The gift has already been given
What did Prometheus give to us all?
Consult the oracle
How can we predict the future of our unwritten works?
Make words speak louder than actions
What is a worth worth compared to the deed?
Nonumque prematur in annum
How long should it take to write? How long should we give to our writing?
Gather from rills that run with honey
Shall we blame the writer for writer’s block?
Phaedrus 245a
Writer’s block (ii)
What are the conditions of a writing breakthrough?
“So the days pass and nothing is done”
A quote from Joseph Conrad
If I were Queen
What would happen if English had a robust subjunctive mood?
Is writer’s block a social condition?
What results from a change in perspective on the locus of writer’s block?
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
What are the claims in the story of writer’s block?
Writer’s block (i)
What are useful metaphors for understanding writer’s block?
Some notes on disgust
How can we talk about disgust in a way that matches the force of it as an experience?
Epistemological concussion and masochism
Can knowledge and experience ever reflect each other?
Why did we hurt sadism?
What must phenomenology do to be able to see past difficult cultural frameworks to the experience of things themselves?
Is the writing the philosophy, or the object of a philosophical process?
Writing in phenomenology is Ausdruck, not a result.
Is philosophy a result or a process? A done thing or a doing?
Messy, difficult and inconsistent. That is good philosophy.
What can a phenomenologist see when they look at the world?
Want something for free? The world, the oyster, are given to you. Giveness is a quality of the world bestowed to anyone who cares to perceive.
Is pain a pleasure through ‘some strange alchemy’?
To write a defence of masochism is a brave and difficult task. Weak claims about pain and pleasure undermine the effort.
Opening into the dog; how phenomenology gives us fresh eyes
Phenomenology can seem like a lot of long words and concepts but it’s really a process for seeing the world as it is.
How does phenomenology generate knowledge?
Too often, phenomenology is made into a step-by-step process that claims a knowledge outcome. Knowledge, however, in a phenomenological study, is an altogether different beast.
What can you do with a Stupid Detector?
A lot of what is ‘peer-reviewed’ and published as phenomenology is, my stupid detector reports, stupid. But why?
How writing rescues us from being dull and blind
To write a description is to wield a special magic. Description moves us from being blind, dull and predictable into being visionary, original and of truth.
Touched and touching: beyond neural evidence models
Some things do not ask to be explained, but understood. Cognitive models of touch, philosophy of mind and consciousness studies fail us.
