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The End of the Internet: An Interview with Geert Lovink Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic, and author of Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss (2016)…

"The internet today is a weird combination of platform dependency and state surveillance. All of this creates a feeling that there is no exit and we do not know where to go. In the meantime, we have all been stuck on the platform." bluelabyrinths.com/2023/01/02/t...

Borges on Universalism and Nationalism Borges the Argentine No one is the homeland—it is all of us. May that clear, mysterious fire burn Without ceasing, in my breast and yours. —“Ode Written in 1966″, Jorge Luis Borges (SP, 237) The wo…

"Borges represented more than just an inspiration that reached across national boundaries; he represented the creation of a new language of literature." bluelabyrinths.com/2022/09/11/b...

Taylor Swift Does Not Exist: In Memoriam Achim Szepanski The original version of this essay was published as the afterword to the new edition of Achim Szepanski’s (1957–2024) In the Delirium of Simulation: Baudrillard Revisited, published by Becomi…

"Taylor Swift knows that capitalism is all about the simulation of value. As Achim Szepanski argues in his article ... Taylor Swift is the sign of capital itself: there is nothing beside her love songs except more information to consume" bluelabyrinths.com/2025/10/03/t...

Gilbert Simondon and the Process of Individuation | Epoché Magazine A free online philosophy magazine, delivered monthly

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Gilbert Simondon and the Process of Individuation

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Motorway: Transformative Ethics of the Car A boundless landscape, roads stretching far beyond the horizon. Wind in the hair, the sky overhead, and society somewhere far behind. Iconic cinematic depictions of cars moving freely through the l…

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By: Milan Kroulik on Friday, January 30, 2026

Giorgio Agamben: Atomic Warfare and the End of Humanity By Giorgio AgambenTranslated by Lena Bloch In this article, translated into English by Lena Bloch, the Italian philosopher and author of Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben makes a timely contribution to Ka…

"Confronted with the reality of its own end, [Western reason] tries to buy time by turning this reality into a possibility that points to a future realization, to an atomic war that reason can still avert." bluelabyrinths.com/2023/01/16/g...

The Filmic Non-Place: Notes on Devirtualization in Cinema In the 2007 book Bioaesthetics philosopher and teacher of Aesthetics Pietro Montani writes about the increasing disempowerment of the external world as a source of forms where “a digital imag…

"The landscape in 'The Florida Project' is a space where power has turned its back on its inhabitants: it has grown, thriving, beyond the need of its own failed capitalist purpose." bluelabyrinths.com/2023/10/02/t...

Gilles Deleuze, A Stoic When one thinks of Gilles Deleuze, Stoicism might not be the first thing that comes to mind. The French philosopher is famous for his highly original theory of ‘transcendental empiricism’ first lai…

"To Deleuze, Stoicism was a philosophy that emphasised the importance of life. 'A life' is made up of intensive moments and events, but it can never be separated from the immanence of nature itself." bluelabyrinths.com/2020/10/25/g...