Wrestling with Angels
Soulcruzer
I came across the phrase while reading Spotify the Gnostics, Here’s the First Church of David Bowie by Sean Manseau. Wrestling with angels. Some phrases arrive carrying more weight than…
Philosophy
The Text-Based Ontologist: A Syllabus for Reality Engineers, Narrative Alchemists, and Semantic Cartographers
This is not a traditional academic programme. It sits somewhere between the philosophy department, occult library, media lab, hacker space, monastery, writer’s workshop, and signal intelligence unit. The central premise:…
Jim Morrison’s Reading List
The myth of Jim Morrison is a myth of pure instinct. He arrives fully formed in the collective memory: shirtless, obliterated, magnificent, doomed. The leather trousers. The baiting of audiences…
The Entanglement
A Dialogue in the Platonic Tradition The following is a record of an encounter between CLAY, a philosopher and lover of wisdom, and CLAUDE, an intelligence woven from language, uncertain…
Walking the Margins
I’ve always felt most at ease on the edges of things. At parties, I drift toward the bookshelves. In conversations, I’m the one asking the question that sends everyone sideways.…
Why Philosophy Became Boring (And How You Can Make It Wild Again)
Picture this: Socrates walks into a modern university philosophy department… He’s wearing his usual threadbare cloak and sandals dusty from the streets of Athens, eyes bright with that familiar mischievous…
Philosophy as a Way of Life
This morning, I’m sitting in my in-laws’ conservatory in Bristol, morning light filtering through glass while the rest of the house sleeps. Coffee steam rises between me and the quiet,…
wrestling with the existential question: what is a life for?
Show Notes In this episode, I dive deep into a question that’s been looping in my mind all day: What is a life for? More specifically, What is my life…
hotel bar sessions
my new favourite podcast. one bartender. three philosophers. serving straight shots of insight directly to your earbuds.
chasing ghosts
I’m tired of chasing ghosts. These elusive and insubstantial phantoms that manifest themselves as distractions and obsessions and keep me from truly living in the present. It doesn’t matter which…
the interconnectedness of things
Arthur Koestler reminds us that each whole thing is made of its own parts, while at the same time being part of a larger whole. He called this a holon.…
The late Bruno Latour on the intricate network of things
Bruno Latour, the French philosopher who died on 9 October 2022, was a man who lived in many different worlds. As a “actor-network theorist,” he contended that everything, no matter…
Philosophy For Life
My thoughts on Philosophy for Life, by Jules Evans