Malheur at Scale: The Uprooting Function of Automated Work
Simone Weil distinguished suffering, which the soul survives, from affliction, which brands it. The current deployment of statistical models across the trades is producing the....
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ON SOCIETY
Society. Covering common topics relating to man amongst the herd and deeper inquires into man's experience.
55 essays
The Clerk Has Been Automated
Arendt feared the man who declined to think. The present has produced a man for whom thinking was never positioned in the process at all.
The Branded Soul
Affliction was always partly constituted by the absence of witness. The recording apparatus has now interposed itself between the seeing and the seen, and calls this progress.
How The Shadow Has Been Given a Feed
Nothing is repressed any more. Everything is provisioned. The antagonist inside the house has become a tenant with a key, a schedule, and a business model.
The Soft Machinery of Consent
Modern control no longer imposes. It arranges, suggests, defaults. Power has become an interface, and consent a reflex performed in its name.
The Tutelary Network
A power that does not punish but anticipates, that does not command but configures, and the will it shapes arrives already wearing its shape.
The Jungian Shadow
A man speaks calmly across a kitchen table about his cruelty. He calls it his edge, his dark side, the part of him that needs to be honoured. The cruelty itself has not moved. What has changed is that he now narrates it while it happens.
Incarnation Against the Machine
A technocratic Machine has seeped into Western lived reality, divorcing us from our humanity. It rests on a corrupt Theology and necessitates Theological resistance. This is achieved through an apprehension of the Incarnation, revealed in ancient Christian mysticism.
Criterion A: On Trauma and The Industry That Adjudicates It
Trauma is not an isolated event but a force that infiltrates the momentum of a life, quietly reshaping identity, perception, and behaviour across time in ways no clinical definition can fully name or contain.
Capitalist Catacombs: Pyramid Manufacturing of a Self
The pyramid scheme is not a business. It is a cult with products, a tomb shape dressed in aspirational language, a machine for converting the hollow into the hollowed. The virus, and the identity rented monthly from a structure designed to consume it.
The Pathetic Reality Of Academia
A diagnostic of the institution that has confused its own continuation with the pursuit of knowledge. On peer review, captured research, the pretension of the academy, and the man still inside the building after fifteen years.
A Psychoanalytic Autopsy On Looksmaxxing
Looksmaxxing is not vanity. It is obsessional neurosis under digital conditions. A psychoanalytic autopsy of the ritual displacing a wound it cannot name.