed by institutions, Dido of Carthage written out of her own story, and the Buddha who waits at the back of the room while history argues over foundations.
The Buddha at the Back of the Room
Category: Philosophy & Ideas
Philosophical explorations, big ideas, and essays on consciousness, meaning, knowledge, and the human condition.
Monuments to Ourselves
A philosophical essay on how Abbey Road and the Notting Hill blue door became monuments—and what it reveals about our culture of symbolic acquisition over authentic experience.
Purity Is an Aesthetic of Death [From the Glitch Series]
Why do glitches reveal deeper truths? An essay on imperfection, complexity, and the philosophical implications of error in nature, technology, and human experience.
Executable Error: Why We Are a Glitch That Will Not Go Galactic
Is Earth a cosmic glitch? An essay exploring why our planet's extraordinary complexity and biodiversity makes it a profound anomaly in an otherwise simple universe — and what this means for the future of intelligence.
One Billion Day Funeral for Birthdays
A meditation on the strange ritual of birthday celebrations and what our obsession with marking time reveals about mortality, meaning, and the human experience.
One Billion Day Funeral for the Toaster
“At every occasion, I’ll be ready for a funeral” https://vimeo.com/12315305?share=copy The violence and unprecedented lawlessness of events generating world media headlines in the first week of this year have delayed this long-overdue eulogy. They also sharpened the risk that any further delay is likely to result in its never being written at all as the… Continue reading One Billion Day Funeral for the Toaster
What Occam’s Razor Can’t Cut
Occam’s Razor is one of those ideas that slipped out of philosophy and wandered into popular culture, shedding its actual meaning along the way. Ironically, the very process that made it famous - simplifying it for wider distribution - also hollowed it out. It’s journey towards accessibility stripped away nuance leaving something simple, catchy, and… Continue reading What Occam’s Razor Can’t Cut
Household Thermodynamics: The 2nd Law
You’ve just stumbled out of bed, slowly emerging from the dark syrup of sleep, your mind a fogged window. In the hall or kitchen stands someone who’s been awake for hours, upright, caffeinated, and burning conversational octane at a high rpm. They greet you with that buoyant, easy cheer that can only radiate from a… Continue reading Household Thermodynamics: The 2nd Law
The Unnatural Animal
Nature: The phenomena of the physical world collectively; especially plants, animals and other features and products of the Earth itself, as opposed to humans and human creations. Oxford English Dictionary 1. At a gathering of the Eden Project in Cornwall a year ago, the foregoing definition of Nature left attendees shocked over our collective exclusion.… Continue reading The Unnatural Animal
From Polo Sticks to Spades: How Cards Conquered the World
I’ve never been a card player. Yet I’ve always been drawn to the aesthetics of card play. From the crisp snap of a freshly shuffled deck, the intricate symmetry of suits and ranks, the quiet choreography of hands and cards, to the charged silences around the table cracked by curt instructions or blown open by… Continue reading From Polo Sticks to Spades: How Cards Conquered the World
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