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: The Frustrating Sloppiness of Continental Philosophy

Here's an article about Slavoj Žižek’s rambling about the “parallax view,” and a better way of dealing with natural dichotomies.

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: 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 Mind of the Listicle Reader

Here's an article about why listicles are popular, and some of us nevertheless resent them.

On Medium: A Paranoid End-of-the-Year Update

Read on for an end-of-the-year update about some signs that the universe may be telling me to stop writing.

On Medium: The Audience’s Capture of Medium’s Curators

Here's an article that solves the mystery of the recent shift in Medium's boosting criteria.

On Medium: Why Does Medium Still Allow Hit and Runs?

Read on about cancel culture, the abuse of “blocking” writers on social media, and the secular humanist ethos of critical thinking that should guide us.

On Medium: No One Likes Talking About Men

Here's an article about the strange disparity between between stories about maleness and femaleness on Medium.

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: 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: Spot the Difference Between Honest and Dishonest Writing

Read on about how some nonfiction writers aren't trying to be truthtellers, and how to spot the difference between the two.

On Medium: The Corporate Source of Social Media Sophistry

Read on about how busy consumers must choose between infantilizing infotainment and honourable philosophical and artistic content.

On Medium: The Hiding of Sophistry in Skimmable Texts

Here's an article about why only fake readers want to read while multitasking, and only fake writers infantilize their audience.

On Medium: A Blockheaded Bureaucracy’s Futile Mischief

Read on about the gauntlet of self-publishing anthologies of web content on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.

On Medium: How Artistic Standards Can Lead Philosophers Astray

Here's an article that delves into a case study of how muddled literary philosophy can get, using Alexander Bard’s and Jan Söderqvist’s book Process and Event.

On Medium: Artists versus the Algorithm: Is the Internet Good for Art?

Here's an article about the creator economy, the existential function of art, the internet's impact on writing, and the ironic downside of getting too much of what we want.

On Medium: Why I Must Now be Rude and Stop Replying to All the Comments I Get

Read on about how popularity on social media makes us indecent, and why I can no longer respond to as many comments as I used to, or as many as I'd like.