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active: 2026-02-24 → 2026-07-07

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The New Heresy: Baudrillard and the Taboo of Reality

Introduction — When Questioning Becomes Transgression

Apr 19, 2026 · 3 min read · 80 claps #baudrillard #heresy #taboo

The New Heresy: Baudrillard and the Taboo of Reality

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Diachrony Misplaced: On Weber’s Assimilation of Saussure to Peirce

Introduction: A Conceptual Transplant

Feb 24, 2026 · 4 min read · 50 claps #samuel-weber #saussure #peirce

Diachrony Misplaced: On Weber’s Assimilation of Saussure to Peirce

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Art History I: Primitive Art and the Museum

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May 29, 2026 · 4 min read · 50 claps #bayeux-tapestry #african-masks #baudrillard

Art History I: Primitive Art and the Museum

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The Blind Spot of the Sovereign Individual: Nietzsche and Derrida on the Limits of Self-Mastery

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May 31, 2026 · 6 min read · 1 claps #jacques-derrida #friedrich-nietzsche

The Blind Spot of the Sovereign Individual: Nietzsche and Derrida on the Limits of Self-Mastery

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Why Walter Benjamin Thought Poets Make the Best Translators

Yet any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something…

Jun 28, 2026 · 5 min read · 1 claps #walter-benjamin #translation #friedrich-hölderlin

Why Walter Benjamin Thought Poets Make the Best Translators

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Hölderlin and the Foreign: Why Walter Benjamin Thought Great Poets Make Better Translators

Thesis

Jun 25, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #friedrich-hölderlin #walter-benjamin #sophocles

Hölderlin and the Foreign: Why Walter Benjamin Thought Great Poets Make Better Translators

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Difference Without Regress: Saussure Against Zeno’s Paradox

The Allegation: Zeno in Geneva

Feb 28, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #zeno #saussure #joan-copjec

Difference Without Regress: Saussure Against Zeno’s Paradox

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Does One Need to Taste Cheese to Understand What It Means?

A Saussurean Response to Bertrand Russell

Jul 03, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #bertrand-russell #roman-jakobson #ferdinand-de-saussure

Does One Need to Taste Cheese to Understand What It Means?

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The Promising Animal: Memory, Forgetting, and the Fragility of Sovereignty in Nietzsche

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May 30, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #friedrich-nietzsche #morality #cartesian-subject

The Promising Animal: Memory, Forgetting, and the Fragility of Sovereignty in Nietzsche

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Difference and Opposition in Saussure: Understanding the Architecture of the Linguistic Sign

Difference and Opposition in Context

Feb 28, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #saussure #opposition #difference

Difference and Opposition in Saussure: Understanding the Architecture of the Linguistic Sign

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Can You Learn the Meaning of “Cheese” by Pointing? Translation as a Philosophical Experiment

Introduction

Jul 07, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #jonathan-culler #roman-jakobson #bertrand-russell

Can You Learn the Meaning of “Cheese” by Pointing? Translation as a Philosophical Experiment

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The Relief of the Guard: Derrida, Saussure, and What Survives in Translation

Thesis

Jun 10, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #hegel #aufhebung #derrida

The Relief of the Guard: Derrida, Saussure, and What Survives in Translation

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The Algorithmic Mirror: Baudrillard, Self-Production, and the Digital Subject

Thesis

May 20, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #jean-baudrillard #the-self #marx

The Algorithmic Mirror: Baudrillard, Self-Production, and the Digital Subject

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Writing at Degree Zero: The Impossible Dream of Neutral Language

Introduction — Is There Such a Thing as Colorless Writing?

Apr 25, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #barthes #camus #sartre

Writing at Degree Zero: The Impossible Dream of Neutral Language

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From Original to Series: Andy Warhol and the Industrialization of the Artwork

The Question of Origin

Mar 16, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #andy-warhol #walter-benjamin #industrial-revolution

From Original to Series: Andy Warhol and the Industrialization of the Artwork

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If Language Is Not Substance, What Does Translation Transfer? Saussure and Benjamin in Dialogue

“Übersetzung ist eine Form” (translation is a form) — Walter Benjamin, The Task of the Translator

Jun 20, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #walter-benjamin #ferdinand-de-saussure #translation

If Language Is Not Substance, What Does Translation Transfer? Saussure and Benjamin in Dialogue

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The Vanishing Origin: Simulation, Repetition, and the Circular Logic of Reality

Introduction

Mar 17, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #jean-baudrillard #andy-warhol #sherlock

The Vanishing Origin: Simulation, Repetition, and the Circular Logic of Reality

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In the Shadow of Marxist Concepts: Difference, Self-Reflexivity, and the Collapse of Universals

“Historical materialism, dialectics, modes of production, labor power — through these concepts Marxist theory has sought to shatter the…

May 21, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #self-reflexivity #baudrillard #nietzsche

In the Shadow of Marxist Concepts: Difference, Self-Reflexivity, and the Collapse of Universals

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Marx Against Marxism III: The Museum, Primitive Art, and the Virus of Production

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May 28, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #grundrisse #marx #baudrillard

Marx Against Marxism III: The Museum, Primitive Art, and the Virus of Production

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The Algorithmic Faust: Baudrillard, Khaby Lame, and the Digital Soul

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May 21, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #faust #goethe #baudrillard

The Algorithmic Faust: Baudrillard, Khaby Lame, and the Digital Soul

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Marx Against Marxism I: Labor as Historical Abstraction

“The conception of labor in this general form — as labor as such — is also immeasurably old. Nevertheless, when it is economically…

May 25, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #marx #grundrisse #baudrillard

Marx Against Marxism I: Labor as Historical Abstraction

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From the Machine of Lagado to ChatGPT: Descartes, Swift, Harris, and the Dream of Automating…

“Methinks I hear some objector, demanding with an air of pleasantry and ridicule: ‘Is there no speaking then without all this trouble? Do…

Jun 05, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #jonathan-swift #rené-descartes #roy-harris

From the Machine of Lagado to ChatGPT: Descartes, Swift, Harris, and the Dream of Automating…

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Art History III: The Invention of Artistic Progress

Thesis

May 31, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #kouros #contrapposto #art-history

Art History III: The Invention of Artistic Progress

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Marx Against Marxism II: The Ape, the Human, and the Logic of Capitalism

“Bourgeois society is the most developed and the most complex historic organization of production. The categories which express its…

May 27, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #marx #baudrillard #capitalism

Marx Against Marxism II: The Ape, the Human, and the Logic of Capitalism

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Looking for the Keys Under the Wrong Light: Baudrillard’s Critique of Historical Materialism

Light as an Epistemic Trap

May 24, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #jean-baudrillard #marx #historical-materialism