Prophets of disaster always materialize, in the manner of ghoulish onlookers, seemingly from nowhere, at a grisly accident.
Sep 142023
Sep 132023
Positivism, n. A philosophy that makes one less and less positive.
Sep 122023
Marxism tamed revolution by rendering it “scientific”, inevitable, a matter of the right ingredients in the right proportions, like chemistry. What has been tamed will be vulgarized, and it is Marx himself who is the true father of Che on a t-shirt.
Sep 112023
Wounded honor provoked duels; wounded feelings provoke lawsuits.
Sep 082023
Everyone can be replaced, and will be.
Sep 072023
We repeat history because we cannot reverse it.
Sep 062023
Complexity, randomness, inspiration, unconscious process — we bestow names as if they conferred understanding.
Sep 052023
Revolution is for an imagined future, and revolt, on which it depends, for an imagined past.
Sep 042023
To act requires a certain lack of imagination.
Sep 012023
The only way to escape the thrall of a philosopher is to read him.