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culture · 14th of June'26
Under capital, ethics is quietly displaced by aesthetics — the good becomes indistinguishable from the good-looking. A note on how taste came to do the moral work we no longer trust ourselves to do.
art · 10th of June'26
The couture silhouette read as load-bearing structure — where does the body end and the building begin?
poetry · 20th of May'26
A small elegy for the ordinary evidence of a life — the sheets left as they were, the shape of an absence pressed into cotton.
thought · 28th of June'26
Where the maths of superposition meets the divided subject of psychoanalysis. On thinking two contradictory things at once — and calling it a mind.
thought · 11th of May'26
Classical Indian aesthetics insisted emotion could be tasted. What rasa theory teaches a modernity that has forgotten how to grieve in public.
art · 2nd of May'26
A rebuttal to Loos in soft graphite: decoration as argument, not indulgence.
fiction · 27th of April'26
Camus gave us a narrator who feels nothing at his mother's funeral and everything at the sun. On the license fiction grants to say the unsayable.
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thought
Quantum Cognition and the Psychoanalytic Subject
culture
The Eye Is the Judge: On Aesthetics and Capital
art
On Mugler: Body as Architecture
poetry
Elegy for the Unmade Bed
Rasa Theory and the Grammar of Grief
The Ornament is Not a Crime
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