3:The Indominable Gaze of the Other

The cartel looks to replace the male gaze of the movies with the Nietzschean void's famous stare-back.

2: The Indomitable Gaze of the Other

The cartel travels into the near-far to find new technologies of remapping the body, so that it might manifest the invisible rather than merely make visible.

The Indomitable Gaze of the Other

The visible is foregrounded by an obscured background, so that revealing relies on what can't be seen for its presentation. But can the darkness appear in its invisibility without reducing it to the merely visible?

4. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known

LLMs may have code, but they can't touch the Lacanian Real, so they don't have the Symbolic either, since human language is a relation between what it discloses in the register of the Symbolic and what it hides in the register of the Real.

3. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known

Jorge Luis Borges has a famous short story called "On Exactitude in Science," in which a cartographer makes a map that is as large as the territory that it covers. What can this tells us about the relation between models and the reality that they proport to disclose?

2. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known

Uncomputable problems seem to indicate that not everything can be known, especially because of their relation to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. However, it all comes does to how one interprets "incompleteness."

1. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known.

Evolution by natural selection seems to show gap's of indeterminacy within its "total" determination of niche construction. Could the "natural" selector be less "blind" than was once assumed?

The Dream Project

I'm working on a theory for a dream project. If we are prediction machines, then dreams are for scenario rehearsal. If we are more than this, then dreams are for something more as well.

2: Dreams and a Sense of the Sacred

Are dreams for prediction machines to process information and rehearse for possible future scenarios? Or is there evidence that they may be for something more?

1. Dreams and a Sense of the Sacred

The most direct road to the lost sacred is through the fucked up landscape of dreams. Shifting through this nighttime trash is to enjoy the warped detritus of the Real.

Desire is a Demon

A conversation about demonology as the study of what speaks from within me more than me that my friend James turned into a dub techno sermon.

Love and Freedom

I sent out a text message to my men's spirituality group that I wanted to revise to make the connection not only between love and freedom, but also to non-attachment as the violence of love. Here it is.

Notes

Why Start a Demonology Club?

James R. said to me, "Did you know that 'True Detective' pulls from two books, Eugene Thacker's 'In the Dust of This Planet' and Thomas Ligotti's 'Conspiracy Against the Human Race'?"

Notes

The Nostalgic Poison of Euphoric Recall

The outline that I wrote but won't read from when I lead.

Notes

Outline: The Numinous Lacan, or the Real as Marion's Counter-Experience

The outline of the presentation that I gave at the Lack conference.

Essays

Part 8: What to Do About Too Much Aboutness

Iconic representation lacks verisimilitude to present the absence of the Real.

Essays

Part 7: What to Do About too much Aboutness

Symbolic incursion into the Real is eternal because of the Real's absolute withdrawal from the Symbolic.

Essays

Part 6: What to Do About too much Aboutness

Love makes a clearing for the irreducible ambiguity of the Other, both the Other within and without.

Essays

Part 5: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The gap between being and knowing is imperfectly bridged by religious ritual.

Essays

Part 4: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The product of the Non-Relation is irreducible ambiguity.

Essays

Part 3:What to Do About too much Aboutness

The process of differentiation makes irreducibly ambiguous objects, but the process of identification makes equivalences by forcing difference to converge on an absent ideal form.

Essays

Part 2: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The horror of the drive is its irreducible ambiguity.

Essays

Part 1: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The oxymoron is like the unresolved double negation because they both produce irreducible ambiguity.

Essays

Introduction: What to Do About too much Aboutness

The introduction to the paper that I wrote for the Lack conference.