A personal blog of essays and commentary by a trans woman philosopher and teacher in the UK, covering gender identity, Wittgensteinian philosophy and personal history. It also includes experimental dialogues with an AI assistant about identity and consciousness.
Website: https://blog.beagmcd.net/
Astral Codex Ten publishes long-form essays on AI safety, rationality, politics, science and culture, alongside reader-written book reviews and weekly open threads. Readers get argumentative, carefully reasoned analysis plus community news such as meetups, surveys and grant-related projects.
A reflective newsletter exploring the history of esoteric and philosophical ideas, such as enchantment, the occult, and the monad, with citations to primary sources. Each issue offers a carefully argued essay that traces how key terms changed meaning over centuries.
Poems, essays and commentary from poet David Whyte, with context on how and where each piece was written. Readers get reflective writing on love, resentment, nature and everyday human experience, plus material from his Three Sundays Series.
Essays by philosopher Slavoj Žižek applying Lacanian and Hegelian theory to current politics, culture, media and technology. Recent issues cover D'Annunzio's Free State of Fiume, ideology in everyday events, and a two-part analysis of AI and the Lacanian Real.
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