#critical-theory

Bataille’s “The Notion of Expenditure”

…it is necessary to reserve the use of the word expenditure for the designation of… unproductive forms…

The Unprintable Majority On Scale as a Form of Cover

An essay on media economics and social theory.

التبعية العقلية بين فقدان الاستقلال والبحث عن الهوية

نشر المقال ورقياً في جريدة مدار التحرير العدد الاول 2024

Why I Study Philosophy in the Age of Instant Answers

Philosophy as a space for slow thinking, difficult questions, and orientation inside technological systems.

What the Dalyan Does Not Tell

How traditional practices are used to hide extraction

The Troubling Moral Hierarchy Beneath ‘The Minpins’ by Roald Dahl

A story of childhood wonder that promotes exploiting vulnerability.

Deslegitimación política: aproximaciones a las dinámicas que afectan la confianza y reconocimiento…

El problema de la legitimidad se encuentra presente desde el origen de la teoría social moderna. Podemos ver, por ejemplo, como este…

Memes and the Colonization of Reality

Our Line: Anti-Revisionist BigChungist-SixSevenism with Post-Ironic Thought

Quantum Immortality: The Physics and Philosophy of Living Forever

Dancing-with

‘Dancing-with’ is a practice, a structure produced from attending with materials, environments, people, atmospheres, and events rather than…

Black Representation in Revolutionary and Napoleonic-era French art (late 18th-19th century): How…

November 25th, 2025

Kita Semua Merupakan Aktor Bertopeng

Kehidupan sebagai panggung dalam teori dramaturgi

Digital Literacy: Why the Digital Space Is Not Neutral

When did I realize that digital spaces are not neutral, but shaped by power, manipulation, and interests? I realized it through my own…

The People Who Hate the Jews the Often do so Because They’re Humiliated

Arab, Socialist, and “Woke” Activists’ hatred stems from shame

El mito de estar fuera del mito

La desmitificación transforma los relatos desde los mismos horizontes simbólicos que intenta examinar

The Shifting Landscape

How values, perceptions, history, and memory alter land-use

Hunters, Fighters, and Aedile Hands

The former first son consecrates holy ground with ridiculous, anti-democratic political theory.

A Dud: What the Colonial Project Promised African Men

Positionality of the writer

Who Shapes Society?

Who Shapes Society? I’ve spent the last several months reading things that most people don’t put together in the same pile. Sociology…

*283* The Forgotten Physical Force: Structural Unity Before Energy

For centuries, physical interpretation has been guided by a remarkably successful principle: when multiple phenomena are observed, they are…

Damaged Life: Adorno and the Art of Not Looking Away

Theodor Adorno spent his life doing something most of us are trained from childhood to avoid: he looked directly at the cracks. Not the…

Comprender a la filosofía para superarla

Hace un tiempo me preguntaron si me gustaba la filosofía. Me lo preguntaron aún sabiendo mi formación. En realidad, no fue a pesar de haber…

Deconstruction in Literature: Why Meaning Is Never as Simple as It Seems

What if the meaning of a text is never fully fixed?

Philanthropy is the White-washing of Theft

My belief:

Conocimiento encarnado

Una crítica al ideal de objetividad desinteresada

Beyond the AGI Hype: Decoding the “Triple Dilemma” and the Algorithmic Leviathan

We are told that scaling up Large Language Models (LLMs) will inevitably lead to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). But what if the…

Literary Character Theory: Sympathy in Anti-Heroism?

The purpose of anti-hero characters is never to be known as either a hero or a villain of a particular book or movie. The character is…

Psychoanalytic Criticism and Literary Analysis: Why the Unconscious Mind Still Matters

What if literature reveals more about the human mind than psychology textbooks?

TRAVEL IS DEVALUED ​A few decades ago, I walked across my own country under the naive illusion that…

Beyond the Carrot-Tops and Into the Roots: Ginger Extraterritoriality and Solar Accumulation

Subaltern Studies: Why Marginalized Voices Matter in History and Literature

History is often presented as a collection of facts, victories, and political events. But one important question changed modern historical…

Cultural Materialism: How Literature Reflects Power and Ideology

Literature is often presented as timeless, universal, and politically neutral. But Cultural Materialism challenges that comforting idea.

Hermeneutics: From Hermes to the Philosophy of Interpretation

Exploring the history of hermeneutics, the role of language in shaping reality, and why human understanding is always an act of…

Duckification — On Self-Referential Duck Logic アヒル化現象 — 自己言及的アヒルロジックについて

#推論感の実験

Habermas and Marcuse sit in a bar, it’s 2026. What would they say about today’s academia?

it’s a wednesday evening in warsaw. the kind where the sky is still light at 9pm, and the city feels caught between spring and something…

Herbert Marcuse Against the Closure of the Possible

Review of Critique of Advanced Technological Society

How We Become Authoritarian Without Noticing It

After World War II, the most unsettling question was not how dictators rose, but why so many ordinary people were ready to follow them.

Feminist Literary Theory: Why It Still Shapes Modern Reading Culture

For centuries, literature was often treated as universal while many women’s voices remained marginalized, overlooked, or excluded from the…

From Immanent Critique to Body-Listening

Listening to Igor Stravinsky and Geordie Greep with Theodor W. Adorno and Georges Bataille

Why Marxist Literary Criticism Still Matters in Modern Literature

What if literature has never been politically neutral?

The Ontological Imposture of Economy: Why “the Economy” May Not Exist at All

What if “the economy” is not a domain of reality, but a language that produces the very world it claims to describe?

Know the Why, and You’ll Understand the How.

When I was younger and wanted to learn guitar, I would watch online tutorials until I learned how to play a song I liked. For now, we’ll…

Akankah segalanya terhubungkan

kata terhubung sering kita lihat pada berbagai tulisan ataupun bacaan di media sosial dan bisa juga dikatakan sebagai koneksi, menjadi…

Spinoza Built the First Risk Model and They Excommunicated Him for It

The wrong story

“Komodifikasi” sebagai Reduksionisme Kritik: Apa Implikasi Politiknya?

Apakah kita diam-diam sedang menghapus kompleksitas perjuangan visibility kelompok marginal itu sendiri?

The Death of Objectivity in the Age of Postmodernism

Why certainty, neutrality, and absolute truth became increasingly questioned in postmodern thought.

From Ego to Eco: Postmodernism and the Death of the Autonomous Subject

How postmodern thought shifted philosophy from human-centered rationality toward interconnected structures, ecology, language, and networks…

Nietzsche, Philology, and the Human Need for Truth

Nietzsche on philology, chaos, art, and the human need for absolute truth.

The Defendant and the Recursive Loop

Observations from the Department of Uncertain Sciences A brief case study in procedural delay, recursive thought, and administrative…

Can Postmodernism Define the Absolute? A Rortian Reflection

A reflection on contingency, anti-foundationalism, and how postmodernism exposes the constructed nature of “truth” through self-critique…