The quintessence of dust
Reflections on humanity's paradoxical nature as both noble and wretched, exploring the tension between our divine aspirations and earthly limitations
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Calendratics: debt and time
A quick reflection on the Roman and Christian implications of the calendar
Notes on Gadamer's Truth and Method
Summary of Gadamer's Truth and Method: hermeneutic circle, fusion of horizons, effective-historical consciousness, and language as universal medium.
Deleuze: Introduction to Difference and Repetition
Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, introduction: repetition produces difference, critique of representation, and the dogmatic image of thought.
Vico: 114 Axioms for the New Science
Giambattista Vico’s Scienza Nuova axioms—ages of gods, heroes, and men; poetic wisdom; philology; and cyclical history as an alternative...
Riemann: On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Basis of Geometry
English translation of Bernhard Riemann’s 1854 Habilitation lecture—n-fold extended quantities, metric structure, curvature intuitions, and...
