Ev

. All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed. | The doctrine that in living things there […]

Chokey

Imagine, if you will, the front of the thigh unveiled beneath a surgeon’s lamp: four broad crimson ribbons lying side by side, glossy with life. Closest to the skin runs the vastus lateralis, that outer sweep which flares like a sail against the hip. Beside it, half-hidden, the vastus medialis forms a teardrop that cups […]

Exec

The crazy thing about Kant is that Categories (as such) dont work if they arent rigorously applied to pure reason. People think talking like a retard is some form of intelligence. What Derrida wants to do is to say that there’s a pure difference and that difference and deferral have a purity— in order to […]

3

BOG stands six foot nine three hubdred and fifty seven pounds. The battle at wounded knee. DONT NEED IT.

maurice

Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, critic, and philosopher of literature whose work circles around absence, death, language, solitude, and the strange impersonal force of writing. Born in 1907 and dying in 2003, he occupies an unusual place between literature and philosophy: not quite a novelist in the ordinary sense, not quite a systematic philosopher […]

Body

The Red-Haired Man There was a red-haired man who had no eyes or ears. Neither did he have any hair, so he was called red-haired theoretically. He couldn’t speak, since he didn’t have a mouth. Neither did he have a nose. He didn’t even have any arms or legs. He had no stomach and he […]

Seminar

Derrida introduces “lifedeath” (la vie-la mort) in his 1975-76 seminar of the same name, but the motif is already latent in Of Grammatology and Dissemination. The hyphenated neologism folds the two nouns into a single, unpronounceable unit so that neither can be said, or thought, without the other. In classical metaphysics life is posited as […]

Offman

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 […]