Category: nietzsche

• Lapis lazuli

  Aug 1

  Lapis lazuli is the stone for the 32nd anniversary. I only looked it up a couple of weeks ago. The stone is blue, and its name in Latin means “stone… more ›

• Bloomsday: My Conversion

  Jun 16

  Happy Bloomsday! It’s a greeting I thought I’d never say. But here we are: June 16. I’m wearing a fucking boater and heading to my first Bloomsday celebration. All because… more ›

• Parasites

  Nov 17

  The ‘creditor’ always becomes more humane as his wealth increases; finally, the amount of his wealth determines how much injury he can sustain without suffering from it. It is not impossible… more ›

• Plant-Thinking

  Mar 5

  Recently I read Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. I liked it well enough. It offers an erudite reading and counter-reading to “the plant” within the metaphysical tradition… more ›

• Taking Time

  Feb 19

  What is meant as a valiant stand against the decline of reading is actually a symptom of it, and then a cause. The fear of dumbing down leads to thinning… more ›

• Why Immoralism Is a Destiny

  Jan 3

  In his Ecce Homo Nietzsche defines his term immoralist (“Why I Am a Destiny” §4, trans Walter Kaufmann). In this one term lies two negations: the negation of the type of person who… more ›