As someone who studied philosophy, all of my writing has some theoretical/philosophical aspects in them. The articles collected here engage with them in a bit more focused manner than the rest. Since the subject matters treated here are not strictly speaking philosophical, I use 'theory' as a blanket term.
Imagining Oktober
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” (1 Corinthians 13) German Spectre Sometimes seeing less, or trying not to overcome the obscurity, reveals more about the subject. This
What Is Violence?
* The violence is the denial of other’s right for self-determination by force. * By force, I mean both explicit and implicit use of force. * The violence is used individually or collectively. * The violence is used against anything categorisable: race, gender, sex, class, nationality, geographical origin, age, physical appearances, disabilities, species,
Japan and Modernity
The Root of Ambivalence This is the first article of a series, Akutagawa, which is a subcategory of Japan and Modernity. This series focuses on the life and the work of a Japanese author, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Akutagawa is still considered the first champion of modern Japanese literature and a representative
The Trouble With The Absolute: Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
L’homme n’est ni ange ni bête, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l’ange fait la bête. (Pascal, Pansée, c.1654-1662 Penseés, pt.6, no.358.) Preamble According to Friedrich Nietzsche, the prominent Persian thinker Zarathustra supposedly declared empathically in a typical mannerism of a Übermensch:
I’m Not Human At All
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