philosophy
Through storytelling, capitalism appropriates the narrative and submits it to consumption. Storytelling produces narratives in a consumable form. It charges products with emotion. It promises unique experiences. We buy, sell and consume narratives and emotions. Stories sell. Storytelling is storyselling.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
Gongsheng—a philosophy of “co-becoming”.
“gongsheng expresses a condition of relationality not only concerning humans’ interdependence with each other and the natural world but also with technology as well.”
Noema, Fall 2024
What Love Really Means: Iris Murdoch on Unselfing, the Symmetry Between Art and Morality, and How We Unblind Ourselves to Each Other’s Realities
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgThe laws of thermodynamics encompass the whole of reality, from beginning to end, top to bottom, in origin, order and operation. We exist by virtue of heat exchange alone, and work entirely in service to the entropic decay of reality prescribed by that exchange.
Drew M Dalton • Reality is evil
On the space between waking and dreaming in Kafka’s diaries | Aeon Essays
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Decay, it seems, is the ultimate essence of existence, which means that our being must be understood as a mode of unbecoming.
Drew M Dalton • Reality is evil
we are nothing more than cups destined to shatter endlessly through time until there is nothing left to break.