Index · 9 essays

Essays

Writing away from the keyboard — on perception, memory, time, and mind. Where the research background shows up in a different register.

  • 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.

  • The Madman

    Nietzsche's "God is dead" was a warning, not a demolition — and we are making the same misreading with Foucault.

  • The Refusal of Time

  • The Scene Before the Subject

  • What Shows Through

    Lacan's three registers are laid down one over another — and you learn what each one was doing by watching it fail.