Māter Dialectica
First as elegy, then as abasement
In the beginning of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five, he tells a metanarrative regarding
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
Oppenheimer Beach
In The Idiot Dostoevsky wrote, “God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying
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
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
The Dream Machine
Artificial intelligence (AI) has opened up a new horizon in the world of art. The intersection between AI and generative
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
Postmodernism contra Economic Justice
Economist David Harvey wrote, "This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact
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
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