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Microglyphics“We have confused the act of exposure with the act of understanding.” — The Illusion of Light: Thinking After the Enlightenment, Bry Willis👉 <a href="https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/20/book-announcement-illusion-of-light/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/20/book-announcement-illusion-of-light/</a>📕 www.amazon.com/dp/0971086974<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enlightenment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/perception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perception</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/understanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#understanding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meme</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blogpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blogpost</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/criticalthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criticalthinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/criticaltheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criticaltheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/critique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#critique</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/promotion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#promotion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/graffiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#graffiti</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wallart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wallart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/message" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#message</a>

Microglyphics“I choose to obey, therefore I am free.”The latest in the Anti-Enlightenment Project explores how obedience becomes virtue and submission masquerades as freedom.🔗 <a href="https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/26/the-will-to-be-ruled/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/26/the-will-to-be-ruled/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiEnlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiEnlightenment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Autonomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Authority</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Power</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Obey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Obey</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meme</a>

MicroglyphicsI've assembled a dedicated page to house the Anti-Enlightenment project essays. Check it out.<a href="https://philosophics.blog/%f0%9f%9c%8f-the-anti-enlightenment-project/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://philosophics.blog/%f0%9f%9c%8f-the-anti-enlightenment-project/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enlightenment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antienlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antienlightenment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/critique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#critique</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/criticaltheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criticaltheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ideas</a>

𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Imagine closing your eyes after scrolling too long. The shapes behind your eyelids are still luminous, negative imprints of a thousand images. That residue is the new unconscious: bright, restless, algorithmic. We are not haunted by technology. We are haunted through it. <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Hauntology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hauntology</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MediaEcology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaEcology</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AttentionEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AttentionEconomy</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Hyperreality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hyperreality</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/DigitalCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalCulture</a>

𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Critical Theory warned us about commodified desire, but underestimated the seduction of agency. We choose our servitude, curated by algorithms that flatter our neuroses. Under personalization, individuality dissolves into predictability. <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a>

MicroglyphicsSeven essays in, the Anti-Enlightenment Project is starting to look like a puzzle — and some pieces are still missing.A new post outlines the five axes so far (truth, power, self, normality, ethics) and sketches what’s left unwritten: the theological, the aesthetic, the ecological, the linguistic, the communal.Sometimes the gaps say more than the essays themselves. 🔗 <a href="https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/24/missing-pieces-of-the-anti-enlightenment-project/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/24/missing-pieces-of-the-anti-enlightenment-project/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiEnlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiEnlightenment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhilosophyofMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PhilosophyofMind</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psycchology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psycchology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#essay</a>

MicroglyphicsNew essay: The Will to Be Ruled — Totalitarianism and the Fantasy of Freedom<a href="https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/24/the-will-to-be-ruled-totalitarianism-and-the-fantasy-of-freedom/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/24/the-will-to-be-ruled-totalitarianism-and-the-fantasy-of-freedom/</a>Modern autonomy collapses under its own weight. When the “self-governed subject” falters, obedience rushes in as comfort. The essay follows the gradient from freedom to devotion—where submission feels virtuous, even ecstatic.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiEnlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiEnlightenment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arendt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arendt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Totalitarianism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ethics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Power</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisIntegrationism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisIntegrationism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhilosophicsBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PhilosophicsBlog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enlightenment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Agency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Agency</a>

Dustin J. Byrd, Ph.D.The paperback of my latest edited volume, published by Haymarket Books - amidst the supposed war zone of Chicago, will be available this December. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Freud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Freud</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/psychoanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychoanalysis</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criticaltheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criticaltheory</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/newpublication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newpublication</a>

Vural ÖzdemirAI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education"What value, after all, is there in automating art, thinking, or reading – especially in educational and academic settings? None. On the contrary, .." <a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-will-not-save-higher-education-but-may-destroy-it-by-olivia-guest-and-iris-van-rooij-2025-10" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-will-not-save-higher-education-but-may-destroy-it-by-olivia-guest-and-iris-van-rooij-2025-10</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Critical_AI_Literacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Critical_AI_Literacy</a>

Microglyphics“Post-modern”? Try peri-delusional. We’ve reached the point where language sounds like an afterparty for ideas that never showed up. The prefix is tired. The age is tired. And yet—here we are, still pretending that a hyphen can save us.<a href="https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/18/post-everything-notes-on-prefix-fatigue/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/18/post-everything-notes-on-prefix-fatigue/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostEverything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PostEverything</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fatigue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fatigue</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rant</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Post" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Post</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Truth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanCondition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanCondition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Human</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheMatrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheMatrix</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Baudrillard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Baudrillard</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Bourgeois economists are incapable of confronting the falsity of their understanding of competition: For the bourgeoisie, the fall of serfdom and mercantilism seemed to have abolished class distinctions, producing what they understand as the natural order of competition among free individuals. This order is supposed to be the correct way for human society to be organized, the realization of our innate propensity to truck and barter. In this vision of bourgeois society, every subject is both producer and consumer; there is no class. Anything that disrupts this picture is an intrusion of the non-economic into the sphere of the economic. To the extent that they are willing to acknowledge it, monopolization compels the bourgeoisie to admit that the unequal distribution of power continues to exist under their rule. Rather than accepting the falsity of their understanding of competition, however, the bourgeoisie understands monopolization solely as a regression to a prior mode of direct class rule. They admit that competition, as they understand it, no longer exists, but they believe that it once did, and that what exists today is no longer genuine competition.Against this, Horkheimer understands pre-monopoly capitalism as characterized both by competition that reached all members of the population and by the unresolved problem of power. Whether by “birth or deceit, brutality or shrewdness, expertness in engineering machinery or human relations, by marriage or adulation,” there have always been groups that have managed the competitive processes within capitalism. Racketization is a reversion to more direct forms of domination, but these forms were always present, hidden behind the apparently rational market system, and this “was already clear to everyone except for the professors in the times of so-called liberalism.”"<a href="https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Competition/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Competition/</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FrankfurtSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FrankfurtSchool</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/RacketTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RacketTheory</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliticalEconomy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Competition</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Horkheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Horkheimer</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Much contemporary left thought focuses on what is wrong with capitalism. Is capitalism bad because of its unjust distributive outcomes? Or is it bad because workers are dominated, subjected to arbitrary power? Or does the badness of capitalism have to do with the opacity of the market and the way it prevents valuable forms of collective agency?While this debate about what is wrong or unjust in capitalism is important, the Left also needs to articulate a positive vision of a good society that could replace capitalism. After all, simply highlighting the problems of capitalism is unlikely to be enough to persuade people to embrace socialism. And while Karl Marx wrote that it was not for him to write “recipes for the cook-shops of the future,” “unless we write recipes for future kitchens, there’s no reason to think we’ll get food we like,” as G. A. Cohen put it.In my forthcoming book, Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society, I put forward a novel interpretation of Marx’s vision of the good society. This interpretation defends the centrality of personal development and satisfying the needs of others to human flourishing. On this view, we realize ourselves through providing others with the goods and services others need for their flourishing. I argue that this interpretation is appealing, and that it could provide the Left with an attractive account of an alternative to capitalism.However, Marx’s vision of the good society is often thought to be based on unrealistic assumptions, such as limitless abundance or an overcoming of the division of labor. My contention is that these assumptions are based on a misinterpretation of Marx’s position. To understand why Marx’s vision of the good society has been misinterpreted, we need to first understand the philosophical roots of this view."<a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/10/marx-theory-philosophy-cohen-flourishing-labor/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jacobin.com/2025/10/marx-theory-philosophy-cohen-flourishing-labor/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Marx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marx</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marxism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GoodSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoodSociety</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a>

homo hortusStructured Reading Guide: Key Posts on Politics and Critical TheoryDive into a carefully curated collection of political essays exploring power, democracy, capitalism, and emancipation. This structured reading guide helps navigate complex ideas and sharpens critical reflection. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> This reading guide organizes a selection of insightful posts around major themes in contemporary political thought and critique. The structure…<a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/structured-reading-guide-key-posts-on-politics-and-critical-theory/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/structured-reading-guide-key-posts-on-politics-and-critical-theory/</a>

homo hortusPerformative Reason: When Thought Is Reduced to Its SpectaclePerformative reason no longer illuminates or questions. It merely reenacts empty rituals that reinforce the system. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Modernity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Modernity</a> Reason no longer simply thinks; it puts on an act. It no longer enlightens; it repeats empty gestures that legitimize the system instead of questioning it. In our modern societies, reason has abandoned the domain of critical reflection to become a mere…<a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/performative-reason-when-thought-is-reduced-to-its-spectacle/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/performative-reason-when-thought-is-reduced-to-its-spectacle/</a>

homo hortusFrom the Bourgeois State to the Emancipated Public Sphere: A Critical and Utopian Vision of Social SpheresThis diagram illustrates the transformation of the bourgeois state with its colonized private and public spheres toward a model of emancipation inspired by Negt, Kluge, and Arendt. It highlights current depoliticization and commodification, against the need for a protected public space and democratic management of social necessities. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicSphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PublicSphere</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a>…<a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/from-the-bourgeois-state-to-the-emancipated-public-sphere-a-critical-and-utopian-vision-of-social-spheres/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/from-the-bourgeois-state-to-the-emancipated-public-sphere-a-critical-and-utopian-vision-of-social-spheres/</a>

homo hortusCastoriadis: Autonomy Beyond Internalized NormsDiscover how Cornelius Castoriadis challenges the illusion of individual autonomy used to mask conformity to dominant norms. True autonomy demands collective self-institution and ongoing social transformation beyond passive acceptance. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Castoriadis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Castoriadis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Autonomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democracy</a> In this post, we explore Cornelius Castoriadis’ powerful critique of autonomy as it is commonly understood in contemporary societies.…<a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/castoriadis-autonomy-beyond-internalized-norms-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/castoriadis-autonomy-beyond-internalized-norms-2/</a>

homo hortusCastoriadis: Autonomy Beyond Internalized NormsCastoriadis reveals how so-called autonomy is often a mask for dominant norms "naturalized" within us. Authentic autonomy requires societies and individuals to question and recreate their institutions, breaking free from imposed frameworks. 🇬🇧 EN 🇫🇷 FR <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Castoriadis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Castoriadis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Autonomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SelfInstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SelfInstitution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SelfCreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SelfCreation</a> Cornelius Castoriadis forcefully critiques the illusion of autonomy in modern…<a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/castoriadis-autonomy-beyond-internalized-norms/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/castoriadis-autonomy-beyond-internalized-norms/</a>

Estelle PlatiniWriting and speaking can be used/mistreated/instumentalised/weaponised "not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.”― Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, in "A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia" <a href="https://kwiecien.us/@ben" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ben</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/criticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criticalTheory</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communication</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#knowledge</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/publicOpinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publicOpinion</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#epistemology</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/agnotology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#agnotology</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rationalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/reason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reason</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#truth</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/wordsMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wordsMatter</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/semiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#semiotics</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Deleuze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Deleuze</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Guattari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Guattari</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FrenchTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FrenchTheory</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/subjugate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#subjugate</a>

MicroglyphicsAgainst Agency: The Fiction of the Autonomous SelfThe Enlightenment believed that assembling enough rational individuals would yield a rational world. It mistook addition for synthesis. The myth of the autonomous agent—of choice, will, and freedom—became the foundation of law, markets, morality, and democracy.Essay: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17276732" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17276732</a> The Anti-Enlightenment Project: <a href="https://philosophics.blog/%f0%9f%9c%8f-the-anti-enlightenment-project/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://philosophics.blog/%f0%9f%9c%8f-the-anti-enlightenment-project/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ethics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Agency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Agency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiEnlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiEnlightenment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/self" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#self</a>

homo hortusRedistribution: Caesar’s Bread, the Market’s GamesThe state redistributes... bread like Caesar! But the essential things (meaning, power, imagination) remain captured by institutions and the mythical market. Social redistribution: a tool for pacification and maintaining domination.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CriticalTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Redistribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Redistribution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StrongState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StrongState</a> Redistribution: Modernizing “Bread and Circuses”Contemporary “redistribution” — schools, hospitals, social benefits — promises to reduce…<a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/redistribution-caesars-bread-the-markets-games/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/redistribution-caesars-bread-the-markets-games/</a>

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