Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) is something new. A determined, coherent attempt to take what functions for our culture as a sacred object, a text that demands reverence in virtue of its sheer authority, and to treat it instead as material, as occasion, the way a text becomes someone’s text, someone’s expression in the form of…
Before learning about the philosophical grounding of John Cage’s 4’33 minutes of ‘silence’, i recalled my base, almost thoughtless, quasi-physiological, naïve, reactions. I asked myself: How far this game is allowed to proceed, and how many players are allowed at the table? To elaborate: What about full 2-3 hours “Concerts of Silence,” with each piece…
Nothing happens without a reason. This is Leibniz’s principle of sufficient reason (PSR). According to this principle, every event in the universe is metaphysically bound to every other by some rational tie, generally understood as a cause. Causality acts as the unifying force of the universe. Now, “cause” means, in its broadest sense, reason and…