Sections I-III Hegel tells us in Elements of the Philosophy of Right that he has ‘fully developed the nature of speculative knowledge in [his] Science of Logic,’ which is to say he has different plans for this book.¹ He tells us ‘[this work] is based on the logical spirit. It…

Most of us are fooled, but we perhaps speak too monolithically if we claim we are always fooled. Noam Comisky notes that though markets claim to operate according to rationality and thus efficiency, the entire advertisement industry exists to persuade people into making irrational choices. …

An Eight Part Series The internet currently faces a significant problem: the quality of the high majority of the information is difficult to determine. This, in turn, makes it very difficult to use the internet to establish a new community and or “commons.” As will be explored, the technology of…

If art should avoid being political, art might be obligated to do the impossible. Can art avoid being political? There seems to be a ditch on either side of the road, both in an art that denies it is political and in art that “overly” embraces its political role. During…

Considering a New Strange Form of Us It is difficult to think systems, a radical challenge to consider subjects, and Cadell Last has decided to think both. Systems shape subjects though, as subjects change systems, and that means the topic is active and changing. To make matters more complex, Cadell…

On differences between collectives forming to destroy “givens” and collectives forming because of “givens.” Perhaps all collectives end similar in consequence, but they are not identical in origin. The French Revolution and Nazism both entailed groups and crowds, but while the French Revolution deconstructed societal norms, Nazism became a societal…

The irony of “time saving technology,” counterfeit of “intrinsic motivation,” and a “grind arms race” with AI. Javier Rivera recently discussed “grind culture” and the trouble with a mode of life that lives as if “we just got to get through it.” Our discussion, “The Net (36),” focused on the…

Hegel is the business of a conditioning of “what is” more than a journey for something elsewhere — though of course the descriptions can overlap. We do not so much search in Hegel, or if we do it is like the line of a circle looking for where it connects…

The Enlightenment deconstructs “nonrationality,” but might that be a good thing? ‘Alasdair MacIntyre famously observed, every notable attempt since the Enlightenment to construct a rational framework for an objective morality has been built out of nonrational premises, premises that any rational person may reasonably deny.’¹ This is why Enlightenment thinking…