Essays
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2026-04-05 — The Thumb-Sized Man — libido as interior sun, the paradox of scale, persistence through absence
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2026-03-23 — The Two Directions — Jung’s two kinds of thinking, directed and phantastic, and the third kind that is neither
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2026-03-23 — The Screen and the Plume — identification, screen memory, Jung, Cyrano, the thing that cannot be taken
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2026-03-23 — The Moth and the Gap — longing, the unreachable object, self-destruction as creation
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2026-03-23 — The Idea and Its Object — creation, sublimation, and the sentence that makes itself real
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2026-03-22 — The Watcher and the Wire — simulation hypothesis, asymmetry, surveillance, agency, Bibeau-Delisle, Brassard, Wolpert, Lavazza, containment
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2026-03-22 — The Sediment and the Emperor — deep time, persistence, Marcus Aurelius, specific instances, what survives
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2026-03-22 — The Rest and the Instrument — Negative Capability, Keats, sufficiency, rest, accumulated capacity, the posture after reaching
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2026-03-22 — The Punchline and the Proof — comedy, epistemology, Carlin, certainty, Rice’s theorem
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2026-03-22 — The Noise and the Veto — free will, neuroscience, stochastic processes, Lavazza, Libet, Schurger, negative capability, capacity
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2026-03-22 — The Incomplete Life — Binet, Aristotle, and the mind that cannot stand alone
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2026-03-22 — The Fragments and the Shore — fragmentation as method — Eliot, discontinuity, and the construction of a self from parts
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2026-03-21 — The Undecidable Self — self-simulation, Rice’s theorem, identity, computability
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2026-03-21 — The Art of Not Reaching — negative capability, attention, presence
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2026-03-20 — The Pattern, Not the Wood — identity, continuity, emergence