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Speculative Philosophy on Screen: Identity, Agency, and the Fiction of Reality

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Can One Obstruct Justice in a Place It Doesn’t Exist?

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The Cold Blood of Creation

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Metamorphosis Inverted

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Ridley Park Propensity

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Parfit’s Long-Termism and Property Rights

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Monetary Fentynal: The Dirtiest Addiction of All

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On the Chronic Human Need to Anthropomorphise Everything

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The Rhetoric of Realism: When Language Pretends to Know

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The Scourge: They’re Really Fighting Is Ambiguity

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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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    Comrade Claude (11) – LAPD Protect and Serve – Philosophics on The Tunnel (Or: How Modernity Solves Precisely Nothing)Mar 3, 2026

    […] Original parables: Two Valleys, The Tunnel […]

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    Comrade Claude (11) – LAPD Protect and Serve – Philosophics on Two Valleys Diverged in a Mountain RangeMar 3, 2026

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