On Medium: Vagaries of Deep Time

Here's an invitation to listen to my second music album on YouTube, Vagaries of Deep Time.

On Medium: Can Digital Content Still be Precious?

Read on about the “remixes” of my first album that are out on YouTube.

On Medium: Algos in the Cave

Read on about my first music album, "Algos in the Cave," which is now out on YouTube.

On Medium: Musical Mana from the AI Gods

Read on about the current algorithmic reckoning for human musicians.

On Medium: Fake Experts’ Appraisals of Art

Here's an article about phony lists of the best art, and how real experts’ criteria for excellence can’t be gamed.

On Medium: We’re Sad Clowns Who Cling to Art

Read on about how fiction saves us from confronting nature's inhuman enormities.

On Medium: Art Can Be Both Historically Great and Lame

Here's an article about the Western canon, the problem with postmodern cynics, and the difference between art's historical importance and its psychological impact.

On Medium: The Mirage of Facts in a Desert of Storytelling

Read on about the question of what’s more fundamental, storytelling or objective knowledge, and whether the possibility of objective truth is the deepest fiction.

On Medium: The Poison Pills of Liberal Institutions

Here's an article about why science, capitalism, democracy, and the liberal arts may not be sustainable since they conflict in some ways with their underlying humanist ethos.

On Medium: Taylor Swift and Art’s Neoshamanic Purpose

Here's an article about superstardom after the death of art, and whether Taylor Swift fulfills art's neoshamanic purpose.

On Medium: Tool-Users and the Mastery of Writing

Read on about why you shouldn’t publish if you can’t write well without computers, AI, and the internet, because publishing should be for masters, not students.

On Medium: Our Maker’s Creativity is Ambiguous

Read on about how we project our longings onto natural transformations, as we prefer order to disorder even though the two are interconnected in nature, and disorder may prevail.

On Medium: Religion as Faulty Technology or Disposable Art

Here's an article about the spectrum of artifacts in late-modern societies of abundance, and whether religious beliefs and rituals should be viewed more as tools or artworks.

On Medium: AI Slop and the Artist’s Struggle

Here's an article about the corporate prioritizing of output over process, and the implications of consumers' devaluing of the artistic process.

On Medium: Progress and the Daemonic Critique of Naturalness

Read on about how art, not wisdom, defines our species because counter-creation in a pantheistic context establishes our existential condition. 

On Medium: The Cosmic Importance of Art

Here's an article that outlines transhuman values for our enlightened descendants, explaining how aesthetic values alone are metaphysically grounded in nature's creativity.

On Medium: Music for Strong and Weak Generations

Read on to compare the music produced by bands and “solo” artists, and to see how generations grow up to different kinds of music, which strengthens or weakens them.

On Medium: There’s No Final Word in Art or Religion

Here's an article about the blasphemy of believing that religious scriptures convey absolute truths, and the implications of the fact that art is never completed but only abandoned.

On Medium: Bob Ross’s Mantras Tame Cthulhu

Read on about the Lovecraftian view of nature, and the secret of Bob Ross’s cult status as a painter of “happy” landscapes.

On Medium: Shakespeare’s Pantheistic Deflation of Art

Read on about what Shakespeare calls “Nature’s bastards,” the Romantic overcompensation for Christianity's demonization of nature, and the progressive revolt against wildness.