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Prometheanism and Rationalism
Here is the video for my talk ‘Prometheanism and Rationalism’, which was given at Goldsmiths courtesy of Simon O’Sullivan and the Visual Cultures department in May. The same talk was given the previous...
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Figure/Ground Interview
This is a short post to announce that I’ve been interviewed by Laureano Ralon for Figure/Ground. The questions I was asked cover a really wide range of topics and have forced me to revisit a number of...
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Towards Computational Kantianism
The video of my talk on Computational Kantianism from the #Accelerate General Intellect event organised by Tony Yanick and the New Centre for Research and Practice at the Pratt Institute in NYC is...
View ArticleTranscendental Blues
Content Notes: Suicide (§0-1), Mental Health (§*), Neuroscience (§2, §4), Logic (§3.2), Computer Science (§4), Rhetoric (§*). PDF. 0. That Fucking Dog When I found out Mark Fisher had finally been...
View ArticleMore Transcendental, More Blues
It’s Christmas Eve, I’ve got a glass of whiskey, and I’ve finished prepping for cooking Christmas dinner tomorrow. I wrote Transcendental Blues in a bit of a fever over the last week. I failed to make...
View ArticleOn Being Read
It never fails to surprise me when someone has read my work. It’s always a pleasant surprise, and I take more pleasure in it the more I can see someone has connected with me, recognised me, and seen...
View ArticleToy Philosophy
Reza Negarestani has started a new blog, which I will encourage everyone to read. Reza is a unique and uniquely powerful thinker, and I cannot recommend his work highly enough. I suggest going and...
View ArticleOn Neorationalism
So, the word ‘neorationalism’ is not one I coined, but it’s consistently been used to describe the work of Ray Brassier, Reza Negarestani, and myself, along with numerous fellow travellers. It’s not...
View ArticleOftA: So, Accelerationism, what’s all that about?
Now that I’m trying to rekindle the blog, I’ve realised that I should probably consolidate some bits of writing that I’ve done elsewhere. I started a tumblr several years ago for lighter writing about...
View ArticleOftA: Wolfendale’s Troll
I’m especially proud of this one. Definition: a hypothetical hyper-intelligent future AI capable of resurrecting copies of people from the past for its own entertainment (and theirs) in a fantastically...
View ArticleOftA: Cognitive Economics and the Functional Theory of Stress
The topic of cognitive economics is something I haven’t explicitly revisited in writing, though I think about it quite a bit, and have discussed aspects of it in recent talks. The idea of the attention...
View ArticleOftA: A Short Comment on the Social Pathologies of Art
I’ve done quite a lot of work on aesthetics and philosophy of art over the last few years, though as usual, not much of it has been written up and published anywhere of note. This piece is another...
View ArticleOftA: Science, Metaphysics, and the A Priori / A Posteriori Distinction
If there’s one topic that I’ve probably done more work on than anything else, it’s what you might call the methodology of metaphysics. My PhD thesis attempted to extract insights regarding what...
View ArticleSurvival, Technology, and Catastrophic Meatsack Failure
Another year, another apology for a prolonged break. After a brief upsurge in activity last year following Transcendental Blues, I was somehow stricken by mysterious nerve damage in my upper neck. The...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Game?
Once more, my hopes of posting more here were dashed by illness. Since the last time I posted I had to go through another extended process of changing pain medication, side effects, withdrawal, and...
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The Owl of Minerva Tweets at Dusk
It seems that I never feel so old as when I try to use twitter. I’ll be turning thirty-four on Tuesday, but returning to twitter after the better part of a year makes me feel like a man out of time,...
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TfE: Information and Freedom
So, I switched to the official twitter app, and then once more failed to understand how it handles threading: my mistake was assuming that ‘add tweet’ meant ‘add tweet to thread‘ in this context....
View ArticleTfE: Rethinking Academic Publishing
Here’s another twitter thread from a few days ago, offering some tentative suggestions for reforming bits of academia that are unquestionably broken. I didn’t get much feedback from my twitter...
View ArticleTfE: Philosophy and Theory
So far, I’ve tried importing thoughts from Twitter. Today, I’d like to import some thoughts from Facebook, and to even import some that are not my own! I have a habit of writing massive comments on FB,...
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TfE: Zero-Sum Politics and Moral Logic
Here’s another Facebook interaction that grew into something interesting, initiated in response to an observation by the incomparable Mark Lance: I think that this is an interesting observation that...
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