‘We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secrets sits in the middle and knows’ Robert Frost, ‘The Secret Sits’ Robert Frost’s ‘The Secret Sits’ expresses the expansive economy characteristic of the very best poetry. For the best poems are those that accomplish much more in their evocation than appears quantitatively possible. The …
Category Archives: Contemporary Philosophy
A Footnote on Freedom: Camus and Fisher in a Paradise Lost
A response to a colleague’s question ‘What is freedom to you?’ It started as a tweet and ended up becoming a rambling engagement with the deserts of freedom in the work of John Milton, Mark Fisher, and Albert Camus.
Antinatalism, or, the Defining Moral Question of the 21st Century
A lengthy, discursive engagement with various works on antinatalism – a little known philosophy I’ve been interested in for the past five years – examining what it is and why people subscribe to it.
No Gods, No Masters 