Hermes Pulaski

Hermes Pulaski

Sep
16
Māter Dialectica

Māter Dialectica

First as elegy, then as abasement In the beginning of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five, he tells a metanarrative regarding
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Aug
12
The biggest lie I ever said

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
7 min read
Jul
18
Oppenheimer Beach

Oppenheimer Beach

In The Idiot Dostoevsky wrote, “God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying
9 min read
Jul
18
Aesthetic Theory (Taylor's Version)

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
5 min read
Jul
07
If you want to win the lottery...

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
7 min read
Jun
19
The Dream Machine

The Dream Machine

Artificial intelligence (AI) has opened up a new horizon in the world of art. The intersection between AI and generative
7 min read
Jun
17
Potentially Lucid Crystal Left in Darkness

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
5 min read
Jun
02
Postmodernism contra Economic Justice

Postmodernism contra Economic Justice

Economist David Harvey wrote, "This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact
7 min read
May
28
Rational Choice, Critical Choice, Contextually-Veiled Choice; Musing on the Possible Justices.

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
13 min read
May
11
Concentrating Power and Concentrating Neglect in the New American Epoch

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
10 min read