Category: Articles

  • Intestinal Catastrophism

    Intestinal Catastrophism

    When the drugs that made you sick are the drugs that make you better You, or someone you know probably has problems with their digestive tract. Not to get too personal about it (we’re friends, right?), but pretty much everyone these days either has GERD, IBS, bloating or some other combination of symptoms that is…

  • Am I Having A Good Day?

    Am I Having A Good Day?

    Lately, I feel like I’ve been consumed with a single question, one that works its way into the different cracks and fissures in my life. That is, am I having a good day? This question seems to confront me constantly, and while it’s almost certainly a thorny externality of my prolonged unemployment, I still can’t…

  • May chaos take the world!

    May chaos take the world!

    Deleuze, Guattari and Elden Ring I don’t think it’s unfair to say that Fromsoftware are on a generational run of form currently. The Dark Souls series was an incredible triumph of vision, that was hugely successful despite its “difficult” mechanics and labyrinthine story. Bloodborne topped all of those, and to me is the best game…

  • Diagnosing Lore-Brain

    Diagnosing Lore-Brain

    I’m sorry, its terminal We live in an era of massive self referentiality, of things looping back on themselves over and over and over. This is, to my mind, destabilizing and upsetting in a way most people aren’t totally equipped to think about or explain. There is a sense of an ever-closing wall of possible…

  • Review of Prometheus’s Remorse by Peter Sloterdijk

    Review of Prometheus’s Remorse by Peter Sloterdijk

    Prometheus’s Remorse: From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson (Semiotext by Peter Sloterdijk My rating: 1 of 5 stars I was about halfway into the book when I realized Sloterdijk is kind of a hack. His main thesis is basically Marxism, with a focus on fire as a metaphor. From this he tries to…

  • A great month(?) of music

    A great month(?) of music

    My appreciation for music has its own peculiar cycles, some weeks I am obsessed with it, and others I find myself abjuring it in favour of other media like podcasts or background video essays. Sometimes though, I don’t really get to make that choice, as there is a deluge of excellent music releases back to…