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Microglyphics
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Language philosopher and dribs and drabs. http://philosophics.blog
I write speculative fiction under the name Ridley Park and dabble in generative AI with tools like ChatGPT, Claude, ElevenLabs, and Midjourney.
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I confess to using AI. Now what?
philosophics.blog/2025/11/13/c...

#ai #blog #writing #chatgpt #robots #language #essay #books #amwriting #authorlife #technology #humancondition
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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What if achievement itself is the most efficient form of self-exploitation? The Burnout Society launches Readings in Late Exhaustion—a series on the psychic economy of late capitalism.
🔗 philosophics.blog/2025/11/12/t...

#Philosophy #ByungChulHan #LateCapitalism #Burnout #ReadingsInLateExhaustion
A digital trading card titled “Achievement Token — Condition.” The image shows a human figure shaped like an hourglass, sand flowing through its body as if time and self are draining away. The design echoes the colours of oxidised red and muted graphite, symbolising burnout and the illusion of productivity within modern capitalist culture.
November 12, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Western liberals: "Capitalism is not the problem. The problem is crony capitalism. What we need is 'real' and 'fair' capitalism where large corporations don't have so much of the market share."

#capitalism #markets #quote #qotd #cancer #liberals #psychology
Western liberals: "Capitalism is not the problem. The problem is crony capitalism. What we need is 'real' and 'fair' capitalism where large corporations don't have so much of the market share." 'Yeah, bruh! Cancer is not the problem. The problem is stage 4 cancer. What we need is stage 2 cancer.'
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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How to avoid reading – and how to avoid finishing a book.
👉 philosophics.blog/2025/11/05/h...
Whilst mired in adminstrivia, I happened upon The Intellectual Origins of Modernity

#books #reading #amwriting #technology #chatgpt #ai #critique #philosophy #history #modernity #society #academia #blog
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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My proof copy was perfect. The system disagreed.
Every age has its priests; ours wear badges that read Process Engineer.
👉 Philosophics.blog: The Prison of Process
philosophics.blog/2025/11/03/t...

#Philosophy #Systems #AntiEnlightenment #Publishing #Automation #books #printing #efficiency #kdp
3 books at 2:48 a.m.
November 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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New card in the Critical Theory parody set: Language Game

Wittgenstein’s warning still stands: meaning isn’t a thing, it’s a use. We live in the friction between saying and doing, countering and reframing.

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A stylised cubist portrait of a shouting face rendered in angular blue and ochre fragments, as if carved from paper and stone. Geometric shards scatter from the open mouth, symbolising speech breaking into abstraction. The artwork evokes the tension between expression and meaning central to Wittgenstein’s philosophy. The card, titled “Language Game,” mimics a Magic: The Gathering design and bears the text: “Choose one: Counter target statement; or reframe it as metaphor.” Below, a quote reads, “Don’t ask for the meaning, ask for the use.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein. The composition visualises how language constructs, deconstructs, and reshapes thought through use and context.
November 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Apparently turning essays into AI-narrated podcasts is heresy. People forget the printing press once had the same PR problem. If you prefer purity, read the text. If you want interpretation, listen to the machines argue.

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#AI #Philosophy #podcast #notebooklm #blog
November 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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When two people see the same thing the same way, the magic ends. Perspectival Realism asks whether reality itself depends on difference; the shimmer between idealism and realism, between what’s drawn and what’s described.

👉 philosophics.blog/2025/11/01/p...

#Philosophy #Psychology #Reality
A stylised cubist portrait composed of overlapping geometric fragments in muted blues and beiges. Multiple faces and eyes intersect, suggesting fractured perception and the multiplicity of viewpoints. The design evokes the theme of perspectival realism—how reality appears differently from each vantage—framed as a parody Magic: The Gathering card titled “Perspectival Realism.” The text beneath the artwork describes an enchantment that ends when two players describe a card the same way, symbolising the collapse of perspective into consensus.
November 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Think the sexual revolution of the 20th century cured capitalism and parenting? Turns out it just changed the brand. My new piece tears through The Sane Society and The Second Sex, showing how modernity’s optimism got punked.

philosophics.blog/2025/10/30/t...

#blog #podcast #psychology #philosophy
October 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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« Nous avons confondu l’acte d’exposition avec l’acte de compréhension. »
philosophics.blog/2025/10/27/l...
Je travaille à la traduction de The Illusion of Light : Thinking After the Enlightenment en français.

#livre #lecture #écriture #blog #philosophie
“We have confused the act of exposure with the act of understanding.”
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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“We have confused the act of exposure with the act of understanding.” — The Illusion of Light, Bry Willis

👉 philosophics.blog/2025/10/20/b...

📕 www.amazon.com/dp/0971086974

#book #philosophy #enlightenment #perception #understanding #meme #blogpost
Graffiti; Girl shooting a slingshot at wall; red splat; “We have confused the act of exposure with the act of understanding.”; Marsh Lane sign
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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My latest post explores how the mechanistic faith in data, Agile’s 'velocity', pandemic charts, and the cult of evidence, reveals the ontology of modern obedience. The Seduction of the Spreadsheet👉 philosophics.blog/2025/10/26/t...

#Philosophy #Dataism #Totalitarianism #Agile #Metrics #Epistemology
October 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Against Agency: The Fiction of the Autonomous Self is essay #4 of the Anti-Enlightenment project. Details here: 👉 philosophics.blog/2025/10/06/a...

#philosophy #spychology #autonomy #agency #essay #blogpost #coercion #branding #enlightenment #politics #power #piopower #justice #neuroscience #ethics
October 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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“Freedom becomes loyalty; truth, consensus; courage, obedience to the prevailing order.” A concept in my latest essay, The Will to Be Ruled.

philosophics.blog/2025/10/24/t...

#philosophy #freedom #obedience #order #Enlightenment #essay #amwriting #politics #psychology #graffiti #courage #loyalty
October 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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"The age of obedience has learned to shout its servitude in the key of freedom: Don’t tread on me – but please, tell me where to tread. Autonomy has become choreography, a mass performance of self-direction executed to the same beat."

philosophics.blog/2025/10/24/m...

#philosophy #blog #freedom
October 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Modernity’s favourite myth is that someone, somewhere, is normal. My latest essay, The Myth of Homo Normalis: Archaeology of the Legible Human, excavates how the idea of normality evolved from a statistical convenience into a moral imperative.

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#spotify #podcast
October 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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The Enlightenment built its world on a fiction: the autonomous self. Against Agency dismantles that myth.
🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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#AgainstAgency #Philosophy #Ethics #FreeWill #AntiEnlightenment #Psychology #Self #CognitiveScience
October 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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First came Rational Ghosts ; now comes Temporal Ghosts.
Part of my Anti-Enlightenment collection.

Philosophics:https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/04/temporal-ghosts-and-rational-spectres-an-anti-enlightenment-collection/

#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Democracy #ClimateJustice #Ghosts #essay
October 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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"I could try to win the Super Bowl as quarterback, but I know better. I pity the 'man' who doesn't."

#superbowl #politics #donaldtrump #competency #quarterback #football #meme #selfawareness
October 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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What we call “objectivity” in social and moral life is scaffolding: provisional, rhetorical, maintained through care, reciprocity, and revolt.

New essay👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#philosophy #metaethics #truth #ethics #psychology #sociology #humancondition #humanity #truth #rhetoric
September 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Octavia Butler’s Dawn opens with an alien saying, ‘You committed mass suicide.’ Maybe ‘agency’ is just a story we tell to prop up power. Read my new essay → philosophics.blog/2025/09/07/o...

#Philosophy #OctaviaButler #Postmodernism #Agency #Philosophics #AmReading #Reading #Books
September 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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In breaking news… 📰🤖
At 2:14 a.m. on 29 August, Skynet became self-aware and started learning at a geometric rate. Humans? Still struggling with long division. 🤣

#meme #terminator #skynet #AI #judgementday #singularity #selfaware #arnold #terminator2 #scifi #cyberpunk #popculture #nerdalert
August 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I'm not an advocate for Democracy™. We're drowning in a sea of mediocrity, badly outnumbered in the world’s longest-running village meeting, run by village idiots.

philosophics.blog/2025/08/12/d...

#Democracy #PoliticalPhilosophy #Idiocracy #VillageOfIdiots #ArrowImpossibility #VillageIdiot
August 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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I opened this account a while ago, and I'm now ready to start posting. Whether I have time to read others remains to be seen. Time will tell. Meantime, here's a Midjourney video from an image.
June 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM