The word essay derives from the French infinitive essayer, "to try" or "to attempt". In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing.
Chronoaltry, Chronophobia: Why All of My Essays Are About the Idea of Time
Begun 02 September 2023.
The Cult of The Lesser Evil: Patron Saints of Utilitarianism
How much to ransome a God?
Political Demonology and the Violence of the Self
Be Gay, Build Libraries, Smash the Family
i think that’s cowardly, i think that concedes too much, i think that it reifies as assumed, natural, given the special, foundational, sovereign limits of the family and even grounds their own argument against government censorship in the consumer-esque deciding power allotted to families, that is to say, the total domination of parents over their children, their children’s reading, sexuality, subjectivity, pleasure, education, access to community, friends, transportation, independent subsistence, third spaces, in short all the necessary and auxiliary channels which a person might make use of in waging a rebellion against a despotic regime.
Radical Demonology
Radical Theologians, what are some of your radical demonological hot takes? what role/anti-role do demons play in your exegesis?
Dreamancipation: What To Do With Our Nightmares
They tell me that my bed is a temple (from Latin templum, an open or consecrated space) which i must keep sanctified unto the austere principalities of sleep. They tell me that there i should not use my phone, that i should not eat, that i should not work, that i should not read, that i should not do drugs.
Wait until i tell them about my dreams: they will tell me not to sleep in my bed either.
