Sep 16 Māter Dialectica First as elegy, then as abasement In the beginning of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five, he tells a metanarrative regarding Sep 16, 2023 7 min read
Aug 12 The biggest lie I ever said Olivia Rodrigo battles critical false consciousness and the Laschian wound One of the key concepts in critical theory is the Aug 12, 2023 7 min read
Jul 18 Oppenheimer Beach In The Idiot Dostoevsky wrote, “God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying Jul 18, 2023 9 min read
Jul 18 Aesthetic Theory (Taylor's Version) Adorno wrote, “The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which Jul 18, 2023 5 min read
Jul 07 If you want to win the lottery... In the 2014 film Nightcrawler, Lou Bloom is a down-on-his-luck hustler who stumbles upon the world of nightcrawling, or freelance Jul 7, 2023 7 min read
Jun 19 The Dream Machine Artificial intelligence (AI) has opened up a new horizon in the world of art. The intersection between AI and generative Jun 19, 2023 7 min read
Jun 17 Potentially Lucid Crystal Left in Darkness The contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious. People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of Jun 17, 2023 5 min read
Jun 02 Postmodernism contra Economic Justice Economist David Harvey wrote, "This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact Jun 2, 2023 7 min read
May 28 Rational Choice, Critical Choice, Contextually-Veiled Choice; Musing on the Possible Justices. This will be fairly unstructured and informal, but hopefully (thankfully, for my readers lol) my last on the Johns (Nash May 28, 2023 13 min read
May 11 Concentrating Power and Concentrating Neglect in the New American Epoch In C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite, there are a couple of core observations made about the structure of American May 11, 2023 10 min read