Category: Articles

  • 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…

  • Mission Statement

    Mission Statement

    What are we doing here? A while ago, I made a substack account because I wanted to motivate myself to write more, and to share that writing with more people. I did a little bit of writing on it, and am mostly pleased with what I made. It was a good spread of different things,…

  • Is the internet dead? Are we?

    Is the internet dead? Are we?

    So you can stop asking me what my thesis is about The overwhelming impression that you get when speaking to people about their experience of using the internet is as an almost malign, parasitic force in their lives. When talking to my students about whether or not the internet was making us stupider, or more…