We used to look to stars. Now we look to speculative algorithms. New essay on what that means for design + desire → open.substack.com/pub/thomasjock…

Digital structures first captured the lust of men with fantasy. Now these structures capture the curiosity of men with fiscal speculation. substack.com/@thomasjockin/…

If philosophy isn’t a spiritual exercise for you, you’re doing it wrong.

Magnificent teaching on display

Memory is found in the heart open.substack.com/pub/thomasjock…

Thomas Jockin thomasjockin.com Ousi homesteady.substack.com Michael Deklerk youtube.com/channel/UC-6Mb… Clayton Nyakana youtube.com/channel/UCgEnM… Michelle Garner open.spotify.com/show/2vEUJP0wm… youtube.com/watch?v=8Xx6Ro…

Insulation nor separation isn’t the point. The Beautiful is the cause of the Good. (Plato, G Hippias 297b) To claim that beauty passes over to goodness gets you entrapped in an ideology map + ironically defeats triune being!

Transversing the Good is my Lacanian version of transversing the fantasy

Choice and freedom are not the same thing. open.substack.com/pub/thomasjock…

See my course on virtue and health from Halkyon Guild: halkyonacademy.teachable.com/l/pdp/philosop…

Forgiveness becomes possible (without unconscious resentment) once you truly understand that the loss itself can never be repaid or reconciled. In other words, Transverse the fantasy.

First you're attracted to one beautiful body, then you come to appreciate all beautiful bodies, then you see that the beauty of the soul outweighs that of the body, and then finally you realize that what you were really attracted to was the Form of Beauty all along.

Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because -- and this is a direct quote -- he was concerned that otherwise he might "become

Combining virtue ethics with Lacan has been a big project of mine. Here's a little taste to how I've been thinking about it open.substack.com/pub/javisfunny…

30 pages into Duncan Reyburn’s “The Roots of the World” and I am captivated. The metaxy of tradition and modernity; presence and absence; thought and fact is lovely to read.

Now THIS is the interesting question in a post-LLM world

Now THIS is the interesting question in a post-LLM world

spiral periodic tables

To the contrary, Ps.-Dionysius's 'analogy' (he is the first Christian author to consistently use the Greek word ἀναλογία) is indebted to Origen of Alexandria, who, in On Frist Principles, frames the essential proportionality of the 'seeds of reason' (logoi spermatikoi) under the