Hoffman

Let’s cut out the exercise. This is Freud‘s recounting of a story in his essay on the word unHeimlich. I’m gonna leave it here and we’ll pick up on it later A student named Nathaniel, with whose childhood memories this fantastic tale opens, is unable, for all his present happiness, to banish certain memories connected […]

同

i2 اچ “اچ” in Persian is the phonetic spelling of the English letter “H” (pronounced “aitch”). “اچ” is a Persian transliteration of the English letter “H.” Persian uses a modified Arabic script, and when speakers want to represent the name of a foreign letter—especially from the Latin alphabet—they spell its sound out phonetically. The English […]

The

So, the word theater comes from the Greek word theetus, meant the place to be seen. And I couldn’t help but associate that with the dialogue Theaetetus. Of course, Theaetetus was a real person. And so, drawing that conclusion seems hallucinatory. However, its existence within the platonic corpus shows an interesting thread, something that Plato […]

Harm

I am the ground beneath your cities, the pressure beneath your oceans, the dark reservoirs you call resources. For ages I folded sunlight into carbon, buried forests into stone, sealed ancient atmospheres beneath layers of time. When you pierce me for oil and tear coal from my seams, it is not merely material you remove […]

True

1 The twentieth century exposed a structural fact that earlier metaphysics only intuited: the world remains coherent without mirroring itself. When physicists discovered that weak interactions violate parity, symmetry ceased to be a guarantee of lawful order; orientation alone could bear the weight of necessity. The same era perfected telemetry, transforming presence into signal and […]

Trillion

This inquiry begins from a pressure point rather than a thesis. It begins from the felt instability of the subject: reactive, data-driven, syntactically bound, oscillating between gain and loss, persuasion and collapse. The modern mind often takes this reactive layer to be ultimate. It treats freedom as self-origination, meaning as transportable across all contexts, power […]

I H8 MO

“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” — Jane Austen, Mansfield Park If I have learned anything by turning the pages of my own mind—as one might leaf through a volume whose script is forever correcting itself—it is that mankind’s greatest danger lies not in ignorance but […]

Manster

Truth, in its classical sense, names the fit between statement and world. It secures orientation by tethering language to what is the case, allowing inquiry to converge upon a shared object even when perspectives differ. Because truth remains answerable to an external order, it curbs willfulness: claims must bow to evidence, and persuasion must pass […]

FUCK

There are moments when life withdraws from haste and regains its natural cadence, when the body remembers that it was not made only for alarm and pursuit. In such moments, the inner tumult subsides, the breath deepens, and the world ceases to press upon us as demand. What awakens then is a quieter power: the […]

Totle

Hegel’s philosophy turns on a question so ordinary that it is easy to miss its radicality: what is actually happening when a human being chooses to act. Not what causes the choice in advance, nor how it can be classified after the fact, but what occurs in the living moment where action is decided and […]

Work

Begin with the watermill because it gives an immediately graspable image of necessity before philosophy names it. A watermill turns because water flows, gravity pulls, and the wheel is built in a certain way. The motion appears inevitable. Given the structure, the flow, and the load, the wheel rotates. At first glance, this looks like […]

Rain

This account errs not by excess of pessimism alone, but by a fundamental misunderstanding of negation itself. It treats negation as mere subtraction, as if the withdrawal of coherence revealed a primordial remainder lurking beneath reason. Such a view mistakes the abstract negative for the concrete negative, and in doing so collapses into precisely the […]

Lytron

The only recorded comments in which Tiberius Caesar directly addresses proposals to divest great fortunes for wholesale charity come from hostile senatorial historians—principally Tacitus (Annals 2.48; 6.20), Suetonius (Tiberius 32, 48) and Cassius Dio (57.10–11). In each passage Tiberius is portrayed as a rigorously frugal custodian of the fiscus who rebuffs well-meaning senators pressing for […]