Paranoia in Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly
paranoia /ˌparəˈnɔɪə/ noun a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically worked into an Continue reading
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Modafinil – Are Smart Drugs Really That Smart?
If you’ve been reading the national newspapers over the last couple of years you’d be forgiven for believing that students Continue reading
Citizenfour, Snowden, and the Problem of Privacy
In the USA, 1972, the Watergate scandal shook the foundations of the American political institution in what has been described Continue reading
Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
Another Borges book. Another 5 stars. I mean this man is so brilliant I’m starting to turn into a dithering Continue reading
Proletarianization in E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops
‘cannot you see […] that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really Continue reading
To what extent has Kierkegaard’s view of the self influenced Heidegger’s conception of Dasein?
‘A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 