Category: human

• Rocks in Your Head

  Jul 29

  Timothy Morton is an English scholar at Rice University. He is also a “speculative realist.” That’s fancy theoretical talk for “bullshit artist.” He would have you believe–and I chose this… more ›

• As This Openness

  Aug 24

  The great Czechoslovakian philosopher Jan Patočka writes in his First Essay of the Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, “Humans in their inmost being are nothing other than this ‘openness’… more ›

• Nonscents

  Jun 15

  The shampoo smells like Jolly Rancher watermelon although it has a picture of an avocado on the label. He’s not sure how he would feel about the smell of avocado… more ›

• Vox Animalis

  Jun 5

  The animal voice comes from beyond the body, resonates throughout the body. Its significance resides in the echo of the call, in the trace of the animal voice inscribed within… more ›

• Magna pretium cognoscere.

  Jun 1

  Pity the wood that finds itself a violin. Pity the thought that finds itself man.He thinks it must be due to faulty metaphysics from calculative reckoning gone awry that there… more ›

• Mindful of the Date

  Jan 20

  Seventy years ago today a small group of people meet for ninety minutes at a lovely villa in a Berlin suburb to articulate how they would systematically murder another “group”… more ›