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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Nietzsche and Nick Cave

  • The story I have to tell is the history of the next two centuries

  • The victory over winter, which is coming, must come, perhaps has already come…

  • I lazily send songs like flocks of doves into the blue above⁠

  • What do you need to become who you 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

  • LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

  • On playing well and making yourself heard

  • Current mood in (not) AI generated images #136

  • Learning to enjoy your enjoyment

  • How to enjoy writing #19: not everything you write has to become something

  • Current mood in (not) AI generated images #88

  • The difference between what we want and what we think we want: some thoughts on the Lacanian concept of drive

  • The beautiful problem of the value of life

  • How to enjoy writing #13: Only ideas won by walking have any value

  • The Nietzschean Midday: Lacanian thoughts on the continual moment of possibility

  • Current mood in (not) AI generated images #80

  • I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves before them

  • To fail as a human being is to accept somebody else’s description of oneself

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

  • The chasm at the heart of our agency

  • What does it feel like to be inspired?

  • Groping nervously towards the expression of inner life

  • Nietzsche’s theory of dialogue and its implications for educational podcasting

  • Philosophical problems as existential problems: the difficulty of Nietzsche’s internal conversations

  • The light we steal when we write our books

  • Nietzsche on the narrow chamber of human consciousness

  • When writing is hard

  • Nietzsche, Consciousness and Virtue Ethics

  • Writing with One’s Feet

  • The pen is stubborn, sputters – hell!

  • Some auto-ethnographic thoughts on the phenomenology of writing

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