Essays

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• Zendaya and the Art of Multiverse Maintenance — A review of Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse and a meditation on the metaphysics of emancipation and the queer monomyth.

• Landline Stories in a Smartphone World — On the past and future of science fiction, occultism, Seraphim Rose, Douglas Adams, Zeerust, Peter Thiel, Gene Roddenberry, and John Michael Greer.

• Book Review: Sadly, Porn by the Last Psychiatrist — A radically disorganized Borgesian journey through a series of made up pornographic movies, generously footnoted with manic analysis of pop-culture and greco-roman history. Both-sides-ism. Some fun anecdotes.

• The Good Race — A critical, right-wing reading of Michael Schur’s moral-philosophical primetime sitcom The Good Place. Zahir and Batin. How progressive racial morality is expressed implicitly through casting decisions.

• Interviewed by AstralFlight — On deconstructing literature through identity politics. Postmodernism. Game-theoretic problems with primitivism. David Foster Wallace. New Atheism and Gnon.

• So You Want to Write Fiction with AI — on the use of GPT and similar as tools for creative writing. Comment on the Wittegensteinian notion that language itself is the substance of thought. Save the Cat. On Pidgins and Moral Values.

• The New Tlön — an essay I wrote for The American Mind re: Curtis Yarvin