The Paradox of Synthetic Belonging
Between Wittgenstein, GenAI, and TikTok: if belief is less about evidence and more about identity, what happens to truth when algorithms mediate belonging?
Blog Posts
Three States of Software Systems: Rain, Rails, and Pain
A reflection on an ambiguous interview question and how it mirrors the lifecycle of software projects, from joyful experimentation to stable operations and painful maintenance.
Machine Sophists and the Dialectic of Reason
From Sophists to generative AI: when reasoning becomes a service, what happens to truth, agency, and the dialectical progress of history?
Books
On the Genealogy of Morals -
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About the morality of mores.
What are the Iranians dreaming about? -
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Essays by Foucault in the analysis of why the Iranian revolution, after traveling to Iran during the revolution.
In Praise of Idleness: A Timeless Essay -
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How less work can bring relative happiness and more leisure for everyone
The unbearable lightness of being -
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The novel is not the author's confession, but an exploration of human life in the trap called the world.
The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel -
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If an important issue is ignored in the group, no other important words will be said.
Between Security and Insecurity -
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A collection of essays exploring the nature of modern society through 19 short, interlinked meditations. Klíma takes a humanist's stroll through our inhumane century and ponders our millennial prospects, discussing rationality and irrationality, the artificial world, modern idols, mass media, and movements for change. The Czech writer examines the fundamental questions of security and insecurity in contemporary life, reflecting on civilization's moral challenges and humanity's capacity for both rational thought and self-destruction. Part of the "Prospects for Tomorrow" series.
When Nietzsche Wept -
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A novel of obsession set in Vienna, Austria, in 1882, relating a fictional meeting between the doctor Josef Breuer and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. When distinguished physician Josef Breuer finds himself struggling with obsessive thoughts about a former patient, he agrees to meet with the poverty-ridden, unknown philosopher Nietzsche. Breuer must cure Nietzsche's despair without his knowledge by posing as the patient himself and begging Nietzsche's help. The ensuing month of daily talks becomes increasingly compelling as both men uncover their forgotten pasts and delve into unconscious desires and fears. With the revolutionary ideas of young Sigmund Freud influencing them, their dialogue becomes the origin of psychoanalysis and explains how Nietzsche received the inspiration to write "Thus Spoke Zarathustra."