Microliberations

Military Tech and Strategy

Drone-Ethics part 6

My Whole Body’s a Weapon: Milgram, Moral Buffering and the Phenomenology of Killing

Military Tech and Strategy

Drone-Ethics part 5

Where Hegel Feared to Tread: Dialectics, Drones and the Sacrificial State

Military Tech and Strategy

Drone-Ethics part 4

Thanatotactics: Jus in Bello, Clausewitz and the Death Pact

Military Tech and Strategy

Drone-Ethics part 3

Virtueless War and the Suicide Bomber

Military Tech and Strategy

Drone-Ethics part 2

Orthodox Price Theory and the Death of Protest

Military Tech and Strategy

Drone-Ethics part 1

Necro-Ethics and the Categorical Imperative

Philosophy

Negative Capability and Nihilism as Nietzsche’s Artistic Leitmotif

For Nietzsche, far from being the obvious state of existence, nihilism perhaps became an act of faith.

Philosophy

Pointing Towards Christ

Prefigurations of Christian Teleology in the Early Greek Thinkers

Philosophy

Kant’s Project in the Critique of Pure Reason and its Implications for Scientific Theories

Our minds are filled with concepts like space and time because they conferred a survival value to our ancestors.

Philosophy

Zarathustra’s Ape

How He Became What He Was

Politics

Flag, Forces, Family

Labour’s Latest Ideological Iteration

Literature

Art against the Cynics

Reflections on Shaun Berke’s Winter and Summer: a memory of nature and culture

Philosophy

Lewis Mumford & Tales from The Loop

Megatechnics and Planned Obsolescence

Politics

The Smart Social Contract

Neo-Feudal Techno-Communism. Part II of a Triptych.

Politics

Gettin’ Medieval on EUr Ass

Reflections on Jan Zielonka’s Europe as Empire (2006). Part I of a Triptych.

Literature

International Journal of Solarist Studies

Loneliness, A Phenomenological Reflection

Total Work

Between Total Work and Uppgivenhetssyndrom

Idleness with Dignity

Philosophy

Extremely Offline

Reflections on E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops & Pathological Blogging

Philosophy

The Joi of Xex

Xenoproduction in Blade Runner 2049

Philosophy

Novacene for the Soul

A review of James Lovelock’s Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Philosophy

Wittgenstein and Addiction

Sense Perception and Moral Perception

Philosophy

Metaphysical Logic and The Interpretation of Dreams

In his On Dreams (1901), Freud puts forward the theory that we do not sleep in order to dream but that we dream in order to sleep.

Total Work Featured

Micro-Liberations

“There is an artist imprisoned in each of us. Set him free to spread joy everywhere.” — Bertrand Russell

Philosophy

Kant and the Art of BMW Maintenance

From German Idealism to German Engineering