*adapted from my review of Late Night With the Devil (2023) What is horror? Why is it important? I've already defended science fixion on...

Sand carrying spice blows over the surface of Arrakis. This little gas regulates the entirety of the known universe and soon it will be...

Under heaven, all know beauty as beauty, thus is the ugly. All know good to be good, thus is the-shadow-of-good. Being and being-without...

Spoilers As Dostoevskij isn't on Letterboxd (reasonable considering its status as technically a mini-series and not a film), I'm forced...

There is a tendency in the intersecting realms of the academic and literary to discount genre fixion and its subsidiaries as a debased...

There is an idea in semantic linguistics, and indeed shared by all logical and rhetorical fields, called ‘presupposition’. It means...

Wittgenstein once posited a famous thought experiment which involved each communicator in a system, in this case humans using language,...

Art is a famously nebulous word. Both philosophers, politicians, and priests have tried (and to an extent) failed to do so. It’s a...

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...

All philosophy is synthetic philosophy. That is, it contains within itself the entire history of philosophy and all possible potentials....

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,...

Time is in boundless supply as the driving force for all mechanical axions. Time allows for axion and everything else, yet at the same...

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,...

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...

There is a popular conception that German is a decidedly harsh language, characterised by its reliance on glottal tones and frequent...

From any sensible practical or material standpoint there is no self, only the existence of the perception of the self. However, this is...

Haunt; Etymology: Middle English (in the sense ‘frequent (a place’)): from Old French hanter, of Germanic origin; distantly related to...

******The following is my first attempt at translation. I will periodically update this page as I comb through Laozi. This is a first...

Ich bin ein Zeittier . A creature-of-the-times. Though I may privately long to have been thrown into this world under different...

23 April 2022 Clipped gardenias, grilled steaks, kicked-up dirt, sweaty shirts tearing with the elapse of the day, strange and sudden...