This page organizes my posts by projects. Over the years, my writing has coalesced into distinct streams which share a common theme or line of questioning. Sometimes this unity emerges retroactively, but other times its the result of an intentional research program. Three clear projects have emerged, as best I can see:
(1) Samsara Diagnostics | Samsara Diagnostics develops a "tragic" theory which explicates how our lack (and excess) as humans provides the very ground of our freedom. It draws on resources in Christian theology, continental philosophy, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Mahayana Buddhism.
(2) Moloch Theory | Moloch Theory continues the inquiry in Samsara Diagnostics by probing its ramifications for practical action and community, especially looking at how the combination of Capital and scientific bureaucracy have managed to transform 'freedom' into a tool of power and control today.
(3) Open Source Mysteries | This project emerged from Samsara Diagnostics as I probed the question of whether Christianity as an esoteric dimension – I realized that the view of humans, language, and truth which I was trying to articulate in Samsara Diagnostics requires a type of learning praxis which we find in esoteric traditions, emphasizing elements like subjectivity, initiation, and event.
Finally, you'll also see a few other categories for engaging the backlog of work here, including Buddhism, Christianity, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Book Reviews.
