If the world of forms is illusory, where does it fall? Or rather: where is it real? It is real only affect, that is, as an illusion. What, then, remains? What, in other words, remains in the ruin of the stabilizing impression of meaning and existence, the counterpart to phenomena revealed as illusion? Perhaps the transcendentalist was correct that the noumena cannot be discovered, though only because it is empty, a creation built on the foundation of a prejudice against the fact that nothing exists beyond the limit.

Note: This is technically the second part of a series, here is the first. The Camel takes the burdens of existence on itself proudly, Seeking solitude in the desert. There it grows hungry and disdainful. A Lion is born out of this hunger for No-saying, Viciously attacking everything which taints…

Old Permanently Unfinished Essay on Gothic Materialism Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, in developing their transcendental materialism, made way for this cybernetic and antihumanist materialism. Mark Fisher, writer of “Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction’’, and main source of this essay, takes after Deleuze-Guattari as well as Spinoza in…

This is only a rough sketch and not the essay I want to write on this. This is a formulation of a possible henological theory of forces. 1) Reality is made up of forces (or will) 1a) Forces only have effects on other forces, and all forces can affect each…

Expenditure and Dance One must become nothing, Again and again, Lost in the flames. The rational mind is fine-tuned, engineered to maximize production. A rational man has the content of experience filtered through the questions “how can this make me money? How can I get more?” Rationality is a construction…

Notes on 3 Dialogues This is a collection of notes on three middle Platonic dialogues (Protagoras, Gorgias, and Cratylus). It is not a “pure” commentary on Plato, and I don’t believe such a thing exists. I am a Nietzschean, and that will inevitably appear in how I understand and engage…

The Camel, The Lion, and The Child The Camel takes the burdens of existence on itself proudly, Seeking solitude in the desert. There it grows hungry and disdainful. A Lion is born out of this hunger for No-saying. Viciously attacking everything which taints the air with denial. Out of this…

Some time ago I posted my first real attempt at writing something theory related called On The Inescapability of Capital. Months later, this problem hasn’t left my thoughts, and — to put it bluntly — I feel my response to it was insufficient at best. …

A Precarious World Everyone is terrified. Loud sounds remind us of bombs and every price increase comes with the deep feeling of a looming crisis. It is as if we’ve situated ourselves on a balloon that will inevitably grow to its explosive limit. We are at the limit. We can…