Month: January 2020

• January 24, 2020

  Care, Let’s Not Forget, Is Rhythmic

  Care, let’s not forget, is rhythmic. Tell me that you care about me in a way that’s not in tune or in step somehow with (call it) the way of things, and it falls, oh does it fall, on deaf ears. I don’t quite believe cuz it doesn’t quite signify. Whereas show me care so…
• January 23, 2020

  A Brief Critique Of Tech Values

  Often enough it’s said that technology is nothing but a tool. As such, it has no value built into it. Hence, it’s up to us whether and how we use the tool. This is a version of the fact/value split, and it’s plainly wrong. According to this view, technology supplies us with facts and humans…
• January 22, 2020

  Philosophy Will Never Be Popular

  1. Recent stories about philosophy in Silicon Valley imply that philosophy is becoming more popular. The mainstream media too implies that philosophy ought to be popular. Yet, I want to show, it can never be. 2. Let it be said at the outset that philosophy, insofar as it is the loving pursuit of living a…
• January 21, 2020

  And We Last Men Are Stuck Here In Unreality; Or, How We Forgot How To Celebrate

  Everything is a matter of course. This should be shocking to us but it isn’t. No holiday is a holy day. Labor Day, Martin Luther King Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, all sanctioned by the state, are all purely days off and, as such, are nothing but business as usual draped in a slightly different garb. We…
• January 20, 2020

  Psychotechnologies of Self-transformation Talk: YouTube Video

  My IHMC talk is now up on YouTube. You can listen to it here: