An essay on Adorno, Spotify Wrapped, and the spiritual violence of discovering your personality is just one song replayed 847 times
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An essay on Jacques Derrida, the fear of recorded permanence, and screaming into the void.
An Essay on forgetting vehicles, remembering markets, and losing existential battles to livestock.
An essay on Walter Benjamin, the illusion of digital ownership, and the tragedy of the crooked masterpiece
An essay on Diogenes the Cynic, the delusion of the blue circle, and the sheer humiliation of acting like a golden retriever.
An essay on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Social Contract, and the unbearable weight of the 'left the group' notification
An essay on Søren Kierkegaard, the abyss of the infinite scroll, and the aesthetic safety blanket of the 00s sitcom
An essay on Henri Bergson, the arrogance of the internal clock, and why I am always sweating in my winter coat
An essay on Jeremy Bentham, the hedonistic calculus, and why holding the door is actually a net-negative for society
On conversational narcissists, Martin Buber, party monologues, and the philosophy of refusing to listen
An essay on Byung-Chul Han, the violence of a beige trench coat, and why my life refuses to be a capsule
An essay on Sianne Ngai’s 'Gimmick', the betrayal of textures, and a coffee table that is fundamentally sawdust
An essay on the monkey mind, Blaise Pascal’s wager, and the impossibility of finding nirvana on a flattened cushion
An essay on the pathetic fallacy, Susan Sontag’s silence, and the emotional manipulation of a Fiddle Leaf Fig
On browser tabs, borrowed memory, and the relief of forgetting.
An Inquiry Into Unread Literature
A Domestic Case Study in Technological Obedience
An essay on storage, sentimentality, and preparing for nothing in particular
Interpreting Meaning in Minimal and Incomplete Messages
An essay on affordance, domestic spaces, and behavioral fatigue
How Algorithms, Screens, and Saving Images Redefine Cultural Ownership
Why Modern Language Sounds Profound but Says Very Little