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"Within that circuit, which appears across global space as a maze, capital and surplus populations are trapped in a relation of non-identity. The task of politics is to sever this chain – to exit the maze." bluelabyrinths.com/2020/11/10/t...
The Rat Maze: Capitalism and Consciousness
Hacking Consciousness Founded in San Francisco in 2013 by a former MIT roboticist, the Consciousness Hacking Meetup group has expanded to 15,000 members in 30 locations worldwide, from Bali to Berl…
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February 11, 2026 at 8:04 AM
"This aspect of Deleuze’s interpretation of Bergson serves the cornerstone to much of his later philosophy. We must always remember that without Bergson, there would be no Deleuze."
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Virtuality as Coexistence in Bergson and Deleuze
Philosophy is the theory of multiplicities. Every multiplicity implies actual elements and virtual elements. There is no purely actual object. Every actuality surrounds itself with a fog of virtual…
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February 10, 2026 at 3:17 PM
"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...
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)…
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February 10, 2026 at 11:35 AM
"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...
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…
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February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"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...
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…
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February 9, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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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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January 30, 2026 at 4:36 PM
"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...
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…
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February 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
"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...
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…
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February 7, 2026 at 8:37 AM
"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...
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…
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February 7, 2026 at 7:51 AM