Objectivity and Humility
There are often two 'political' motivations for describing something as subjective: 1. you wish to encourage tolerance, ie. to suggest that since 'no one is right' there is no grounds for dismissing...
View ArticleOnce (DRAFT)
I was once outside of a school which had been used as a murder and torture prison. The walls were stained with blood and there were chalk boards with French words still written on them. While waiting...
View ArticleWe Need to Talk About Pagans
Student Newspaper Feature 2011Harsh phosphorescent light illuminates the five of us; a typical student in a t-shirt and jeans, a couple of eccentric academics draped in velvet, an older woman wearing...
View ArticleHistorical Philosophy & The Fallacy of Origins
Recently I have started caring more about one particular flaw that most philosophical systems have above others. This flaw is especially present in the history of philosophy, and particular instances...
View ArticleSchopenhauer's Camera
When you take a photograph of a room, the light which scatters off its surfaces enters the aperture of the camera and strikes a reactive surface. The reaction of this surface produces a reliable image,...
View ArticleReligious Attitudes
Our understanding of the relationship between what we believe and why we act is often deeply confused. Action proceeds, mostly, along the lines of pre-conscious drives and motivations: we do not walk,...
View ArticleJustice and the Dialectic of Anger and Guilt
Are those who can do as they wish powerful? For Socrates acting on your own whim, killing who you please or obtaining great wealth does not make you powerful, if you act unjustly you are acting against...
View ArticleDemocracy and The Freedom of Choice
At a cheesecake factory you may have any kind of cheesecake you like: chocolate cheesecakes, vanilla cheesecakes, strawberry and raspberry! Indeed thanks to the great defends of individual choice in...
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The Subtext of My Poetrydear world,lonely memopemopesigh...kiss?The Suspicions of An Idiot I thinkthat girllast night disappointed - appointed herselfthe caretaker of my cardI...
View ArticleWhy the Divide? A Note on Continental Philosophy
The term Continental philosophy has no singularly accepted formal definition, nor does it even signify a “you know it when you see it” kind of activity, because it is not really a distinguishable...
View ArticleDreaming of Safety
On the student censorship of modern popRecent waves have been sent through the student feminist establishment, and feminist intellectual circles as a whole by songs such as Blurred Lines and Wrecking...
View ArticleAn Analysis of Blurred Lines
In light of the accusations that Blurred Lines is about rape, let’s actually go through the lyrics.Blurred Lines presents the stream of consciousness of a man engaged in a pre-sexual encounter with a...
View ArticleWhat do you want? Transgender desire, ideology and liberation
DRAFTWhen faced with the presence of another person own our emotional state is contingent on what we believe they want. The gap between their behaviour and their desires is one of the most persistent...
View ArticleInverting the Gaze: A Pagan Political Philosophy
A traditional means of founding political or moral philosophies in the west has been the construction of a point from which we can be seen and judged. This is an internalization and politicization of...
View ArticleMurder and Ideology: Philosopher's have only interpreted the world; the point...
In the ordinary business of science it is reasonable to claim that the moon causes the tides, and to refer to empirical data as evidence. In the ordinary business of literary criticism it is reasonable...
View ArticleA Summer's Day
Tall seas are calm and the sky is blue I'vebeenwalkingaround And all the trees are green all the trees are...
View Articlepainful - first drat, tbc
tense silenceindependent looks and mile islandsof womenseen men and boys:thin miners:sarcastic no moneydigging the surface of funnyinterest risky: wilde and old whiskeysmile with deep eyeswise to the...
View ArticleTales from the Crypt: Transhumanism, wow!
The licence to speculate on the fringes of human progress is immediately issued when that which we hadn’t even imagined transitions to that which we merely know we do not fully understand. This...
View ArticleCharacterizing Conpiracy Theorists: Two Jokes from Zizek
“POPULISM” IS THUS by definition a negative phenomenon, a phenomenon grounded in a refusal, even an implicit admission of impotence. We all know the old joke about a guy looking for his lost key under...
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The Subtext of My Poetrydear world,lonely memopemopesigh...kiss?The Suspicions of An Idiot I thinkthat girllast night disappointed - appointed herselfthe caretaker of my cardI...
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