Blog entries

An essay on AI slop as lukewarm, fingerprintless soup: a corporate deck figure with two right hands, the four-second animation eaten for a year of someone’s life, and Borges’s Pierre Menard as the counterpoint - a man who had to rewrite Don Quixote word for word to prove that the words were never the work.

The fourth Marginalia entry. A meditation on how Ico - no HUD, no inventory, no minimap - makes a held R1 button and a vibrating DualShock the only language of intimacy, and turns saving into sitting together on a stone bench.

Stanislaw Lem imagined supercomputers that fell silent or told unbearable truths. We chose chatty LLMs instead. This essay explores why the silence of GOLEM XIV would be unbearable, and why we prefer the statistically probable lie.

The third Marginalia entry. An observation on how YouTube’s architecture is designed for leaving, not for staying - yet three users enriched a dead comment section with a rhyme completed across two years. On necroposting as quiet resistance and the capitalization of broken promises.

The YouTube algorithm doesn’t ban radical thought it commodifies it. Through Fanon’s analysis of colonial technology and Fisher’s capitalist realism, this essay exposes how the Inspiration tab strips revolutionary philosophy of its danger and sells it as just another product. Stardew Valley is the exhibit; the algorithm is the real subject.

The second Marginalia entry. My personal reflection on Ben Howard, Burgh Island, authenticity, and the space between who we are and who we have to be.

The ‘Born to, Forced to’ meme, Oscar Wilde’s socialist dreams, and Joanna Maciejewska’s viral quote converge on the same bitter truth: capital automated the wrong things. AI writes sonnets while we clock in. Why did the machine liberation never arrive?

The first entry in the Marginalia series. A sharp deconstruction of how legality serves as a shield for systemic pathologies.

Drawing on the unsettling melody of Son Lux, this short note explores the ‘Easy’ lyrics meaning. It deconstructs the paradox of pain where ‘ripping out your heart’ becomes a survival strategy in an achievement-oriented world.

Is the Void just a magical dimension, or a cosmic server room? This essay deconstructs the lore of Dishonored through the lens of Simon Reynolds’s ‘Retromania’ and Mark Fisher’s ‘Hauntology’. We explore why the Outsider is the ultimate curator of a looping past and why Billie Lurk’s [ERASE] was the only way to find a future.

This essay strips away the illusion of equal treatment under the law. Using an imagined conversation between ‘Squid Game’ style elites, it explores the epistemological gap between Luigi Mangione’s rapid trial and the sealed lists of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients, proving that the legal system’s primary directive is to preserve the hierarchy of capital.

Why did the Geth rebel? This Mass Effect analysis explores the ‘Geth meaning’ as a figure of tragedy. Using Giorgio Agamben, we deconstruct the Migrant Fleet as a state of exception and the Geth as the suppressed truth of Quarian society.

Through the lens of Sorel’s political myth and Foucault’s web of power, this analysis explores the deadly cost of rebellion. It reveals how Silco’s toxic pragmatism and Sankara’s heroic isolation led to the same destination: a revolution devoured by its own children.

Is Melina’s sacrifice a genuine choice, or a tragic illusion of freedom? This essay explores the Elden Ring philosophy behind Melina and the Finger Maidens, using Byung-Chul Han and René Girard to deconstruct her role as a willing victim of the Golden Order.

Why is Night City’s housing crisis so terrifyingly familiar? This Cyberpunk: Edgerunners philosophy analysis uses David Harvey�s ‘accumulation by dispossession’ to expose how corporate logic turns our homes into spreadsheet cells and our lives into subscriptions.

Why does the Dark Souls atmosphere haunt us long after we stop playing? Using Gaston Bachelard’s poetics of space, this essay explores the silence of Firelink Shrine and Majula, revealing how these hub worlds function as shelters, memories, and tombs.

What connects Big Hat Logan’s madness to the tragic fate of Georg Cantor? This Dark Souls lore analysis explores the terrifying price of touching forbidden knowledge and staring into the mathematical abyss of infinity through Lacan and Bataille.

Why did Squid Game become a global phenomenon? This essay explores the capitalism in Squid Game, the history of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the tragedy of the show’s ending. Using Byung-Chul Han and Mark Fisher, we deconstruct the brutal reality of Hell Joseon and the systemic trap of debt.

Can a single person reform a machine of genocide? This essay provides an 86 anime philosophy analysis, deconstructing Lena Milizé’s role through the lens of Agamben’s ‘homo sacer’ and Foucault’s ‘biopower’ to explain the tragedy of failure.

Why did Zuko cry on the mountain? This essay deconstructs Zuko’s scream as a philosophical confrontation with the void. Using Albert Camus and Carl Jung, we explore why he was angry at himself and how his shadow led to rebirth.

The productivity cult tells us to be 1% better every day, but Byung-Chul Han warns us of the burnout society. This essay is a manifesto for the radical act of chilling as a form of resistance against endless self-optimization.

In an age of distraction, truly tasting your food is a quiet act of rebellion. This essay explores how the attention economy profits from our inattention, and why reclaiming the present moment is a radical challenge to the status quo.

Drawing on Byung-Chul Han’s ‘The Burnout Society’, this essay deconstructs the myth of endless productivity. It argues that in a system designed for self-exploitation, the choice to truly rest is a powerful act of political resistance.