• How do cultural objects change who we are?

• Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say

• An epoch approaching extinction while something new is straining to evolve

• “Think of life as an open wound, which you poke with a stick to amuse yourself”

• A sketch of the psychodynamics of LLMs

• A thinker lives in the dog’s kennel adjacent to his mind palace

• René Girard as reductive Lacanianism

• Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard | Full Length Documentary

• Foucault’s approach to writing

• Companions in the infinite rather than comfort animals

• Music can grip us with the energy of a religious conversion. Once it is heard, one never experiences the world in quite the same way

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• On respect for what exists

• The wayward temporality of psychic life

• The cultural politics of AI and the impasse of atomisation

• Disillusioned Awakenings in Dark Times: Reading Bernard Stiegler after the Covid Event

• An example of using Claude to ask questions from Kindle highlights and notes

• The liquidation of significance and symbolic misery

• The moral force of attention and its psychic foundations

• Gillian Rose on the satisfaction of writing and the joyful agony of loving

• Avant-garde theorising is a reflection of the competitive individualism of the academy

• Pierpaolo Donati’s relational humanism

• Our conception of the lifeworld needs the mundane as much as it needs the dramatic

• The unacknowledged debt of Richard Rorty to the ethos of post-war Oxford philosophy

• From foxes and hedgehogs to menders and knockers: Berlin’s other distinction

• Things Stoics say that I want to remember #1

• How did J. L. Austin’s war time experience shape his theory of performativity?