Man the Animal Without Essence, 4: The Edge of Time
In the first part of Man, The Animal Without Essence I focused on the myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus, in Continue reading
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Storie Naturali: The Weird and Wonderful World of Luigi Serafini
Recently I received a book in the post. The words were written by an author I’d never heard of and it Continue reading
Gilbert Simondon: Two Lessons on Animal and Man
Simondon Gilbert Simondon (1924 – 1989) was arguably one of the most original and innovative thinkers in contemporary French philosophy. Continue reading
In What Sense Can We Understand the Mind As Existing Beyond the Brain?
In what sense can we understand the mind as existing beyond the brain? Throughout history, since the days of the Continue reading
Calvino and the Codex Seraphinianus: A Psychedelic Mystery
On a cloudy Friday afternoon, sometime at the end of March, we were sat huddled on the floor of a Continue reading
Man, the Animal Without Essence, 3: Brains, Hands and Tools
Artifice and art itself – these are the two meanings of the Greek word technē. Technē is, according to French Continue reading
Borges and the Book of Infinity
If the Library of Babel is a library that is all libraries, then what if there was a book that is all books? What if, in the pages of a book, one could find infinity itself?
Stiegler and Derrida: The Technical History of Memory
Stiegler defines what he calls ‘grammatisation’ as the ‘technical history of memory, in which hypomnesic memory continually reintroduces the constitution Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 