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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Mediating Suppression: At the Crossroads of Judaism, Marxism, Freudianism
The Systems of Judaism, Marxism, and Freudianism Structurally speaking, Judaism, Marxism, and Freudianism each constitute a thought system, and their Continue reading
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
Gilles Deleuze, A Stoic
When one thinks of Gilles Deleuze, Stoicism might not be the first thing that comes to mind. The French philosopher 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
Art, Temporality and “Motions of the Mind”
Grossman and the Greeks “’Everything flows, everything changes,’ said the Greek. But this is not evident from the little mounds 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
Blue Labyrinths 