(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 5. Conclusion This essay will be published in five installments; this installment contains section 2. But you can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text … [continue reading]
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Toward a Critique of Psychedelic Reason, #1–Introduction.
(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 5. Conclusion This essay will be published in five installments; this installment contains section 1. But you can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text … [continue reading]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #13–Cosmos and Care: Reflections on Self-Cultivation.
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 featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members of the … [continue reading]
Sterile Spaces, Synthetic Humans, and Disentanglement: High Modernism and Our Alienation From Nature, #3.
Figure 1: Shigeru Ban’s “The House Without Walls.” Image via: arquitecturaviva.com. Photograph by: Shinkenchiku Sha. [High modernism] is best conceived as a strong, one might even say muscle-bound, version of the self-confidence about scientific and technical progress, the expansion of production, the growing satisfaction of human needs, the mastery of nature (including human nature), and, … [continue reading]
Sterile Spaces, Synthetic Humans, and Disentanglement: High Modernism and Our Alienation From Nature, #2.
Figure 1: Shigeru Ban’s “The House Without Walls.” Image via: arquitecturaviva.com. Photograph by: Shinkenchiku Sha. [High modernism] is best conceived as a strong, one might even say muscle-bound, version of the self-confidence about scientific and technical progress, the expansion of production, the growing satisfaction of human needs, the mastery of nature (including human nature), and, … [continue reading]
Sterile Spaces, Synthetic Humans, and Disentanglement: High Modernism and Our Alienation From Nature, #1.
Figure 1: Shigeru Ban’s “The House Without Walls.” Image via: arquitecturaviva.com. Photograph by: Shinkenchiku Sha. [High modernism] is best conceived as a strong, one might even say muscle-bound, version of the self-confidence about scientific and technical progress, the expansion of production, the growing satisfaction of human needs, the mastery of nature (including human nature), and, … [continue reading]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #11—There’s Nothing…And Everything.
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 300,000 views of the site, this series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members of the … [continue reading]
Old Empires Die Hard: Some Notes on The Second Cold War. (A Postscript to “2022: The Polycrisis So Far.”)
In response to my recent edgy essay, “2022: The Polycrisis So Far,”[i] we received an interesting question from a reader, Nathan Fifield, asking us whether or not we thought that this complex of crises had the potential to develop into a new Cold War? However, this new Cold War would not only be between China … [continue reading]
2022: The Polycrisis So Far.
The last 20-odd years of the EU are informally known as “the polycrisis.” If we take a brief look at the past decades, we can clearly see why this is so. In the tense aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the Iraq and Afghan conflicts, as well as numerous terrorist attacks, the Western mind … [continue reading]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #8–Ambition and Mortality.
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, nine years later, after more than 300,000 views of the site, this series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members of the … [continue reading]