Category: philosophy

• 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 ›

• Books Read in 2014

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• Tyranny of the Text

  Dec 29

  WritingThe irony is that in the year that I’ve written the most, I’ve blogged the least. You would think that writing is writing, and that one kind of writing would… 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 ›

• On the Prosthetic

  Jan 10

  After spending a few hours this past week trying on new frames and ordering new lenses for distance vision, now seems like a suitable time to think and write about… more ›

• Books Read in 2013

  Jan 3

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• An Excerpt from the Utterly Brilliant Book I’m Writing on Autographesis, the As If, and Blanchovian Phenomenology

  Aug 16

  For art to be truly free to achieve its goal of total freedom and to escape the normative exigencies that have shackled it throughout much of history (that is, for… more ›

• Books Read in 2012

  Dec 31

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• Listen

  Dec 12

  Voice precedes face, revealing the necessary disruption of alterity that subtends our subjectivity, our identity. We hear before we see. We know that we can always close our eyes, turn… more ›

• Presocratic Philosophy: Parmenides

  Nov 19

  In contrast to Heraclitus’s understanding that “all things flow,” Parmenides advocated a fixed and stable reality. In many regards, Parmenides can be understood as the exact opposite of Heraclitus: he… more ›