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The Levelling of Being: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Benjamin, and the Question of Algorithmic Modernity

In which I explore how Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin illuminate the consequences of technology, attention fragmentation in an age of algorithmically mediated existence.

Overlap Without Subsumption: A Conceptual Account of the Relationship Between Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge

What is the relationship between scientific and Indigenous knowledge? I argue for a critical, but positive account of the relationship between the two and identify the category error at it's core.

Out of Breath: Passivity, Pain, and Involuntary Ecstasy in Teresa of Avila

How Teresa distinguishes mystical rapture from effortful devotion, tracing the arrow's wound through pleasure, pain, and total, involuntary absorption.

Mike Mentzer: "Philosophy of Iron: Mastery, Reason and Mind"

Mike Menzter on why bigger muscles cannot deliver the self-esteem you're chasing—and what Plato, Aristotle, and a rational philosophy of life actually require.

#5 - Lyle McDonald on the Hypertrophy Science Crisis

Has evidence-based fitness lost its way? Lyle McDonald and I discuss when science becomes marketing

Practising Christianity: A Comparative Odyssey

"Is it possible to be a Christian in the sense described by the New Testament writers?" Soren Kierkegaard and Sergei Bulgakov on the early church

#4 - Tartaria, Thunderless Lightning, and Other Completely Normal Topics

Three men, a campfire, and an attempt to reconstruct reality from frequencies, scripture, architecture, and intuition. A conversation on forgotten empires, sacred geometry, and hidden worlds.

"The Violent Take It by Force?" A Response to Matt Fradd's Terrifying Rumination

On Matt Fradd's selective patristics, a misappropriated Origen, non-sequiturs, and a God Whose Love admits defeat.

The Divided Mind: A Psychological Tale of Two Sauls, and Evagrius of the Desert

I examine how Hebrew, Greek and Christian philosophical-theological traditions functioned as legitimate literary psychologies that anticipated later concerns in cognitive psychology

Are Large Language Models intelligent? A dissection of A.I's candidacy for Human Rights.

Why granting rights to LLM's reveals more about our confusions than AI's capacities