Accusations of writing being AI are becoming more common – an irony so rich it could fund Silicon Valley for another decade. We’ve built machines to detect machines imitating us, and then we congra…

Accusations of writing being AI are becoming more common – an irony so rich it could fund Silicon Valley for another decade. We’ve built machines to detect machines imitating us, and then we congratulate ourselves when they accuse us of being them. It’s biblical in its stupidity. A year ago, I read an earnest little piece on 'how to spot AI writing'.

(Now archived on Zenodo and PhilPapers) As many have been before me, I find metaphysical claims to be incredulous. I read these people tear down edifices, yet they seem to have a habit of replacing one for another – as if renaming it makes it disappear. Perhaps Lacan would be curious how this persists at this stage of our supposed development.

“The Enlightenment didn’t free us from superstition; it mechanised it.”We built reason into a machine, called it capitalism, and let it think for us. I recently commemorated an article on Excess De…

“The Enlightenment didn’t free us from superstition; it mechanised it.”We built reason into a machine, called it capitalism, and let it think for us. I recently commemorated an article on Excess Deaths Attributable to Capitalism. The backlash on LinkedIn was swift, loud, and – let’s say – uninformed. Video: Short clip on this topic. What followed was a case study in how not to communicate.

Humans stumble around with their self-awareness like toddlers with scissors—aware enough to cut themselves, not wise enough to put the scissors down.

Humans stumble around with their self-awareness like toddlers with scissors—aware enough to cut themselves, not wise enough to put the scissors down.

If reason had a landscape, it would look like this card: a maze of ascending and descending staircases, forever rational yet going nowhere. Kant might have called it a Critique of Pure Geometry. Pure Reason, the first card in the Postmodern set, isn’t so much an homage to Kant as it is a cautionary reconstruction. It honours his ambition to build a universe from deduction while quietly mourning the price of that construction: alienation from experience.

Whenever you point out that capitalism kills – quietly, bureaucratically, with paperwork instead of bullets—someone inevitably pipes up about the Great Leap Forward or the Holodomor. It’s a reflex, like the ideological hiccup of a system allergic to self-reflection. One such defender of the sacred market recently wrote: “Half a truth is often a great lie. What about the Great Leap Forward?

I recently posted The Ethics of Maintenance: Against the Myth of Natural Purpose. In it, I brushed – perhaps too lightly – against my debt to feminist philosophy. It’s time to acknowledge that debt more directly and explain how it spills into the mundane greasework of daily life. [Scroll to the bottom to see Midjourney's take on feminists. You won't be surprised…

Man starts over again every day, in spite of all he knows,against all he knows.— Emil Cioran I posted Chapter 26 of my novella, Propensity. I share it here because it invokes Baudrillard’s Si…

Telos is humanity's most persistent delusion – the idea that existence is crawling toward some luminous conclusion. From Aristotle's perfect forms to Nietzsche's Will to Power to Silicon Valley's AI salvation, the story barely changes: history, we are told, has direction. But direction is not destiny; it is momentum misinterpreted as meaning. Much of my Anti-Enlightenment attention – and my drive toward Dis-Integration – centres on this notion.

Man starts over again every day, in spite of all he knows,against all he knows.— Emil Cioran I posted Chapter 26 of my novella, Propensity. I share it here because it invokes Baudrillard's Simulacra. Consider it an advert – and a window into Propensity. Blog Post: Propensity, Chapter 26 – Simulacra Audio

This is one of the more popular posts on here, so I shouldn't have to give this milestone special attention, but I will anyway. Slow news day. It's more about economics and political science, but I go there, too. Not a big fan of Capitalism in any of its many incarnations. Video: Midjourney automation I decided to experiment with Midjourney for this cover art and short animation.

Audio: Philosopher Bry Willis discusses this topic. Postmodernism was summarised by Lyotard as having an incredulity toward metanarratives. What does this mean? What are metanarratives, and why har…

I maintain this blog for two primary reasons: as an archive, and as a forum for engagement. Philosophy isn’t a mass-market pursuit. Most people are content simply to make it through the day without undue turbulence, and I can hardly blame them. Thinking deeply is not an act of leisure; it’s a luxury product, one that Capitalism would rather you didn’t afford.

Before their Lost Decades, I lived in Japan. Years later, in the late ’80s and early ’90s, I found myself in business school learning about the miracle of Japanese management – the fabled antidote …

Rather, how to optimise your time commitment to reading. I came across a digital copy of The Intellectual Origins of Modernity by David Ohana as I was purusing titles on PhilArchive. The title piqued my interest, but I wasn't sure I wanted to commit to reading it. What's a bloke to do? Feed it to ChatGPT, of course. Let's just say, M.

Freedom is a word so overused it’s practically anaemic. Everyone wants it; no one agrees on what it means. It’s been weaponised by tyrants and revolutionaries alike, invoked to justify both the bre…

Freedom is a word so overused it’s practically anaemic. Everyone wants it; no one agrees on what it means. It’s been weaponised by tyrants and revolutionaries alike, invoked to justify both the breaking of chains and their reforging in a different metal. As I write this, I have just finished Erich Fromm's A Sane Society. Without derailing this post, he cited a scenario – a description of work communities given in…

A System Built on Exploitation and Neglect Capitalism, often celebrated for its ability to generate wealth and innovation, also brings with it a darker legacy: the untold millions of lives prematur…

Disclaimer: I should be finishing my Language Insufficiency Hypothesis book, yet I am here writing about death and dying. Why? Because I was watching an interview with Neil Schon by Rick Beato. I should have been working on my book then, too. It seems I can write about death more easily than finish a book about the failure of language.