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On the Chronic Human Need to Anthropomorphise Everything

Jun 5, 2025Jun 5, 2025

The Rhetoric of Realism: When Language Pretends to Know

May 30, 2025May 30, 2025

The Scourge: They’re Really Fighting Is Ambiguity

May 27, 2025May 27, 2025

When “Advanced” Means Genocide: A Case Study in Linguistic Implosion

May 26, 2025May 26, 2025

The Disorder of Saying No

May 25, 2025May 26, 2025

Semantic Drift: When Language Outruns the Science

May 24, 2025May 24, 2025

The Indexing Abyss: A Cautionary Tale in Eight Chapters

May 22, 2025May 22, 2025
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Sustenance: A Book About Aliens, Language, and Everything You’re Getting Wrong

May 21, 2025May 21, 2025
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On Ishiguro, Cioran, and Whatever I Think I’m Doing

May 18, 2025May 18, 2025

The Trust Myth: Harari’s Binary and the Collapse of Political Credibility

May 15, 2025May 15, 2025

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    Philosophics on Translation Troubles: Language and the Evasion of MeaningMay 30, 2026

    True enough. Disney does tend to F up most things it touches. I found this history after I read your…

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    nickdruryfad63dc877 on Translation Troubles: Language and the Evasion of MeaningMay 30, 2026

    Your comments about Pooh apply to the Americanisation of Pooh by Disney - which I have always thought wrong ....

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    Black Skin, White Masks, Chapter 5 – Philosophics on Fanon’s PsychologyMay 23, 2026

    […] I complained about the psychoanalytic approach Fanon employed in Black Skin, White Masks, Chapter 4, The So-Called Dependency Complex…

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    Black Skin, White Masks, Chapter 5 – Philosophics on Path Less TravelledMay 23, 2026

    […] In the end, we may both at least tacitly agree that colonialism, and the Enlightenment more generally, was not…

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    Philosophics on Snuff, a Study in Ontological GrammarMay 18, 2026

    I can see why the ontology of difference is appealing. It resists reducing the encounter to identity, diagnosis, model, or…

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