Longer walks through one idea at a time, dated and tended. Each carries a short opening for reading straight through and a precise second half for anyone who wants the argument with its apparatus exposed. Essays live here, permanently and in public; the newsletter only announces them. Each ends with a way to answer it, and answers are collected in the answer log.
Newest
- The death exemption: what can you not let die? · 21 August 2026. One question to ask of any science, any tradition, or yourself, what happens when you ask it, and what it would take to prove this work wrong.
- What is time? · 9 August 2026. Not a river, not a line, not a container. Happenings keeping time, together.
By topic
Every essay carries one to four topics. A topic gathers everything on the site that touches it, essays and terms and wiki entries together.
- Mortality: finitude, death, grief, perishing, and completion.
- Time: temporality, timing, duration, and temporal plurality.
- Tending: the work’s central verb and its direct elaborations.
- Consciousness: awareness, reflexivity, and selfhood.
- Agency: action, responsibility, freedom, and response.
- Practice: exercises, disciplines, and lived ways of working.
- Ecology: living systems, land, and interdependence.
- Modernity: acceleration, mechanism, progress, and its endings.
- Politics: institutions, power, labor, and collective decision.
The full list is at all topics, and the whole corpus, in one file, is at llms-full.txt.