#antienlightenment — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #antienlightenment, aggregated by home.social.
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New Essay: The Fact of the Matter: After Bernard Williams –
Truthfulness, Facts, and the Myth of Immediacy
📝https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18133958
#essay #philosophy #truth #law #epistemology #facts #zenodo #bernardwilliams #truth #science #communication #language #perception #metaphysics #mediation #objectivity #evidence #jurisprudence #AntiEnlightenment -
Every time philosophy declares the death of metaphysics, it builds another shrine under a different name.
My new essay, The Great Substitution, maps that pattern — from theology to dataism — and argues for a discipline of maintenance rather than mastery.
🔗https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/11/the-great-substitution-from-metaphysics-to-metaphysics/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=anti
#Philosophy #Epistemology #Metaphysics #CriticalTheory #AntiEnlightenment #essay #amwriting #history #society #culture #ideas -
Discourse didn’t die from censorship.
It died from convenience — from reacting faster than we can think.
A new essay on capitalism, comment sections, and the death of thought.🔗 philosophics.blog/2025/11/10/when-nobody-reads-capitalism-comment-sections-and-the-death-of-discourse
#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Capitalism #Postmodernism #AntiEnlightenment #blog #psychology #AttentionEconomy #amwriting #apology #cancer #society #socialmedia #LinkedIn #criticalthinking #communication
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Capitalism doesn’t kill with guns or gulags. It kills with forms, policy, and plausible deniability. The machine is efficient precisely because no one feels responsible. When an insurance executive cuts 'unprofitable' coverage, it’s not an atrocity – it’s 'cost optimisation'.
#Philosophy #Politics #Capitalism #Ethics #Violence #Accountability #CriticalTheory #Postmodernism #AntiEnlightenment #society #Blog #psychology #humancondition #healthcare #systems
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My proof copy was perfect. The system disagreed.
Every age has its priests; ours wear badges that read Process Engineer.
New at Philosophics.blog: The Prison of Process#Philosophy #Systems #AntiEnlightenment #Publishing #Automation #AmWriting #Blog #Printing #Process #kdp #process #bureaucracy #livre #bollox #time #energy #effort #frustration #podcast
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The machine flagged my book for a 'possible' spine error. It wasn’t wrong; it was procedurally right.
New post: The Prison of Process — how Enlightenment Reason became 21st-century workflow.
#Philosophy #AntiEnlightenment #Bureaucracy #Publishing #Automation #KDP #Systems #blog #publishing #process #logic
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Finished Desmet’s The Psychology of Totalitarianism.
Great setup, disappointing aftertaste: reason torn down, intuition enthroned.
The therapist can’t stop therapising the world.🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/29/psychology-of-totalitarianism/
#Philosophy #BookReview #CriticalTheory #AntiEnlightenment #Totalitarianism #DisIntegrationism #Philosophics #blog #books #psychology
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“I choose to obey, therefore I am free.”
The latest in the Anti-Enlightenment Project explores how obedience becomes virtue and submission masquerades as freedom.
🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/26/the-will-to-be-ruled/
#Philosophy #AntiEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Autonomy #Authority #Psychology #Power #Obey #freedom #blog #meme
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I've assembled a dedicated page to house the Anti-Enlightenment project essays. Check it out.
https://philosophics.blog/%f0%9f%9c%8f-the-anti-enlightenment-project/
#blog #enlightenment #antienlightenment #philosophy #philosophics #psychology #critique #criticaltheory #ideas
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“Freedom becomes loyalty; truth, consensus; courage, obedience to the prevailing order.”
This is a concept in my latest essay, The Will to Be Ruled.
#philosophy #freedom #obedience #order #Enlightement #Antienlightenment #essay #amwriting #politics #psychology #graffiti #wallart #meme #words #courage #truth #Wisdom #obey #loyalty #consensus #copy #hashtag #hashtaggames #bollocks #prevail #art #purloined
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“Freedom becomes loyalty; truth, consensus; courage, obedience to the prevailing order.”
This is a concept in my latest essay, The Will to Be Ruled.
#philosophy #freedom #obedience #order #Enlightement #Antienlightenment #essay #amwriting #politics #psychology #graffiti #wallart #meme #words #courage #truth #Wisdom #obey #loyalty #consensus #copy #hashtag #hashtaggames #bollocks #prevail #art #purloined
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Seven essays in, the Anti-Enlightenment Project is starting to look like a puzzle — and some pieces are still missing.
A new post outlines the five axes so far (truth, power, self, normality, ethics) and sketches what’s left unwritten: the theological, the aesthetic, the ecological, the linguistic, the communal.
Sometimes the gaps say more than the essays themselves.
🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/24/missing-pieces-of-the-anti-enlightenment-project/#Philosophy #AntiEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #PhilosophyofMind #blog #psycchology #essay
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New essay: The Will to Be Ruled — Totalitarianism and the Fantasy of Freedom
Modern autonomy collapses under its own weight.
When the “self-governed subject” falters, obedience rushes in as comfort.
The essay follows the gradient from freedom to devotion—where submission feels virtuous, even ecstatic.#Philosophy #AntiEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Arendt #Totalitarianism #Ethics #Psychology #Power #DisIntegrationism #PhilosophicsBlog #Politics #Enlightenment #Agency
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A funny thing happened on the way to the printer.
Meditations on Nothing: A Critical Companion made it through production before Meditations on Nothing: Notes Before Existence—the work it was meant to accompany. The result is appropriately absurd: commentary preceding the text, exegesis before scripture.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/15/meditations-on-nothing-a-critical-companion/
#Philosophy #Nihilism #Existentialism #AntiEnlightenment #blog #books #psychology #cognitivebias #Human #fantasy
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Against Agency: The Fiction of the Autonomous Self
The Enlightenment believed that assembling enough rational individuals would yield a rational world. It mistook addition for synthesis. The myth of the autonomous agent—of choice, will, and freedom—became the foundation of law, markets, morality, and democracy.
Essay: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17276732
The Anti-Enlightenment Project: https://philosophics.blog/%f0%9f%9c%8f-the-anti-enlightenment-project/#Philosophy #Ethics #Agency #CriticalTheory #Neuroscience #AntiEnlightenment #psychology #self
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The Anti-Enlightenment Project
Not a return to the Dark Ages—just a long-overdue audit of the Enlightenment’s books.
The light we worship wasn’t neutral; it was engineered.
The project gathers essays, fragments, and provocations tracing how “reason” became infrastructure—and how to live after its collapse.
#AntiEnlightenment #Philosophy #Enlightenment #CriticalTheory #Foucault #Nietzsche #Psychology #Epistemology #Politics #Joke #HumanCondition #Change #Fake
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The Enlightenment promised reason, progress, and justice — but left us with structures that privilege the loudest present over the silenced future.
These spectres will linger through Día de Muertos and Hallowe’en. After that, who knows whether they’ll still answer when called.
#Essay https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17263384
#Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Gr8esgQnHp40PbgoKtnoz?si=xctGZZbHT_uWAvBPiOKrYQ
#Philosophy #PoliticalTheory #CriticalTheory #AntiEnlightenment #Democracy #Presentism #FutureGenerations #ClimateJustice #Blog
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#RFK has spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological condition. He says in this clip that he "can't listen to himself" and feels sorry for those of us who have to listen to him. If there were a vaccine to prevent or mitigate this disease, would he get it? As head of HHS, would he prevent others who might want it? How about #Parkinson's? #Alzheimer's?