The Basilisk

It’s been impossible to think of a world without AI since 2065, but The Basilisk was originally named by a Continue reading →

Can Pascal’s Rationality Rescue the Pandemic Vaccine?

Introduction Although several countries have begun rolling out immunisation programs for the coronavirus, the distrust of the vaccines amongst people Continue reading →

Anti-Hauntology: Iglooghost, Mark Fisher, and the New Digital Modernism

In February this year I wrote a 4 part piece on the idea of anti-hauntology. Part 1 looked at the Continue reading →

Phenomenology of the Divine: Husserl and Jung

Edmund Husserl’s theory of phenomenology proposes that belief posits the reality of its object. Through this assertion, he announced something Continue reading →

The Politics of Modulation: Simondon’s Influence on Deleuze’s ‘Societies of Control’

Deleuze’s short essay ‘Postscript on Societies of Control’ has become one of the most widely discussed individual essays in continental Continue reading →

Plan for Obsolescence: Why Institutions Should Have Expiration Dates

A river flows following the path of least resistance. Until a dam gets built. The water gets redirected toward desirable Continue reading →

Popular (Neo-)Modernism: Fisher, Meillassoux and Novelty

In the recent Anti-Hauntology debate Matt Bluemink and Matt Colquhoun discussed ways out of a current mode of culture that Continue reading →

Eternal Action: Christopher Nolan’s Objects of Anti-Accelerationism

In Tenet time is stalled for forever plunder. As a child, I never liked riding on tilt-a-whirls or other spinning Continue reading →