Category: Philosophy

  • Simulacra All the Way Down

    We’ve entered an era where images, videos, and even “news” can be manufactured at scale, and still shape the world like facts. When algorithms decide what you see, and AI can fake what you trust, reality stops being a shared place and becomes a competing product.

  • The Lie of the “Normal” Body

    “Disability” isn’t a flaw in bodies, it’s a verdict delivered by spaces, jobs, and systems built for one narrow idea of “normal.” The real fix isn’t curing people; it’s redesigning the world so human variation can actually belong.

  • Gender as Coercion, Not Nature

    Trans lives don’t “break” gender; they expose how the binary is held together by constant enforcement. From “sex assigned at birth” to medical gatekeeping and colonial erasure, the system survives by punishing anything that won’t stay legible.

  • The Myth of the Nuclear Family

    The “nuclear family” isn’t timeless love, it’s a property-and-labour system dressed up as nature. By privatising care and policing “real” kinship, it keeps women’s unpaid work, and everyone’s isolation looking normal.

  • From Personal Lies to Political Fictions

    Lying starts inside us, self-deception, curated “authenticity,” and the quiet stories that keep us comfortable but unreal. Scale it up and truth itself fractures into post-truth politics, power games, and the unsettling question of whether humans need fictions to live.

  • When Outcome Overrides Rules

    Mill flips Kant: lying isn’t automatically immoral, its wrongness depends on what it does to trust, stability, and wellbeing. But once outcomes can justify deception, the line between care and control blurs, and trust starts to feel unsafe.

  • Kant and the Duty to Truth

    Kant’s real fear isn’t one “necessary” lie, it’s the moment we normalise exceptions and make ourselves judges of when principles apply. Once lying is allowed for “good reasons,” trust, autonomy, and moral community start dissolving into calculation and power.

  • The Precarious Home

    In the city, dwelling is never secure; it is constantly threatened by demolition, displacement, and exclusion. Yet people keep remaking home, again and again, in defiance of law, markets, and prejudice.

  • Dwelling without Rootedness

    Modern cities turn homes into data and people into resources, but something essential goes missing. The question is whether true dwelling can survive technology, history, and power without repeating their dangers.

  • What It Means to Belong

    Dwelling is not about shelter, but about meaning. Even in crowded cities, people still create sacred, lived relationships with places that defy planning maps and housing statistics.