Ancient Rhythms, Modern Time
Before modernity fractured time, earlier thinkers wrestled with its movement, its cycles, and its demands.
These essays trace how ancient philosophy and Enlightenment science illuminate our own struggle to navigate an age shaped by the speed and spread of computational technologies.
Chronology
An essay on the experience of heterochronic time in our turbulent age. Harrison offers his characteristically unique take on heterchronic time and humanity’s ability to remain youthful while we age.
The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.
The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?
What is to become of religion in our time? In this essay, I descend into Bataille’s speculations on the contingent birth of consciousness out of the ‘water in water’ of pure experience.
Nietzsche treated ressentiment as a consolation for a desire for vengeance that is too weak to act. But what happens when it finds itself in power? In this essay, I explore the consequences of empowered ressentiment on the woke left.
Descending into Achilles passive mēnis in the Iliad leads to a better understanding of the birth of our democratic moral compass.
The first of an ongoing re-engagement with the Iliad. Here we have an untimely meditation that holds up the mirror of violence to a culture desparately in need of alternatives to vendettas.
Michel Serres at his most political. This 1990 book is a defining work in the modern understanding of the climate crisis. I've written a long essay inspired by the depth and breadth of Serres vision.
An essay on how to use 'the parasite' as an operational concept that expands our capacity for experience.

