#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 -
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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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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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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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