What do attention, affordance, salience, and valence have to do with meaning, and what is the architecture of encounter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHOmNX3MVrk
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Parfit's Teletransporter Paradox? What happens to your 'self' if you are teleported to Mars?
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What if achievement itself is the most efficient form of self-exploitation?
The Burnout Society launches Readings in Late Exhaustion—a Philosophics series on the psychic economy of late capitalism.
“We exploit ourselves and think we are free.”
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New post on Philosophics.blog — Pure Reason: The Architecture of Illusion
Kant’s dream: a universe made of logic, untouched by experience.
For three turns, evidence is suspended; only deduction remains.
The Enlightenment’s most beautiful labyrinth.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/09/pure-reason-the-architecture-of-illusion/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mtg
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New from the Postmodern Set: Freedom — Enchantment: Social Contract
Rousseau’s paradox remains alive: we are born free and everywhere bound.
Freedom isn’t lawlessness—it’s shared constraint, the fragile enchantment that keeps us human.
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Why do sex workers report higher job satisfaction than 'respectable' employees? Fromm had an answer 70 years ago. The disease wasn’t neurosis — it was capitalism. We’ve automated everything except fulfilment.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/04/the-sane-society-revisited-why-work-still-drives-us-mad/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
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I used to play music. Now my hands won’t listen. That, too, is a kind of death.
Watching Neal Schon with Rick Beato sent me back to a life that’s no longer mine.
When the body forgets what the mind remembers, grief finds a new instrument.
On Death and Dying — new reflections:
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/03/on-death-and-dying/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#death #music #nostalgia #mortality #philosophy #reflection #embodiment #BryWillis #Philosophics #amwriting #books #fictionbooks #psychology #deathanddying
New card in the Critical Theory parody set: Language Game
Wittgenstein’s warning still stands: meaning isn’t a thing, it’s a use.
We live in the friction between saying and doing, countering and reframing.
👉 https://www.instagram.com/p/DQi2rvWjucT/
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New post on Philosophics.blog: Perspectival Realism – The Enchantment of the In-Between
Reality exists only so long as no one agrees on what it is.
Consensus kills the spell.
A reflection on realism, idealism, and why “truth” depends on where you’re standing.
#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Postmodernism #Epistemology #PerspectivalRealism #Idealism #Realism #Philosophics #Perspective #Art #mtg #satire #parody #psychology #blog
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