Courses/Seminars …
Philosophy of the Sublime: Magic & Imagination
The philosophical sublime refers to those terrifying and delightful realities that exist beyond the common everyday, it is these that the magician seeks to experience and use to achieve a cosmic elevation of the self. 10 Aug – 24 Aug ’21
Phenomenology: An Introduction
“Psychic life is accessible to us not only through self-experience but also through experience of others.” — Edmund Husserl (1927) Encyclopedia Britannica: Phenomenology 20 September – 6 December ‘21
Chinese Philosophy in a Nutshell
“At fifteen I set my heart on learning; at thirty I took my stand; at forty I came to be free from doubts; at fifty I understood the Decree of Heaven; at sixty my ear was attuned; at seventy I followed my heart’s desire without overstepping the line.” — Confucius Analects 2.4 20 September – 11 October ‘21
Japanese Philosophy in a Nutshell
“True nothingness is one that envelops being and nothingness with no such character of opposition.” — Nishida Kitaro (1926) The Logic of Place 18 October – 8 November ‘21
Hannah Arendt: On Violence and Politics
“ … power always stands in need of numbers, whereas violence … relies on implements.” “The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.” — Hannah Arendt (1969) On Violence 2 – 9 October ‘21
Buddhist Philosophy in a Nutshell
”Form is empty. Emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form; form is also not other than emptiness. ” — Heart Sutra 15 November – 6 December ‘21
See also …
 | Agents of Erasure The second instalment of a series of novellas evoking post-artificial, post-sexual worlds in an imaginary version of the Solar System. This metaphysical melodrama charts the inter-planetary journeys of several human-like beings who kill while searching for their cosmic origins ... |  | Eidopolis The first instalment of a series of novellas evoking post-artificial, post-sexual worlds in an imaginary version of the Solar System. In this metaphysical melodrama, an existential crisis unfolds in lunar mega-city ‘Eidopolis.’ Death becomes the profound totem of a dawning post-mortal existence … |
 | Jupiter|Saturn The third instalment of a series of novellas evoking post-artificial, post-sexual worlds in an imaginary version of the Solar System. In this metaphysical melodrama, the transformation of the Solar System brings about a synthesis of organic, organismic, machine and nuclear modes of being … and the suicide of a God. |  | The Last Days of The Most Hidden Man Mental machines dream of great power … This metaphysical melodrama takes place in a technocratic society sealed-off from an Earth in ecological crisis. The emergence of consciousness in a machine triggers a process of social disintegration as atavistic impulses, thought long buried, erupt. A new order of mental being will come to displace and supersede the old human world. Dreaming machines portend apocalypse … |