Seminar Argued About a Comma for Forty Minutes
Forty minutes on a comma in a translation. Someone cried. Not me. Almost me. Academia treats minutiae like cosmos. I love it and want to flee simultaneously....
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Read Heidegger on the Delayed Train
S-Bahn delayed. I read Being and Time. The commuter next to me played TikTok without headphones. Being-in-the-world includes suffering. I wrote three pages i...
Heidegger Would Hate the Train App
I missed my stop again because I was reading about being present in the world while the train app kept notifying me to be present in the world. The irony is...
She's Not Wrong About Philosophy
Is philosophy just men explaining their feelings with fancy words? A sharp editorial argues the discipline's claim to objectivity has always been its biggest lie.
The Limits of Language, and Other Reasons I Missed My Stop
A personal essay on Wittgenstein's claim that language limits our world — and why missing your tram stop for a philosophy book is not a waste of time.