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Index · 10 essays

Essays

Writing away from the keyboard — on perception, memory, time, and mind. Where the research background shows up in a different register.

  • Real

    • philosophy
    • psychoanalysis

    Children's stories and the love that makes you real — the Velveteen Rabbit, the fox, and Winnicott.

  • The Face That Does Not Exist

    • philosophy
    • levinas
    • ai

    Levinas's ethics of the face confronted with GAN-generated faces — what the perfect idol reveals, harvests, and cannot counterfeit.

  • Old Light

    • philosophy
    • perception

    On the mental map, starlight, mediated catastrophe, and why we never quite live in the present.

  • The Fire of the Mind

    • philosophy

    Global warming as Teilhard's biosphere-to-noosphere threshold — and why the threshold is responsibility, not awareness.

  • The Lure

    • philosophy
    • psychoanalysis

    On the anglerfish's lure and Icarus — being drawn toward something with no reason to be drawn, and toward the thing that undoes you.

  • The Madman

    • philosophy
    • nietzsche

    Nietzsche's "God is dead" was a warning, not a demolition — and we are making the same misreading with Foucault.

  • The Refusal of Time

    • philosophy
    • psychoanalysis

    Someone wrongs you—a friend, a colleague, a person you loved.

  • The Scene Before the Subject

    • philosophy
    • psychoanalysis

    I once heard a philosopher argue that there could be no phenomenology of the infant, and the argument was not foolish.

  • The Tell

    • ai
    • writing

    A 2018 note that machines could catch the writing of smarter machines — and how the tell vanished, taking the faith that the artificial betrays itself to scrutiny with it.

  • What Shows Through

    • philosophy
    • psychoanalysis
    • lacan

    A man with schizophrenia once said that the films he cannot watch are the ones that break the fourth wall.