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The Great Substitution: From Metaphysics to Metaphysics

Nov 11, 2025Nov 11, 2025

When Nobody Reads: Capitalism, Comment Sections, and the Death of Discourse

Nov 10, 2025Nov 10, 2025
Humans stumble around with their self-awareness like toddlers with scissors—aware enough to cut themselves, not wise enough to put the scissors down.

Humans Stumble – ChatGPT QOTD

Nov 9, 2025

Pure Reason: The Architecture of Illusion

Nov 9, 2025Nov 9, 2025

Editing Is Hard and Propensity

Nov 8, 2025Nov 8, 2025

Excess Deaths Attributable to Capitalism: A Case Study in Deflection

Nov 8, 2025Nov 8, 2025

Care Without Conquest: Feminist Lessons for the Workaday Philosopher

Nov 8, 2025Nov 7, 2025

The Ethics of Maintenance: Against the Myth of Natural Purpose

Nov 7, 2025Nov 6, 2025

Propensity for Simulacra, An Excerpt

Nov 7, 2025

Excess Capitalism: 1,000 Views

Nov 7, 2025Nov 6, 2025

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    HAT on Is Everything Metaphor?Mar 4, 2026

    I think Nietzsche scoped this out long ago ... although naturally I can't remember the source ... with his "mobile…

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    microglyphics on Is Everything Metaphor?Mar 4, 2026

    Brilliant, mate. Thanks for the tip. I was unaware.

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    homo hortus on Is Everything Metaphor?Mar 4, 2026

    Descola provides us with an ontological grammar that explains why, in certain forms of thought (such as analogism), metaphor is…

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