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Dune Part 2 and the Moral Messiah
Sand carrying spice blows over the surface of Arrakis. This little gas regulates the entirety of the known universe and soon it will be...
Dylan Früh
Mar 17, 20244 min read
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Where No Man Has Gone Before: the purpose of speculative fixion
There is a tendency in the intersecting realms of the academic and literary to discount genre fixion and its subsidiaries as a debased...
Dylan Früh
Feb 11, 20244 min read
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Language as a prison
There is an idea in semantic linguistics, and indeed shared by all logical and rhetorical fields, called ‘presupposition’. It means...
Dylan Früh
Feb 5, 20243 min read
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Ethics as Language Enframement
Wittgenstein once posited a famous thought experiment which involved each communicator in a system, in this case humans using language,...
Dylan Früh
Jan 28, 20245 min read
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Art: the process
Art is a famously nebulous word. Both philosophers, politicians, and priests have tried (and to an extent) failed to do so. It’s a...
Dylan Früh
Jan 20, 20244 min read
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In praise of survival horror
Last year, one of gaming’s (that is video games) oldest genres saw a revival. My two favourite games of the year, the RE4 Remake and Alan...
Dylan Früh
Jan 11, 202416 min read
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Synthetic Philosophy
All philosophy is synthetic philosophy. That is, it contains within itself the entire history of philosophy and all possible potentials....
Dylan Früh
Jan 2, 20243 min read
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Modern Paganism: ritual and tradition
Merry Christmas, first of all. (See how I’ve started with a perfect example). In the Neu, we like to think of ourselves as liberated,...
Dylan Früh
Dec 25, 20236 min read
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Time After Time: mechanical-linear enframement and modal temporality
Time is in boundless supply as the driving force for all mechanical axions. Time allows for axion and everything else, yet at the same...
Dylan Früh
Dec 21, 20235 min read
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Pan-mechanism and Cybernetic Desire Produxion
You are a machine… It’s not a reduxion nor condemnation; it’s only a statement aligned with the writings of Guattari and Deleuze. You,...
Dylan Früh
Dec 13, 20238 min read
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Soundtrack to the Neu: Mark Fisher and Vaporwave
The time is out of joint It’s amazing how one line from a play written 400 years ago manages to perfectly encapsulate the landscape of...
Dylan Früh
Dec 6, 20236 min read
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German: the language of philosophy and fascism
There is a popular conception that German is a decidedly harsh language, characterised by its reliance on glottal tones and frequent...
Dylan Früh
Nov 26, 20235 min read
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Lined With Corbomite: the fragile self
From any sensible practical or material standpoint there is no self, only the existence of the perception of the self. However, this is...
Dylan Früh
Nov 19, 20237 min read
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On the nature of ghosts
Haunt; Etymology: Middle English (in the sense ‘frequent (a place’)): from Old French hanter, of Germanic origin; distantly related to...
Dylan Früh
Nov 9, 20235 min read
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Character Creation: or the modern poiesis
Ich bin ein Zeittier . A creature-of-the-times. Though I may privately long to have been thrown into this world under different...
Dylan Früh
Oct 29, 20235 min read
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