• Rilke on the single urgent task: to reach out with joy

• Gabor Mate’s definition of addiction

• On walking at dusk

• An accelerationist response to generative AI

• Escaping the crystallised pattern of our personal system

• Thirty years of running, thirty years of searching

• You know those times where everything was golden?

• Every discomfort is only an abortive metaphysical experience

• What it is like to be mistreated as an object, without having the capacity to assume the position of subject

• The metaverse and the next pandemic

• The tension between attachment and authenticity

• Nick Cave on extending a hand to assist the world

• On waiting for something to happen

• What is trauma?

• The romance of the ascent of the humanity

• John Stuart Mill on libidinal collapse: some thoughts on socialisation and human purpose

• Choose life: some notes on Lacan’s death drive

• But then why do you write? Nietzsche on the necessity of getting rid of your thoughts

• I’m a lifeless face that you’ll soon forget

• The death drive as a will to create from zero, to begin again