And justice? Is justice possible under capitalism? Not according to three renown metaphysicians, to steal a quote from an ex-everything of mine:

(1) “There can never be justice on stolen land” (Krs-One)

(2) “All Property is Theft” (Proudhon)

(3) “Every man has a property in his own person” (Locke)

Therefore, the very existence of human beings and... See more

we basically need to go on an information diet, and consume less information, and be far more mindful about what we put inside.

An AI scenario you should not ignore Yuval Noah Harari 2024?

The point is that perhaps quarantine is “holy” and the so-called “leper” not merely a victim, but a “chosen one.”

The Jew as Blessed Outcast Zohar Atkins 4.12.2024

Metamorphic rocks embody the animate, resilient, creative nature of the solid Earth. For us mortal Earthlings, they speak of the possibility of reinvention, the beauty of transformation – and the ephemerality of any particular version of the world.

Roaming rocks: Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and... See more

This form of anonymous, procedural power, which I’ve characterised elsewhere as “swarmism”, has emerged as a central feature of post-liberal governance. To supporters, it’s innocuous: just well-designed institutions functioning as they should.

[“deep state” (Bannon) “the Cathedral” (Curtis Yarvin)]

Why the Right loves a Great Man Mary Harrington... See more

In the event, Mattei divides the common goods into 4 types, and each is argued to properly belong to everyone in a community, and not to a particular someone or company. To wit:

natural goods (water, air, the environment, etc.)

social goods (cultural goods, knowledge, historical memory, etc.)

material goods (public squares, public parks, gardens,... See more

And as we’ve grown accustomed to watching memes travel and mutate like this, across millions of individual minds, it’s become less eccentric to imagine them as more than the sum of their parts: as though they have a “spirit” and agaenda of their own. Some will say this is just an illusion; or that we don’t know but it’s a useful shorthand to talk... See more

What if the psyche were a thing held in common? That is to say, what if our purchase on reality and the emergence of the self depended on human relationships and communities? From this perspective, the enclosure of the human psyche deprives us of a common world, which yields an experience of solidarity and belonging.

The Enclosure of the Human... See more

on the topic of horizons and thresholds, limits and walls, and their appropriately hidden transversals (vertere, from the root *wer-, “to turn, bend”). From this place, we understand liminality to be that initiatory threshold where the limits of our knowing meets the horizon of our being.

Three Theses on Liminality: On Thresholds, Interregnums, and... See more