Sitemap - 2023 - living together, somehow

In conversation with Chris Hobson

How ressentiment transpirals through enactments

Ressentiment as gas attack

The meaning grinder

In Conversation with Laleh Khalili

"it is a black hole; it absorbs energy and personality and then re-presents it as spectacle" (We Need to Talk about Internetz)

That summer feeling: Derna in autumn, Melbourne in spring

Dopamine Fantasies of our Land of Cockaigne

In conversation with Pete Chambers, August 2023

Tells us about your piles, stacks of books, sets of thoughts, sub- and suprastack

Unboxing the amateur unboxer

on returning... ....to 2023

'summery' dismissal (and a summary of some summer reading, for Australian winter too)

From the cosmic plenitude of entropy and negentropy to just-in-time.... disintegration?

capitalism's happiness? (psycho-premises, Qu'est-ce que c'est?)

What did we catch during the pandemic, and how are we to catch what we've caught?

Living together, somehow

Living Together, Somehow (the past six months)

‘Give us this day our daily spurts’/Rude Goldberg Machines (fantasy is no coincidence, part three of three)

Click here to discover your fantasy and fill hole again (fantasy is no coincidence, two of three)

Animating individual fantasies, deadening systemic realities (fantasy is no coincidence, part one of three)

Things that make you go HMM

'What Wotan Wants': how to make a – ? – we won't know is deadly, or fun, or janky, but probably exploitative and stupid, in five easy recursions

Friday follow up, PC on PC

Noticing VaporSpace in Melbourne's 2023 'post pandemic' CBD

Opening the Rift: functional integration *as* the divorce between working and living

Bureaucracy is Darkness, from Pascal to Gorz

Dolphins into the dark, or; why we – perhaps – cease to understand the world... ...more than ever? (Friday fragments)

The ‘dark figures’: of AI, absent students, and safe playgrounds (in a de-bounded world)

Involutions or meritocracy, or: the death of competitive individualism by Clippy?

Involutions, excrescences, systemic dynamics

The Immaterial, aka "the order was delivere4d"

Involutions (and Ledgers and Demons)

Involutions and Excrescences

Notes on an unhappy age without philosophy

Spectres of New Materialism (& the world on fire)

Joyridden