why we should

‘I feel like a man from another era’: Neanderthal hunter Ludovic Slimak This is the author in their natural habitat, but curiously unmuddied or dusted, from the inside of the dustjacket of the book The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature. The title riffing on Desmond Morris’ The Naked Ape (tell me, if you’re under 40 would…

This post follows on from The blur is not just a contradiction (Simone Weil). The notes for these were written at the same time as preparation for the post The need for worlds: Simone Weil and The Need for Roots. In The blur is not just a contradiction, the blur is discussed as an intentional way of thinking, with regard…

This floated past me on social media in November 2023. The opposite meanings these verbs define are/is united in the movement that gives the difference birth. I am fascinated by them as they can thus uncover the tension between ….movement — that we animals assume, as we step out of the flow into our bodies, embodied or worlded,… and —…

With my development of the blur as an intentional way of thinking, with regard to categories or routines of thought and language, I have discovered prior art which is either allied or bears striking similarities. Striking in the sense that they show a similar stance or attitude to: paradox, mystery, holism, emergence with any way of knowing (meaning broadly, holding…

This post discusses the idea or mental stance, not a “belief state”, of the blur. It is a key aspect of my thinking, or at least, a key meditation or practice. I came to it in parallel to my related work on the… —gap, with which the blur is part of that Janus Dance. As such it is a conscious…

Babich, Babette. 2012. ‘ “What Makes Human Beings Into Moral Beings?” The Significance of Ethics in the Process of Evolution’, Revista Voluntas: Estudos Sobre Schopenhauer 2(2): 03–30. [via academia.edu] [It is a quite long and rambling reaction] This came my way and I was pleased. I have read, decades ago, Babich’s 1994 Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the…