The Oltrant: A Philosophical Hypothesis Beyond Duration and Memory
Can something meaningful exist in moments that do not persist? I began reflecting on this question from a concrete experience. During an extended interaction...
When Should We Argue?
Don’t feed the trolls arguments.
When someone is wrong—on the Internet or in the coffee shop—the temptation to engage can be strong, even though it...
Feeling Like Oneself
When I was at graduate school I read a passage from John Campbell that lodged itself somewhere in my brain, where it has remained...
A Black Detective in the White House: The Residence
For Bob Grunst, the only twitcher I know
“Unpredictable recurrence is not a sign of language's ambiguity but is a fact: of language, as such,...
Writing Matters
Does writing have a future?
This eerily prophetic question was posed by media theorist and phenomenologist Vilém Flusser back in 1987. Amidst the ever-expanding use...
Towards a Conception of Systemic Discrimination
What is involved in seeing discrimination as systemic and structural, and how could such an approach help us identify injustices, or aspects of injustices,...
When Jokes Won’t Do: Affective Shifts in U.S. Late-Night Comedy
The news these days seems dire, so much so that people are opting out. News avoidance is a rapidly increasing phenomenon, mainly because a...
The Paradox of China’s Crypto Regulation and Capital Going Global (Part 2)
The Global Expansion of Chinese Crypto Capital and the Systemic Collapse of Community Culture
In Part 1, I examined how China and the United States...
The Possibility of Love at First Sight
It is often asked if love at first sight is possible. Love is certainly possible. Adopting an attitude by looking at a person or...
Should Men Be Ashamed of Their AI Girlfriends?
More and more people are engaging with AI chatbots in seemingly social ways. Contemporary LLMs have become unsettlingly good at mimicking text-based chats between...