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Flourishing with Freedom
During my latest trip to Weimar I found myself in front of a group of Nietzsche sculptures. Trust me when I say that the guy staring at you is not endearing at all. Though it did motivate me to finally write this piece, which I’ve been putting off forever. For the past two years I’ve… Read more
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Fate is a Dialogue
Recently, my friend Zeynep and I were working on a project when she told me a story from her childhood. As a child, she would watch the trees and the wind. She never believed the wind was shaking the trees. To her, the wind was simply how trees spoke to one another. That image stayed… Read more
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Honey, You’re Not a Category
Perhaps, the better way is to stop producing new categories and heuristics every other minute and focus on how much nuance we can tolerate at a small scale. True emancipation looks less like living the “right” life and more like living one’s own. Read more
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Kemal: A Hero of Our Time
Pamuk’s İstanbul is written from inside this loss. The city’s ruins, fog, water, and derelict wooden houses are not scenery; they are materializations of a withdrawn metaphysical horizon. Hüzün becomes urban atmosphere. Read more
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The Split
Polarisation, then, will no longer be primarily political. It will be ontological. It will be about proximity to reality. Some will opt into technologies, narratives, and tools that twist everyday experience. Others will have to carry the burden of interrogating reality down to its substance. Read more
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The Coin and the App
A hallmark of our age has been the death of ritual. We’ve silently traded ritual for speed. At first glance it seems we’ve made things more efficient, yet further examination suggests the opposite. Read more
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