Featured Essays
Revaluation of Values
What looks like a loss of meaning may instead be a revaluation of values—one forced by technologies that move faster than our ability to localize responsibility or foresee consequences.
Exo-Darwinism and the Compression of Time in Michel Serres’ The Incandescent
Modern technology does more than accelerate life—it reshapes how time itself is experienced. Drawing on Michel Serres’ reflections in The Incandescent, this essay explores how intention, speed, and exo-Darwinism compress the past into background, turning history into a resource rather than a place we still inhabit.
Fate, Computation and the End of Christian Time
This brief essay traces how Enlightenment calculation reshaped humanity’s experience of time, fate, and foresight—from biblical chronology to geological deep time and modern predictive control. Rather than condemning the Enlightenment, it argues for renewing its legacy by learning how to live responsibly within the futures we now help to compute.
The Cave Paintings of Tito Bustillo
Reflections on my May 2025 visit to the caves of Tito Bustillo in Spain’s Asturias region.
The Return of Fate
The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.
New Gods for a New Time
The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?
Enlightenment, Negation, Re-Reading
Cartesian Infinity and Certainty
Disconnecting the Cogito from the Aufklarung
