“Why Are You so Bad, Bro?”: Theory of the Avatar

Freedom is an online performance by Eva and Franco Mattes. Its setting is the infamous FPS video game Counter-Strike. Eva, as 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 →

Angst Machines Disassembling Amongst the Trees

I refuse to pretend that everything is OK. As if we just wait for the last drip of winter to Continue reading →

Merleau-Ponty on the Relationship Between Self and World

As much as the world can feel separate from our discrete selves, upon closer examination, we will see that our Continue reading →

Art, Technology and Truth in Martin Heidegger’s Thought

In mythology, autochthones (from Ancient Greek αὐτός “self,” and χθών “soil”; i.e. “people sprung from earth itself”) are those mortals Continue reading →

Unbuilding Walls, 3: Passageway and Gatekeeper

“If I don’t meet you no more in this worldThen I’ll meet you in the next oneAnd don’t be lateDon’t Continue reading →

Biological Essentialism, State Ideology, and the Need for a Phenomenological Paradigm Shift

In analyzing modern political discourse in the West, identity is increasingly a recurring theme in heated debates surrounding rights frameworks, 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 →