Category: capitalism

[NB] Leviathan Glamours

NB: From my journals, so please read the tone as more on-the-fly ponderings than anything else, but I’ve done some editing here for clarity. Heathen Chinese posted a fantastic article on TWH that links (conceptually) with my thoughts on glamours & egregores, thought-gods—of “leviathans” (via Hobbes[1] & elsewhere) as aggregate entities, social “golems” assembled in […] … Continue reading…[NB] Leviathan Glamours

Light, Shadow, Darkness (4)

We imagine ourselves all the time, even if we lump that imagining in with our everyday awareness of ourselves. Our fantasies involve us imagining what we want, imagining different situations that we may (could or wish to) find ourselves. Every action is arguably preceded by us imagining doing the action: we imagine hanging up a picture before we actually enact what we have imagined. … Continue reading…Light, Shadow, Darkness (4)

Thought-Gods & Daemons

Behind the petty facades of the everyday, behind the numbers around us, the prices and wages and statistics, behind the logos and corporate sigils, there lurk dangerous chimerae, egregores, and gods. These gods are new American gods—which we seek to export and convert—our national spirit that we try to foist upon others, the Mickey, the […] … Continue reading…Thought-Gods & Daemons