Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein’s Ethical Machine

It is difficult to ascertain Kierkegaard’s influence on the early Wittgenstein. Aside from Wittgenstein having published only one book (with Continue reading →

Gender Bubble: A Few Points from Judith Butler Explained via a Sexually Ambiguous Clownfish

For clownfish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae, sexual development is determined by social hierarchy in an arrangement known as sequential hermaphroditism. 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 →

Trash Theory: The “Young-Girl” Deployment

Premiers Matériaux pour une Théorie de la Jeune-Fille I just found this weird little book. It’s been referenced here and 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 →

Homo Sacer: The State of Exception as a Dominant Social Paradigm

Just over a year following the release of the nine volumes of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, the Continue reading →

The Spectacle of the Scaffold – Foucault, Corporal Punishment, and the Digital Age

Witnesses who described the scene could even be prosecuted, thereby ensuring that the execution should cease to be a spectacle Continue reading →

On Certainty and Mad Max

“At the end of the world,” our eponymous hero growls in the prologue of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Continue reading →