The Fragrant Crystal of Time

Byung-Chul Han posits that “narration lets time emit a scent.” He is writing of scent because he is writing of Proust, who poses the image of a ‘fragrant crystal of …
Read More

Modern societies rely on science more than ever, yet increasingly identify it with its technological outcomes. Both its cultural role—as a form of critical inquiry that shapes our worldviews—and its …
Read More

If you, like me, ill-advisedly whiled away the past couple of weeks in a haze of doomscrolling, then you have seen the memes. Sophie Cunningham, a shooting guard for the …
Read More

Contemporary digital landscape reveals that a totalized system of global administrative control—characterized by biometric identities, the elimination of cash, algorithmic sorting, and transhumanist optimization—does not require a supernatural villain. It …
Read More