Main Themes I’m Working on Now…
Lifting the Weight of Culture
Culture shapes us before we can have our say about it. Sometimes, within its rhythms and tempos, new modes of experience become possible—ways of sensing, relating, and moving through cultures whose weight has, for a moment, become a little less burdensome.
Eternal Recurrence
This isn’t really that hard to get. Physics is starting to catch up with it.

A collection of works on the physics, religion, philosophy, and history of how we’ve composed time
Practices of Time in the New Testament
The Grand Narrative
How to see common things as compositions of time
Chronology
A running list of posts

Reading Zarathustra: The Speeches of Zarathustra
The second installment of my series of Reading Zarathustra. This focuses on the problem of teaching, discipleship, truth telling, and companionship in ‘The Speeches of Zarathustra’ from Book I.

Reading Zarathustra: Prologue
The first in a commentary series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This post covers Zarathustra’s Prologue.

Vesuvius: Time as Contingency
An essay about thinking time as contingency

Time and Theodicy
Religion and philosophy emerge when we descend into our experience of time

At the Edge of le Grand Récit

Galileo’s Pulse

Enlightenment, Negation, Re-Reading

Acedia and Ressentiment
Acedia and ressentiment are two of Modernity’s sins. We should learn to deal with them.

Messianic Duration

Tone as a Practice of Time

Taking Stock

The Measure you Give…

Disconnecting the Cogito from the Aufklarung

Republic Book 6: Philosophers and Echo Chambers

Ressentiment, Passive Nihilism and De-Subjectification

“Bearing Witness to the Differend”: Simone Weil’s Relational Soul

From the Athenian Condition to the Human Condition

Stoic Frontiers

Socratic Ignorance as Ascesis
