Invasive
The white men from empire were the invasive species of the Middle East. They charged into a new habitat and forced the native species...
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Writings
For Those Still Remaining Neutral
Our moral architecture is crumbling as Gaza is demolished. We’re watching genocide live-streamed while tucked into bed, riding the subway...
The Inner Citadel
The inner citadel is a mental fortress one creates against adversity. The inner citadel can be destroyed through external pressures if it...
Free Body Culture
FKK, or Free Body Culture, (Freikörperkultur in German), emerged in the 1800s as a method for health optimization and later became a...
The Will to Meaning
The human spirit has an innate will. This will is what propels us to move forward in the riddled labyrinth that is existence. Freud...
There is Fear
A friend and I were talking about the past and how far we’ve come. A few years ago there were months on end where she was on the brink of...
The Necessity of Humor
Comedians have a way of taking sensitive topics like racism, sexism, and politics and bringing them to light in a way that is...
The Beholder’s Share
It wouldn’t be simplistic to say that everything in life is a relationship; a relationship because there’s always one entity interacting...
Self Obsession vs Self Knowledge
There is more self exhibitionism now than ever. Look how much money I have. Look how hot I’ve become. Look how great my boyfriend is....
Art is for Everything
The world informs creativity. The world contains everything and each of its pieces can be metastasized into art. This can take the form...
Womanhood and the Role of the Body
People cannot choose their bodies, but they do choose how to conduct themselves in the skin they've been given. The body is animated by...
Labor, Leisure, & Carol Bove
Many artists use their personal lives as an experiment in which everything becomes material to work with and create from. All acts, from...
An Egyptian Bachelor Party
Neith grew up in a town outside of Cairo, with a conservative Arabic upbringing that revolved around family and the value of education....
Lessons from de Botton's “The Course of Love”
Alain de Botton is a British author and a philosopher of our contemporary age. His work tackles a few of the most timeless issues of the...
Nietzsche’s Morals and Aestheticism
Nietzsche was one of the primary philosophers to contemplate the symbiotic relationship between aestheticism and morality. People’s...
Post War, Post Destruction, Post Life
War is the collective unconscious suffering that manifests in a denial of life. It places people in bestial states and increases...
Silencing Freud's Thanatos
In Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle," he presents a speculative theory, contested by many psychologists.This theory does not...
Part Idea, Part Man: Idealization & Love
When I first met him, I was lulled by euphoric waves of MDMA but it was better than a pill because I was sober and awake. In the...
Flâneur
I did not live in the realm of space and time, which meant I was perpetually tardy to meetings, both for work and social activities. When...
For One Night
I was crashing in a community house of techies and entrepreneurs in San Francisco. I was the only one in this fourteen-person household...
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