Nebula Rasa: Exploring the Diaphanous, #2.

“Diaphanous” (2024) (Author, AI-generated via Freepik.com) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Two Suggestions about the Diaphanous 3. Historical Background 4. Cognitivism and Creativity: A Concise Overview 5. From Cognitivism to Propensity 6. The Work at Work, or, the Effective Present 7. The Diaphanous as Generative Stimulus 8. Conclusion This essay was previously published in … [continue reading]

Nebula Rasa: Exploring the Diaphanous, #1.

“Diaphanous” (2024) (Author, AI-generated via Freepik.com) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Two Suggestions about the Diaphanous 3. Historical Background 4. Cognitivism and Creativity: A Concise Overview 5. From Cognitivism to Propensity 6. The Work at Work, or, the Effective Present 7. The Diaphanous as Generative Stimulus 8. Conclusion This essay was previously published in … [continue reading]

A Philosopher’s Diary, #15–Rules For Thinking.

“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” by Francisco Goya (Los Caprichos, #43, 1799) The descriptive sub-title of this blog—Against Professional Philosophy—originally created and rolled out in 2013, is “A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary.” Now, ten years later, after more than 350,000 views of the site, this series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by … [continue reading]

From Reductionism to Simplicity: Against Modernist  Minimalism and Towards a New Monastic Minimalism, #4.

Figure 1: Courtyard of the St. Benedictusberg Abbey, designed by Dom. Hans van der Laan. Photograph by author. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Modernism and Minimalism: Reductionism as Paradigm 2. Monastic Minimalism: Six Defining Features 3. Against Mechanistic Materialism 4. Conclusion This essay has been published in four installments, one per section. You can also download … [continue reading]

From Reductionism to Simplicity: Against Modernist  Minimalism and Towards a New Monastic Minimalism, #3.

Figure 1: Courtyard of the St. Benedictusberg Abbey, designed by Dom. Hans van der Laan. Photograph by author. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Modernism and Minimalism: Reductionism as Paradigm 2. Monastic Minimalism: Six Defining Features 3. Against Mechanistic Materialism 4. Conclusion This essay will be published in four installments, one per section. You can also download … [continue reading]

From Reductionism to Simplicity: Against Modernist  Minimalism and Towards a New Monastic Minimalism, #2.

Figure 1: Courtyard of the St. Benedictusberg Abbey, designed by Dom. Hans van der Laan. Photograph by author. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Modernism and Minimalism: Reductionism as Paradigm 2. Monastic Minimalism: Six Defining Features 3. Against Mechanistic Materialism 4. Conclusion This essay will be published in four installments, one per section. You can also download … [continue reading]

From Reductionism to Simplicity: Against Modernist  Minimalism and Towards a New Monastic Minimalism, #1.

Figure 1: Courtyard of the St. Benedictusberg Abbey, designed by Dom. Hans van der Laan. Photograph by author. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Modernism and Minimalism: Reductionism as Paradigm 2. Monastic Minimalism: Six Defining Features 3. Against Mechanistic Materialism 4. Conclusion This essay will be published in four installments, one per section. You can also download … [continue reading]

Aphorisms Toward A Cultural Philosophy For The Present Time, #8–From the Fear Machine to the Malign Metaverse.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction: Autonomism at the Gates 2. Aphorisms 1-11: Social Dictatorship 3. Aphorisms 12-24: State Power 4. Aphorisms 25-38: Guilt and Exculpation 5. Aphorisms 39-52: Confusion and Control 6. Aphorisms 53-61: The Myth of Order 7. Aphorisms 62-83: Mechanisms of the State Apparatus 8. Aphorisms 84-109: From the Fear-Machine to the Malign … [continue reading]

Aphorisms Toward A Cultural Philosophy For The Present Time, #7–Introduction: Autonomism at the Gates.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction: Autonomism at the Gates 2. Aphorisms 1-11: Social Dictatorship 3. Aphorisms 12-24: State Power 4. Aphorisms 25-38: Guilt and Exculpation 5. Aphorisms 39-52: Confusion and Control 6. Aphorisms 53-61: The Myth of Order 7. Aphorisms 62-83: Mechanisms of the State Apparatus This is the seventh installment in the series, although … [continue reading]

Toward a Critique of Psychedelic Reason, #5–Elaboration 3, & Conclusion.

(Vervaeke, 2022) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Magic Mushrooms and Drug Use in Modern Society 3. A Preliminary Phenomenology of Psychedelic Experience 4. Elaborations 1 &2 5. Elaboration 3, & Conclusion REFERENCES This essay will be published in five installments; this fifth and final installment contains the third part of section 4, the Conclusion, … [continue reading]