Hi, I’m Nelson.
I build things and write about them.
Recent Writing
Real Children's stories and the love that makes you real — the Velveteen Rabbit, the fox, and Winnicott.
The Face That Does Not Exist Levinas's ethics of the face confronted with GAN-generated faces — what the perfect idol reveals, harvests, and cannot counterfeit.
Old Light On the mental map, starlight, mediated catastrophe, and why we never quite live in the present.
The Fire of the Mind Global warming as Teilhard's biosphere-to-noosphere threshold — and why the threshold is responsibility, not awareness.
The Lure On the anglerfish's lure and Icarus — being drawn toward something with no reason to be drawn, and toward the thing that undoes you.