Friday, March 21, 2025
David Lewis-Williams argues that while early humans used cave art to express inner experiences, contemporary individuals are trapped in a hyperreal world that dictates their internal realities, necessitating a rhizomatic approach to consciousness that values depth and opacity over societal norms.
Friday, March 21, 2025
In Phenomenology of Perception, Maurice Merleau-Ponty posits that our existence is fundamentally embodied—that perception is not merely a passive reception of the world but an active engagement with it. The body is not just an object in the world; it is the very medium through which we perceive, experience, and construct meaning. Within this framework, the increasing prevalence of aesthetic procedures, heavy reliance on makeup, and the imposition of rigid beauty standards can be understood not just as cultural phenomena but as mechanisms of ontological erasure—designed to strip women of their temporal, subjective depth and render them immediately consumable.
Friday, March 21, 2025
Emmanuel Levinas, in Totality and Infinity, presents the idea that encountering another’s face places us in a position of ethical responsibility. This concept challenges traditional Western philosophies that emphasize knowledge and domination over the other. For Levinas, the face-to-face encounter disrupts totalization; it is an appeal that demands recognition of the other’s humanity. However, when we analyze this through the lens of gender dynamics, particularly in patriarchal societies, we see that this ethical responsibility is often corrupted—especially when it comes to the way men look at women.
Friday, March 21, 2025
In an era where connection is confused with consumption, polyamory is often sold as a progressive antidote to the possessiveness and patriarchal structures of monogamy. But when examined closely, polyamory too often becomes just another extension of the same capitalist logic it claims to resist—a system of diluted attention, fragmented desire, and emotional outsourcing masked as liberation. The Myth of Infinite Love in a Finite Body We are told that love is not a finite resource.
Friday, March 21, 2025
In a world where love is often equated with possession, validation, and permanence, a different approach emerges—one that is fluid, intense, and unbound by traditional structures. This approach is not about playing games, nor is it about adopting a detached or cynical stance. It is about radical sincerity, about experiencing connections fully, without the need to own, control, or stretch them beyond their natural course. Loving in the Present, Without Ownership
Friday, March 21, 2025
Climbing a tree is not merely to ascend a physical structure. It is an act of resistance. A reclamation of the body, of space, of freedom from linear expectations. It is a way of saying: I move because I can. I do not exist solely to be watched, weighed, or consumed. Climbing a tree collapses hierarchy. There is no audience in the branches, no mirror held up by society to dictate whether your ascent is graceful, feminine, or useful.
Friday, March 21, 2025
In a world obsessed with performance, validation, and possession, sex has long been positioned as a pillar of human connection, self-expression, and even personal evolution. But what if this pillar is hollow? What if the act we are told is the most intimate and essential is, in fact, a performance of disembodiment, submission to a system of consumption, and a betrayal of one’s own becoming? From the perspective of radical autonomy and internal transformation, sex becomes not only useless — but fundamentally meaningless.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Amid the dominance of mass production and the detachment of labor from meaning, crafting a knife by hand becomes a deliberate act of defiance. It is not just a return to material and time, but a reclaiming of authorship—an imprint of presence onto an object shaped with intention, weight, and will. The creation of a knife from scratch is not a passive endeavor; it demands full commitment—physically, mentally, and emotionally. Every stage of the process requires unwavering attention, as any small oversight can drastically alter the outcome.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
The Need for a More Radical Technological Insurrection Xenofeminism (XF) has already laid the foundation for a feminism that does not reject technology but reclaims it. Yet, as systems of control evolve, so must our strategies. If the internet was once a space of radical potential, it has since been transformed into a hyper-surveilled, hyper-commodified environment. The next step is not just to participate in technology but to infiltrate, subvert, and ultimately render existing structures obsolete.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
By refusing to consume, one does not escape the system; one merely becomes a more sophisticated consumer. From Resistance to Market Integration Second-hand clothing was once an act of resistance. It was an anti-fashion statement, a rejection of the rapid turnover of trends dictated by the fashion industry. It was associated with countercultures, marginal groups, and economic necessity. Thrift stores, flea markets, and DIY upcycling were ways of opting out of the mainstream, refusing to be dictated by corporate cycles of production and obsolescence.