Caste Cosiety
There’s just one continuum from the neural to the social. That’s just for starters: give it time and the continuum will go all the way from cells to continents. Cosiety zindabad!
Tag Metaphysics
The World of Caste
Can we say something new about caste as a system? How has it changed as a result of being fully absorbed within the capitalist system?
The Weltist, or why the World comes First
We take worlds for granted. Science reduces them; literature shrinks them and philosophy ignores them. And yet, without the world we would be nothing. The weltist returns to the world from the universe. They are more worm than eagle.
Tangle time
Why stick to linear arguments thick with text? Can we make sense of the world by skipping from word to song to figure? Why not connect the new when the old world is collapsing of its own contradictions?
The Demon of Doubt, or an exercise in fiction science.
Every era of quickening change has its existential worries, when solid ground becomes quicksand. Here I use 'demons' to probe the shifting ground of knowledge.
The Collector of Dystopias
Photographer: Pawel Janiak | Source: Unsplash Star Wars and Scotch Tape I am a technophile; always was and always will be. It doesn’t prevent me from agreeing with Gandhi’s critique of technological modernity. Instead, we can have fun asking such questions as:…
The Tyranny of Experience
Photographer: v2osk | Source: Unsplash There’s no greater tyranny in my world than that of experience, by which I mean the ever more sophisticated versions of the claim “seeing is believing.” We are skeptical by nature, demanding evidence and proof and…
Street Metaphysics
What is reality? We seem to be unable to address that question directly. We can only engage with reality via scientific, religious and artistic filters. So what is reality: it is what the scientists discover in their labs, or what…