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2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

The limits of my language. mean the limits of my world. Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophics 5.6

#Booksky #2books #poetry #Galicia #translation #French #Quebec
January 19, 2026 at 1:37 PM
microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
A simple reminder that most Philosophics Blog podcast summaries are available before the blog post.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/22/psa-podcasts/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#blog #announcement #podcast #philosophy #language #reading #talking #sharing
Bry Willis with an AI mic insert
December 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
microglyphics.bsky.social
A simple reminder that most Philosophics Blog podcast summaries are available before the blog post.
philosophics.blog/2025/12/22/p...
#blog #announcement #podcast #philosophy #language
PSA: Podcasts
Just a quick note. Podcast summaries are typically available ahead of Philosophics blog posts. I have NotebookLM summarise the posts after I write them, but I try to only post one per day. So, if I…
philosophics.blog
December 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
jonacollateral.bsky.social
Philosophics always carry skulls around and say, "Isn't this my skull?"
December 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM
microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
In the segment I talk about Transductive Subjectivity, what it means, and how I use AI to help my thought process in absence of human beings who aren't as available
https://youtu.be/SsOvTj46qFY
#video #philosophy #youtube #thinking #ai #meow #blog #podcast […]

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Bry Willis, Philosophics, Problem Solved
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Language philosopher Bry Willis (me) , who writes on Philosophics.blog, shares his backstory, discusses how he incorporates generative AI into his workflow, and talks about his projects. He also published speculative literary fiction under the pseudonym […]

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Language philosopher Bry Willis of Philosophics Blog
November 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
microglyphics.bsky.social
What is the hard problem of consciousness, and why is it so intractable? An early podcast discusses a solution to be posted on Philosophics Blog.
👂 open.spotify.com/episode/4lew...
#philosophy #psychology #podcast #blog #perspective #spotify #consciousness #language #perspective #grammar #meow
Grammar, Mediation, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
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November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
What is the hard problem of consciousness, and why is it so intractable?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4lewdpPt4tMbVZEkJ5skS5?si=LjlFTj0yQq6odr9OUjFaiw

An early Spotify summary on NotebookLM discusses a solution that will be posted on Philosophics Blog […]

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cracks
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
verlaglarswinkler.bsky.social
-ella -ella eh eh eh lower than salmonella -ella -ella eh eh eh... Told you I'll be here forever, me and Putin are together, Epstein's files I need to block, cause I love to suck some c.., against my nazi-philosophics, there are no antibiotics, to ME, Melania is Cruella, I poll lower than salmomella
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
microglyphics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
What if achievement itself is the most efficient form of self-exploitation?

The Burnout Society launches Readings in Late Exhaustion—a Philosophics series on the psychic economy of late capitalism.

“We exploit ourselves and think we are free.”

🔗 […]

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A digital trading card titled “Achievement Token — Condition.” The image shows a human figure shaped like an hourglass, sand flowing through its body as if time and self are draining away. The design echoes the colours of oxidised red and muted graphite, symbolising burnout and the illusion of productivity within modern capitalist culture.
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
williambabey.bsky.social
It's Sunday, and it's gloomy outside so don't mind me spewing philosophics and two-cent takes on sociology.
October 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
microglyphics.bsky.social
New on Philosophics: The Film or the Strip — Freud knew the 'normal ego' was a fiction; Strawson simply refused to pretend otherwise. Some live the film, others the strip. The projector hums either way.

👉 philosophics.blog/2025/10/26/t...

#Philosophy #Freud #Identity #Foucault #Self #Normality
The Film or the Strip? On Freud, Strawson, and the Fiction of Normal Selves
Are you a single, solid self – or a collection of selves stitched together? 🎉 200th Philosophics Post in 2025! 🥳(889 lifetime; over 550,000 words)Rather than present a dedicated announcement post, …
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October 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
microglyphics.bsky.social
The Film or the Strip? On Freud, Strawson, and the Fiction of Normal Selves

Are you a single, solid self – or a collection of selves stitched together? 🎉 200th Philosophics Post in 2025! 🥳(889 lifetime; over 550,000 words) Rather than present a dedicated announcement post, I'll slip the news into…
The Film or the Strip? On Freud, Strawson, and the Fiction of Normal Selves
Are you a single, solid self – or a collection of selves stitched together? 🎉 200th Philosophics Post in 2025! 🥳(889 lifetime; over 550,000 words) Rather than present a dedicated announcement post, I'll slip the news into a typical post. Most of us are trained to answer without pause: of course, we are one continuous person. That’s the diachronic instinct – to live life as if it were a seamless film, each day a frame gliding into the next.
philosophics.blog
October 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
microglyphics.bsky.social
I've assembled a dedicated page to house the Anti-Enlightenment project essays. Check it out.

philosophics.blog/%f0%9f%9c%8f...

#blog #enlightenment #antienlightenment #philosophy #philosophics #psychology #critique #criticaltheory #ideas
🜏 The Anti-Enlightenment Project
An open philosophical archive exploring the failures, limits, and afterlives of Enlightenment rationality. Essays on agency, democracy, and reason’s ghosts.
philosophics.blog
October 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
microglyphics.bsky.social
The Anti-Enlightenment Project keeps growing — and showing its gaps. New post mapping what’s written and what’s missing.
philosophics.blog/2025/10/24/m...
Sometimes the absences are the argument.
#Philosophy #AntiEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Philosophics
Missing Pieces of the Anti-Enlightenment Project
I’ve just added a new entry to my Anti-Enlightenment corpus, bringing the total to seven – not counting my latest book, The Illusion of Light, that summarises the first six essays and places …
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October 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
franzjaeger.bsky.social
If you want to discuss metaphors and philosophics of greed and justice, maybe you should not start with some specific numbers.
Just a recomendation.
October 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
capy-king.bsky.social
real philosophics right here
September 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
microglyphics.bsky.social
What if agency itself is not a universal essence at all, but a Modernist myth that props up blame, merit, and power? And what if nihilism doesn’t demand despair?

philosophics.blog/2025/09/08/k...

#Philosophy #Postmodernism #CriticalTheory #Nihilism #OctaviaButler #Sartre #Philosophics #Essay #Blog
Keeping Ourselves in the Dark: Depressive Realism and the Fiction of Agency
Philosopher Muse brought Colin Feltham to my attention, so I read his Keeping Ourselves in the Dark. It’s in limited supply, so I found an online copy. So much of modern life rests on promise…
philosophics.blog
September 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
microglyphics.bsky.social
Octavia Butler’s Dawn opens with an alien saying, ‘You committed mass suicide.’ Maybe ‘agency’ is just a story we tell to prop up power. Read my new essay → philosophics.blog/2025/09/07/o...

#Philosophy #OctaviaButler #Postmodernism #Agency #Philosophics #AmReading #Reading #Books
September 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
hokutoandy.bsky.social
"Tolkien's Ring" by big fan/scholar David Day goes over world mythology that inspired JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Says Dark Lord Sauron with his Ring of Power is an echo of ring wielding Tibetan, Mongolian, Chinese hero-kings that influenced the Finnish Kalevala that teen Tolkien loved!
Tibet's epic hero, Gesar of Ling, was a warrior, magician, smith and king who ruled the greatest kingdom in Tibet. The Gesar epic is recorded in many versions, but in its entirety is traditionally recited morning and afternoon by the folk singers of Tibet for forty-two days. The multi-skilled hero Gesar becomes the King of Ling by virtue of many feats of heroism and magic. His confirmation as king comes when the supernat ural guardians of the kingdom allow him entry into a crystal mountain where the Treasures of Ling are kept. As the King of Ling, Gesar takes possession of the great hall's countless trea-sures. Without doubt, the most important is the emblematic throne of the realm on which rests a huge gold mandala ring that is known as the 'Life of Ling with a crystal vessel at its centre, from which flow the shining 'waters of immortality'. Gesar's early life was not an easy one. Although born a royal prince, while he is still a child his parents are slain by Kurkar, the evil sorcerer and King of Hor. The orphaned Gesar is found in a heap of rubbish and adopted by a poor smith who raises him as an apprentice. Under the adopted name of Chori, he survives many attempts by sorcerers to kill him. He becomes an extraordinary alchemist by combining his skills as a smith with his inherited powers of sorcery. He creates many wonders in his smithy for his master, but for himself he forges an unbreakable sword from celestial (meteoric) iron. Gesar prepares himself for his ultimate duel with his great enemy the King of ORIENTAL MYTHS Hor However, he knows that Kurkar cannot be slain until a huge iron mandala ring or talisman which is kept in the palace treasury is destroyed. This huge iron talisman contains the "life" or "soal' of Kurkar and all his ancestors The poet tells us: "This sacred iron had been venerated for many centuries and in it reposed the viral essence of the dynasty of the Kings of Hor. While the evil Kurkar himself' says: "It is the "life" of my ancestors. Sometimes sounds come from it, at other times it speaks. Gesar tricks the King of Hor into allowing him access to the iron talisman. However, it is believed Karkar is safe because the iron cannot be melted or forged by any known means. The fire of the furnace does not even redden the sacred won. Gesar is warned by the master smith: "It is folly to think that it will let itself be forged." Gesar is no ordinary smith, and accepts the challenge. He summons his supernatural brothers and a multitude of spirits who manage to build a huge furnace and fill it with 'coal piled high as mountains. This results in an inferno that is safficient to forge the iron mandala. Gesar and his supernatural brothers strike the iron mandala with hammer blows that sound like thunder. At last the iron 'life of the Kings of Hor is broken, though we are told 'the three worlds shook with its destruction. Once this is achieved, Gesar of Ling puts on his glit sering armour and takes up his word of celestial iron. In all his shining glory, Gesar appears before the evil King of Hor. Gesar declares his true iden tity to Kurkar and his mission of vengeance. Then, with a single stroke, Gesar of Ling cuts off the sorcerer's head In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, his evil Sauron the Ring Lord shares many characteristics with both Gesar of Ling and Kurkar of Hor. Like Gesar of Ling. 158 TOLKIEN'S BING. Sauron is both a supernaturally gifted smith capable of creating unmatched wonders upon his forge, and a magician capable of terrifying acts of so… ORIENTAL MYTHS not only can individual souls or lives be kept in a nong or talisman, but so can the seads or lives of entire dynasties and whole zutions. This certainly paralicis Tolkien's epic adventure where Sauron the Duk Lond's entire evil empire collapses with the One King's destruction This idea is suggested or implied in European ring quest opics like the Volsunga Saga and the Nibelungenlied, but the point is more ofien made explicitly in Asian epic tales. Perhaps this is because eastern religions or philosophics, such as Boddhism, are not in conflict with their shamanistic and alchemical traditions. Nor do they appear to have the Christian Church's need to vilify or climinate these tradi Throughout Asia, the connection between the magician and the smith is absolute. In Siberia, the Buriat people divide smiths into two categories, black smiths and white smithe. This is exactly how they divide their shamane or magicians. Both black smiths and black magicians are feared because they are capable of capturing and destroying people's souls Several Aum tribal peoples still maintain the belief that 'the sorcerer and tise smith come from the same nest. Both the smith and the magician are given the honoured title 'master of fire". This magician smith tradition of northern Asia extended into northern Europe. Its strongest manifesta tion is probably found in the mythology of the Finno-Urgic people of Finland and Estonia. In ongin, these were a nomadic Asiatic people who migrated west to the Baltic Sea. Racially and linguistically, they are unrelated t any other European race. The supreme manifestation of their culture is the national epic of Finland, known as the Kalevala. The Estonians have a variant of this tradition called the Kalevipoeg Tolkien read the epic as a student and immediately fell in love with the tale and the language. In his letters, he frequently acknowledges the Kalevala's influence, stating that it was 'the orig inal perm of The Silmarilli Tolkien al…
August 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
williambabey.bsky.social
For waxing philosophics, drawing stuff, and talking about a long running anime franchise
August 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
microglyphics.bsky.social
We don’t have a self—we perform one. In fiction and life, identity is a strategy, not a truth. My latest post on Philosophics explores persona, survival, and narrative through the fractured lens of a woman with three names.
The Heuristic Self: On Persona, Identity, and Character
We tend to think of identity as something we have—a singular, coherent self that persists across time. But identity is not possession. It’s performance. In fiction and in life, the self is a heuristic: a shortcut to manage contradiction, context, and expectation. The woman at the center of Needle’s Edge doesn’t have one identity—she has three. Each is deployed with precision, not deception. This isn’t a story about lying. It’s a story about surviving complexity in a world that demands simplicity.
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August 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
fboukra.bsky.social
For radioactive waste almost all catégories havé already a safety solution (except « DSFI » low activity and very low volumes) - see « PNGMDR »
today waste are not a technical problem no moré (in France)
Only philosophics interrogations

Sorry for my english 😉
May 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
yeehawpoems.bsky.social
Topher

I had a friend named Topher
She who drew dresses before us
with swirling elaborate ruffles

I had a friend named Topher
He who flirtatiously bantered
and educated on dental tips

I had a friend named Topher
He who collected rich watches
and discussed philosophics

#poetry
May 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM