• Philosophy is what is left over when you bracket out common sense and expertise

• I was convinced there was another sort of life waiting for me

• Mari Ruti on the (psychoanalytically informed) art of living well

• Why do we want what we want?

• Heidegger on Lacan: “It seems to me the psychiatrist needs a psychiatrist”

• On realising you’re actually a hedgehog

• The absence of God becomes the silence between two notes, the empty space that gave resonance to the music

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

• The poem feeds upon thought, feeling, impulse, to breed itself

• What does thinking sound like to you?

• The influence of Kojève on Lacan

• We make poetry out of a mouthful of air

• Unrequited meaning

• Depressive breakcore as a rift in the sublime

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

• What do you need to become who you are?

• 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

• The far-right turn of Blue Labour and the political ontology of post-liberalism

• Black Pill Claude’s bleak vision of the coming future: the peaceful extinction of human agency

• 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?

• Hegel’s account of the righteous violence of education

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

• Why do some people enjoy social theory while others don’t?

• David Hume on escaping an overheated brain

• Why do we read philosophy?

• The loneliness of Ludwig Wittgenstein

• What noisily calls itself philosophy

• The Hegelian sociology of Gillian Rose

• bruno latour’s philosophical sociology

• Social Theory and Intellectual Translation

• The intellectual sclerosis of ageing philosophers

• “But isn’t that what the psychologists do?”: the dangers of disciplinary boundary work