The Archive
Ethics
Ubuntu and the Limits of the Isolated Self — a non-Western counterpoint to individualism.
Evil Doesn't Announce Itself — Arendt's banality of evil and algorithmic moderation.
The Math You're Not Allowed to Do — Omelas and the supply chains no one looks at.
The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number — utilitarian tech ethics vs. Rawls's veil of ignorance.
Meaning & Mortality
The Case for Optimizing Everything — productivity culture, steelmanned via Kierkegaard's despair.
History of Ideas
What Wollstonecraft Would Ask the Manosphere — the 18th-century case against 'natural' roles.
Mind & Knowledge
The Numbered Self — Zamyatin's We and the quantified life.
Shadows on the Wall, Rebuilt — Plato's cave and the engineered feed.
More Real Than Real — Baudrillard's simulacra and AI-generated media.
The Ship That Was Never the Same Twice — identity through replacement, from Athens to your fifth bio.
Science & Technology
The Spectacle Doesn't Need a Stage — Debord's spectacle and influencer culture.
Power & Politics
The Volume Was the Argument — Orwell imagined a state that didn't need to lie convincingly, only constantly.
The Cage You'd Choose — La Boétie on voluntary servitude, and the cage that advertises itself as liberation.
Two Ways to Read a Panopticon — Bentham built the prison; Foucault noticed you lived in it.
Identity & Self
The Gaze That Colonizes — Fanon on identity formed under the eyes of others.
Just Be Yourself — authenticity culture, and Judith Butler on performed selves.
Flourishing
Attention Is the Rarest Form of Generosity — Simone Weil on attention as a moral act, not a resource.
The Tyranny of 'You Can' — Byung-Chul Han on exhaustion from unlimited possibility.