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Death is a Frozen Fire
A metaphysical essay on death across dimensions, time, and the infinite forms of the self.
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The Urban Growth Machine and Potential Difficulties
Introduction Before discussing the ‘Growth Machine’ (Molotch, 1979), an emphasis on the primary growth discussed will be given, in the form of a definition and a brief exploration of its example, that being resilience. The modern city is, like everything else under the atmosphere, subject to the rapid climate change that is dawning upon the…
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Sustainability
Introduction With the emergence of the industrial revolution humanity has, in turn, until more recent times disassociated itself with its naturalistic origins, and so had the field of sociology. The prominence of sociological concern in environmental and sustainability issues began to see rapid expansion during the 1970’s. Before that, the social science theories on human…
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The Development of Assemblage Theories: Advancements, application and its ability to analyse
Introduction Assemblage Theory is a concept that analyses the construction of both the physical (environments, societies, nations) and the non-physical (morals, culture, histories, social) as a process of assembling assemblages (DeLanda, 2016). The theory has seen multiple renditions throughout academia, such as Actor-Network Theory, which focuses more on socio-technological constructions, the human and non-human assemblages…
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A Certificate of Presence and Absence
What is Death Now? What if death no longer means disappearing? We used to bury the dead. Now we upload them.We used to grieve in silence. Now we grieve in comments.Death is no longer a curtain call, it’s a playlist. In this age of eternal footage, AI griefbots, and ultra-HD memories, death hasn’t stopped happening……
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The Functional Absolute, Syntax and Semantics: Meditations on The Soul, Part 6
The text explores the nature of the soul as a functional absolute, distinguished from consciousness. It presents the soul as a data point that evolves through recursive observation, leading to an infinite regression of reactions. The soul interacts with reality, shaping it intrinsically, and ultimately succumbs to its own creation, akin to Hegel’s theories.
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Postmodernity and Progressive Liberalism
Postmodernity and Progressive Liberalism Metanarratives This is the first in an ongoing series of analyses and critiques on societal structures and politics, I thought I would start with the most current, relevant, and ideologically popular first. Jean-François Lyotard famously described postmodernity as an “incredulity toward metanarratives.” This means that postmodernity has scrapped old metanarratives (In…
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