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Alexander Karp's Iron Cage: A Review of The Technological Republic original ↗

9 Sept 2025

Plato's Playbook original ↗

29 Jul 2025

Deregulation and the State Arms-Race Each Other Into Cyberspace original ↗

26 Jul 2025

Plato: The First Indie Scholar (Plus a NorCal Meetup in 3 Weeks)original ↗

7 Jul 2025

The Body Count Climbs Through a Series of Globewars original ↗

26 Jun 2025

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A Blow to the Head original ↗

23 Feb 2025

Catastrophe and Child's Play original ↗

16 Feb 2025

Homo Sacer and the Invention of Reading original ↗

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The Next 5 Years of Other Life (Part 3)original ↗

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2024

Nietzsche's Big Mistake: Three Ideas on Christianity original ↗

23 Nov 2024

Manny Farber's Rhizome original ↗

24 Aug 2024

On IVF and Embryo Selection original ↗

24 Aug 2024

Libidinal Economies original ↗

10 Aug 2024

Dostoevsky vs. Nietzsche original ↗

3 Aug 2024

Deadline Tonight original ↗

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You Can Probably Just Have It original ↗

30 Jul 2024

Walls as a Service original ↗

27 Jul 2024

Logistically Accelerating Techno-Economic Interactivity original ↗

26 Jul 2024

How Renaissance Rationalization and Oceanic Navigation Locked Into Commodotization Takeoff original ↗

26 Jul 2024

The Life of Spinoza as an Independent Scholar original ↗

26 Jul 2024

No Doesn’t Always Mean No original ↗

20 Jul 2024

On Angelicism and Post-Academic Futures original ↗

6 Jul 2024

Angels and Communication original ↗

6 Jul 2024

The Divorce Revolution: How a Social Tragedy Became a Personal Triumph original ↗

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Video Game Syndrome original ↗

2 Jul 2024

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28 Jun 2024

Seminars, Meetups, and Dinners in NYC, Philly, Austin original ↗

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Wittgenstein's Religion original ↗

12 Jun 2024

Heraclitus, Nietzsche, John the Apostle, and a Wyoming Trip Report original ↗

8 Jun 2024

The Social Mobility Illusion original ↗

8 Jun 2024

Urbit and the Telos of the Creator Economy original ↗

17 May 2024

What to Do After the Orgy original ↗

10 May 2024

Ask for the Truth: Marshall McLuhan's Catholicism original ↗

30 Apr 2024

Society Is a Corpse That Purges at the Mouth original ↗

30 Apr 2024

The Montaigne Paradox original ↗

30 Apr 2024

Write to Yourself and Yourself Alone original ↗

30 Apr 2024

Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio: Detailed Summary original ↗

23 Apr 2024

Time Capsules and Air Lifts original ↗

22 Apr 2024

Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier: Detailed Summary original ↗

21 Apr 2024

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard: Detailed Summary original ↗

20 Apr 2024

Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest by Nick Land: A Detailed Guide original ↗

20 Apr 2024

After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre: A Detailed Guide original ↗

17 Apr 2024

The Rising Returns to Focus original ↗

9 Apr 2024

On the Unleavened (A Thought for Easter)original ↗

31 Mar 2024

North by Northwest 2024: The Annual Other Life Meetup original ↗

29 Feb 2024

The Height From Which No One Is Cast Down original ↗

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There Is a Time to Polish Your Rifle and a Time to Fire original ↗

21 Feb 2024

A Simple View of Bitcoin in Historical Perspective original ↗

20 Feb 2024

The Auteur and the Ghetto original ↗

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Nietzsche on the Pride of the Philosopher in Contrast to the Slave original ↗

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On the Miracle and Scandal of Education original ↗

20 Feb 2024

The Magic, the Money, and the Madness original ↗

19 Feb 2024

Introducing the New Monthly Print Issue original ↗

9 Feb 2024

On Suburban Kings and Academic Revolutions original ↗

26 Jan 2024

Diogenes on Excellence and How to Be Unstoppably Happy original ↗

23 Jan 2024

On Idea Hoarding original ↗

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St. Francis and the Obscure Logic of Cultural Influence original ↗

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Unpopular Truths About Mate Selection original ↗

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Nick Land on AI Acceleration original ↗

7 Nov 2023

Lacan, Leibniz, and English as a Programming Language original ↗

6 Nov 2023

There is No Winning the Culture War original ↗

6 Nov 2023

The Independent Scholar's Guide to Twitter/X original ↗

30 Oct 2023

Virilio, Parenting, and the Network State original ↗

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On Form, Israel, and the Death Athletic original ↗

27 Oct 2023

Emerson's 21 Principles of Self-Reliance original ↗

11 Oct 2023

On Shakespeare, Wyoming, and Merely Staying Afloat original ↗

11 Oct 2023

Return to the Future of Classical Education original ↗

8 Oct 2023

The Billionaire Gentleman Scholar original ↗

6 Oct 2023

Generate Subtle Tweets From an Essay in the Style of the Author original ↗

6 Oct 2023

How to Build Software With Natural Language original ↗

6 Oct 2023

Recursively Self-Improving Writers original ↗

6 Oct 2023

Plato, Prose, and "Selective Breeding"original ↗

23 Sept 2023

The Rigor of Angels: Kant, Borges, Heisenberg original ↗

16 Sept 2023

The Delirium of Reason: On William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984)original ↗

15 Sept 2023

Montaigne, Mary Emerson, and the Race to Own Yourself original ↗

7 Sept 2023

Intent on Truth: St. Augustine's Philosophy of History in The City of God original ↗

29 Aug 2023

If You Can Articulate, You’re All Set: Russell, Yeats, Gaddis original ↗

26 Aug 2023

Everything You Know About Audience-Building is Wrong original ↗

24 Aug 2023

War as the Truest Form of Divination: On Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian original ↗

20 Aug 2023

"Ask for the Truth:" The Medium and the Light by Marshall McLuhan original ↗

18 Aug 2023

The Solitary Volcano: Four Lessons from the Life of Ezra Pound original ↗

2 Aug 2023

Cybergothic: From John Milton to Nick Land original ↗

25 Jul 2023

Ezra Pound and the Aristocratic Spirit original ↗

25 Jul 2023

Signaling Through the Flames: Artaud's Inquisition original ↗

25 Jul 2023

Catholic Instead of What? By Alasdair MacIntyre original ↗

21 Jul 2023

René Girard's Anthropology of the Cross original ↗

21 Jul 2023

On Julien Benda's The Treason of the Intellectuals (1927)original ↗

20 Jul 2023

The Industrialization of the Mind original ↗

17 Jul 2023

Excess Vitality and Reversible Modernity: Wyndham Lewis, Leo Strauss, and the Art of Reading original ↗

14 Jul 2023

Literary Outlaw: Three Lessons from William S. Burroughs original ↗

13 Jul 2023

The Weight of Glory original ↗

7 Jul 2023

From Self-Pity to Pulitzer: Lessons from the Life of John Kennedy Toole original ↗

4 Jul 2023