To see evolution as an explanation is not to receive a fact — it’s to inherit a long history of conceptual labor. Phenomenology doesn’t dismiss this — it reveals it as the very condition for meaning. Sense is not given; it is achieved.
Watch the essay.
This short video-essay is part of a modest channel I created this year, initially with the quiet hope of one day making a living from the craft I love. But reality proved otherwise. Rather than revenue, the project drew a kind of hostility that, frankly, borders on the pathological — a social media phenomenon I can only describe as a black hole of psychic derangement.
Let me be precise. The visual dimension and rhetorical pacing of my videos — many of which are shaped with the aid of generative AI — seem to trigger, in certain viewers, not curiosity but panic. Not critique, but collapse. The rhetorical cadence of this very message — its modulation, texture, and pacing — also owes something to AI. As a non-native speaker navigating a linguistic economy where fluency too often serves as a gatekeeping mechanism, I have found in these tools not a shortcut, but an amplifier. This is not gimmickry. It is simply the new terrain. Musicians, rhetoricians — like mathematicians before them — have had to witness the partial automation of their craft. The response need not be despair, but adaptation.
Yet what these tools reveal — the loosening of form from credentialed authorship — seems to unmoor some. The reactions they provoke are not grounded in philosophical reflection on AI’s role in our cultural landscape, nor in historical analogies to sampling, montage, or symbolic recursion. They are, rather, spasms: affective seizures in the presence of form untethered from familiar authority. And in that, one suspects, lies the true scandal.
One begins to suspect that the algorithm has not created a crisis of originality — it has merely revealed how little of it was ever there to begin with.
The truth is this: the small, bitter minds that prowl the gutters of online commentary are not just annoying. They are dangerous. They function, psychically, as vectors of poison — desperate figures from the valley of despair, anxious to drag others into the abyss they now call home. Their rage is not philosophical; it is pre-rational. Like figures from a spiritualist parable, they carry decay as a vocation.
And so, before I risk renewing any naïve dream of making money from thought, I have chosen — for now — to retreat into a style more resonant with what we might still call academic. Not in the bureaucratic sense, but in that older meaning: a space of interior labor, of disciplined wonder. The following video is part of that effort. It is a morning essay, of the kind that might accompany a professor’s first coffee — not to instruct, but to spark: a conceptual prod, a turn of phrasing, a philosophical ember around which thought can gather again.
Fields of Mind: Philosophy Audio Essays
To see evolution as an explanation is not to receive a fact — it’s to inherit a long history of conceptual labor. Phenomenology doesn’t dismiss this — it reveals it as the very condition for meaning. Sense is not given; it is achieved.
Watch the essay.
This short video-essay is part of a modest channel I created this year, initially with the quiet hope of one day making a living from the craft I love. But reality proved otherwise. Rather than revenue, the project drew a kind of hostility that, frankly, borders on the pathological — a social media phenomenon I can only describe as a black hole of psychic derangement.
Let me be precise. The visual dimension and rhetorical pacing of my videos — many of which are shaped with the aid of generative AI — seem to trigger, in certain viewers, not curiosity but panic. Not critique, but collapse. The rhetorical cadence of this very message — its modulation, texture, and pacing — also owes something to AI. As a non-native speaker navigating a linguistic economy where fluency too often serves as a gatekeeping mechanism, I have found in these tools not a shortcut, but an amplifier. This is not gimmickry. It is simply the new terrain. Musicians, rhetoricians — like mathematicians before them — have had to witness the partial automation of their craft. The response need not be despair, but adaptation.
Yet what these tools reveal — the loosening of form from credentialed authorship — seems to unmoor some. The reactions they provoke are not grounded in philosophical reflection on AI’s role in our cultural landscape, nor in historical analogies to sampling, montage, or symbolic recursion. They are, rather, spasms: affective seizures in the presence of form untethered from familiar authority. And in that, one suspects, lies the true scandal.
One begins to suspect that the algorithm has not created a crisis of originality — it has merely revealed how little of it was ever there to begin with.
The truth is this: the small, bitter minds that prowl the gutters of online commentary are not just annoying. They are dangerous. They function, psychically, as vectors of poison — desperate figures from the valley of despair, anxious to drag others into the abyss they now call home. Their rage is not philosophical; it is pre-rational. Like figures from a spiritualist parable, they carry decay as a vocation.
And so, before I risk renewing any naïve dream of making money from thought, I have chosen — for now — to retreat into a style more resonant with what we might still call academic. Not in the bureaucratic sense, but in that older meaning: a space of interior labor, of disciplined wonder. The following video is part of that effort. It is a morning essay, of the kind that might accompany a professor’s first coffee — not to instruct, but to spark: a conceptual prod, a turn of phrasing, a philosophical ember around which thought can gather again.
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