Julian de Medeiros

Philosophical fragments & reflections

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New Episode: Is surveillance neurotic?

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New Episode: Subjectivity, mazes, and watching "Backrooms"

Jun 15•Julian de Medeiros

Watch now: Trump’s UFC birthday bash/the politics of sexual identity/Adorno on Fascism, and more

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Jun 15•Julian de Medeiros

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How to spark your own desire to be creative and intellectually active again.

"Boredom is the beginning of every authentic act." -Žižek

Jun 13•Julian de Medeiros

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How to be an artist/writer

"A writer must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource." -Borges

Jun 7•Julian de Medeiros

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New Episode: Critical inquiry and anger, ethics and morality, masculinity in opera and social media

Jun 1•Julian de Medeiros

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I Would Prefer Not To

In Wagner’s opera Die Walküre, we can find an interesting foreshadowing of Bartleby’s well-known “I would prefer not to.” When the character of Siegmund…

May 30•Julian de Medeiros

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What it means to be creative

“It belongs to the pathology of writing that to not have written for a day makes the day seem null and void, whereas in writing one chases after this…

May 27•Julian de Medeiros

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