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 →

Can Ghosts Shape Our Selves?

Some of us are afraid of ghosts. Some are perhaps uncomfortable with the idea of encountering a ghost. Most of Continue reading →

Our Desert Islands: Deleuze, Sloterdijk, and the Pandemic

An older version of this article was originally published at 3:AM Magazine. You can find the original here. “Islands are Continue reading →

The Cherubim Collection

I went down to run the body, sank in the colored maps of arteries and veins. I ended on my 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 →

Man, the Animal Without Essence

In the second half of his most famous work, Technics and Time, 1, ‘Prometheus’s Liver’, Bernard Stiegler analyses the Greek myth Continue reading →