The Disappearing Imagination: What Happens When Everything Is Shown?

How visual culture, smartphones, and digital media are changing our ability to imagine, remember, and think independently.

I’m Not Leaving Yet, But I Have a Bag

Why I’m moving my writing somewhere I own, and how you can come with me

Something is Growing Here

A letter from the editor on what comes next, and why we need you for it.

The Technology That Quietly Changed the Way We Think

From oral storytelling to printed books and digital screens, the history of communication is also the history of how human consciousness…

The oldest story at the end of time

Before doomscrolling there was wiki-rabbit-holing. You know, where you start with the Wikipedia page on Apollo 13 and somehow end up four…

The Fragility of Knowledge: Why Nothing Should Escape Questioning

From Derrida’s deconstruction to academic institutions, explore how knowledge acquires authority, conceals assumptions, and becomes…

Every Stable Society Is Built on Hidden Contradictions

What Slavoj Žižek, Hegel, and Lacan reveal about the fragile structures beneath political order, social stability, and our everyday lives.

What Socrates Can Teach Us About Love, Ourselves, and Being Human

From ancient Greek philosophy to modern literature and cinema, a journey into why understanding love begins with questioning what we think…

The Myth of Lilith: From Demon to Feminist Icon

From ancient Mesopotamian demonology to Jewish folklore, explore the mythology of Adam’s rebellious first wife.

Carcinization: The Tendency for Every Rebellion to Evolve into the Same Crab

How the pursuit of individuality, rebellion, and authenticity can lead us all toward the same existential destination.

The Self Was Never Whole: Žižek on the Fractured Human Subject

From Descartes to Lacan, Slavoj Žižek challenges our belief in a unified identity and reveals how language, desire, ideology, and…

The Person You Think Will Die Has Already Disappeared

We spend our lives fearing the end of ourselves. But what if we have misunderstood who, or even what, we are?

Waiting on God

(Fullness in life comes from focusing on things, good, true, and beautiful)

My Book is Now Available

A Grammar of the Sacred: Consciousness, Value and the Structure of a Worthwhile Life

the mass swallows the individual

about the euphoria of the mass and the loss of one’s own judgment

Stop Sacrificing Your Life for Money. Try This Instead.

You’ve probably been sold this story your whole life: first you work hard and suffer. Then one day, after enough sacrifice, you finally…

The Ideology You See Through Is Still Controlling You

Slavoj Žižek, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the uncomfortable truth about why understanding a system’s flaws doesn’t necessarily free us…

I don’t have to

I don’t have to be near you to love you