TikTok and Taboo: Mysticism in the Information Age

“Animism has endowed things with souls; industrialism turns souls into things.”  — Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment Continue reading →

Reflections on the Death of Music Journalism

News of the mass of layoffs by Condé Nast, as well as discourse on the decline of music journalism and Continue reading →

Gaming: A Techno-Cultural Archaeology

Part I: A Prototype Demonstration I would not be the first, nor the last person to take Michel Foucault’s writings Continue reading →

Unbuilding Walls, 2: Foundation and Footing

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road Continue reading →

The Phenomenology of Language in David Abram’s ‘The Spell of the Sensuous’

I really do consider this a truly paradigm-shifting book even though I didn’t buy into all of the assumptions written Continue reading →

Man, the Animal Without Essence, 2: Fire and the Cave

Why do humans produce art? What is it that has led us as a species to feel the need to 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 →