Time as Practice
Essays exploring the consciousness of time
Living at the Speed of Computation
The speed at which our technology is moving is an outgrowth of the Enlightenment when supposedly we pushed God and gods to the sidelines. They are making their return as we learn to absorb more of life under computational control.
Ressentiment is not a psychology. It is a composition of time. We have yet to come to terms with its movements.
A collection of works on the physics, religion, philosophy, and history of how we’ve composed time
Practices of Time in the New Testament
Chronology
A running list of posts
Ressentiment Unbound
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.
Reading the Iliad: Mênis and the Moral Compass
Descending into Achilles passive mēnis in the Iliad leads to a better understanding of the birth of our democratic moral compass.
Reading Zarathustra: The Three Metamorphoses
The three metamorphoses Zarathustra describes in his first speech after the prologue moves us beyond any knee-jerk philosophical and religious musings of ‘being and becoming’. The vision presented here is far more sophisticated.
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.
Aphorisms on the in-Between Part I
Zarathustra’s Middle Path
Civitas Peregrina and Affirmation
Mercy without Recognition
Luke 9:57-62: Roads, Renunciation and Following
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
Hamlet’s Ressentiment
Four Meditations on Scandal and Ressentiment
Taking Stock
The Measure you Give…
Republic Book 6: Philosophers and Echo Chambers
The Angel of History

