Existentialism

In no particular order: 1) Presence of parameters that are essential for the existence of life and are not derivable from any known physical laws. (So-called fine tuning) 2) A grainy (pixelated) quality to reality when you zoom in close enough. (The transition from classical Newtonian to Quantum physics) 3)…

Unedited Preview This story was sitting on my face for quite a while now. It got to get it out. The title is a reference to a vague memory of my emotions during a 1990ies show of Samuel Beckett’s “Endspiel” on a stage in somewhere in Munich. You may find…

Introduction The following thesis works to engage within and realize the critical discourse between Samuel Beckett’s trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable, and the philosophical schema of the Danish existential thinker Søren Kierkegaard. By treating Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy as a medium for transmitting a philosophical ideology, this dissertation…

SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for the game Outer Wilds, including the ending. Outer Wilds is meant to be a learning experience. There are no spoilers for it’s DLC, Echoes of the Eye. Most people want to be a hero. When you’re very little, adults will commonly ask…

My greatest fear can be summed up in one word. Me. I am scared of this person that I am becoming. I am scared that I will wake up one morning and see a stranger in a mirror, a foreigner in my own body. I am scared that I may…

You are insignificant, the world has breathed for 4.5 billion years whilst you drew breath for a few decades and guess what? The world will continue to breath long after you are gone. The tree which just passed me has stood for more than half a century, and unsurprisingly will…

From The Fragments of The Universe Anthology I woke up to existence, An inaugural breath into a frantic subsistence. Ripped violently from the soothing nothingness of my infant dreams, I let loose my first cry into the silence. Confused, I clawed at what some would call a heart and wondered…