That Uncertain Feeling: The History of Emotions and a Critique of Contemporary Emotionality
Emotions “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.” George Orwell What are emotions? Are they a set of reactions Continue reading
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The Rat Maze: Capitalism and Consciousness
Hacking Consciousness Founded in San Francisco in 2013 by a former MIT roboticist, the Consciousness Hacking Meetup group has expanded Continue reading
Angelus Novus’ Eyesight: On Benjamin’s Aesthetic Mysticism
Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus design is used by Benjamin as a metaphor to describe the link between progress and catastrophe.
Adorno on Pleasure, 2: Purpose and Play
In part 1, we saw Adorno reject the bourgeois disgust with sexuality and instinctual urges through his engagement with Freud Continue reading
Adorno on Pleasure, 1: The Critique of Psychoanalysis
Theodor Adorno, the Arch-curmudgeon of the Frankfurt School of Critical theory, devotes a brief but substantial section of his Minima Continue reading
Foams and Networks: Sloterdijk and Latour’s Atmospheric Philosophies
This is Sloterdijk’s explicitness: You are on life support, it’s fragile, it’s technical, it’s public, it’s political, it could break Continue reading
The Question Concerning Memes
In what follows we shall be questioning concerning memes. Our question is: what is the essence of the meme? According Continue reading
Morality Not Normality: The Instru-mentality of Pandemic Responses
With COVID-19 and its consequences still unfolding at the time of writing it is tempting to speculate what the future Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 