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Expression is Cosmogenesis or, Most of What We Say is Not Expressive

Expression is Cosmogenesis or, Most of What We Say is Not Expressive

Usually when we speak, it’s a move within an established protocol, our words pre-determined by the social contracts of family, romance…
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The Art of Reading (and, as a footnote, the limits of AI)

The Art of Reading (and, as a footnote, the limits of AI)

Despite the insistence of our educational system, to read is not to decipher (nor is it to judge, though that’s for another essay). It is…
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Mind Your Circuits or, Towards a Physics of Ecological Being

Mind Your Circuits or, Towards a Physics of Ecological Being

Life, alas, is premised on exchange, on give and take: life is literally made of circuits, inside and out (if such a distinction can even…
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The Delectable Delight of Vertigo When You Realize There’s No There There (with Reference to…

The Delectable Delight of Vertigo When You Realize There’s No There There (with Reference to…

Everything is Cooked
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The Way of the Image

The Way of the Image

To state the obvious, an image is not the same thing as what’s in the image. I can’t find shade from a tree in a film; I can’t talk to the…
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Of Mourning Ritual

Of Mourning Ritual

Like many of my ilk, I’ve bucked tradition and its rituals. I’m a free spirited intellectual, after all! A philosopher, no less, who’s…
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Derrida, Bitcoin, & the Play of Value (or Cryptocurrency as the Deconstruction of Money)

Derrida, Bitcoin, & the Play of Value (or Cryptocurrency as the Deconstruction of Money)

The reigning economic system relies on the assumption of its own naturalness to deflect any possible critique. “This is just the way things…
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Towards an Ecology of Being

There are not first things and then interactions with other things. All…

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What Is Pleasure, Anyway?

Despite the fact that pleasure is an experience everyone has surely had, it…

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The Grammar of Liquid in the Films of John Cassavetes

To watch Cassavetes’ films is to learn a new…

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What It Is to Read Philosophy: Of Birdsongs & Inhabiting Different Worlds

Philosophers don’t all see…

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The Push & Pull of It All: Magnetism, Mercury, Charisma

Often, we imagine the world’s variety of…

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The Body Between Us: Surfing Music’s Emergent Body

How do musicians playing together know when, what…

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The Delirium of Empiricism

Hear the word empiricism and you probably conjure images of scientific rigor, of rationality. I don’t believe in…

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The Event of Cinematic Sense in the Films of PT Anderson (with Reference to “Clueless,” “Rushmore,” “Goodfellas,”…

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Ways of Looking at the Camera: “The Office,” “Fleabag,” & “Winning Time”

Everything proffers a…

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The Art of Affect in Film

On “Spencer,” “Inherent Vice,” the films of Sofia Coppola, John Cassavetes —…

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