by Fulano de Tal | Jul 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
What do we seek when we look for self-dissolution in the arms of another, when we don’t know where we end and our lover begins? There are well-documented affinities between Christian and other mysticisms on the one hand and the desire to both lose and realise oneself...
by Fulano de Tal | Jun 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Preamble These notes represent a preliminary outline of what we hope in due course will be developed into a fuller piece of writing designed, as ever, to support the human project and the transformation of everyday life. Small ambitions, then. As is so often the way,...
by Fulano de Tal | Mar 2, 2013 | Philosophy & Ethics, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
“The Magical Mystery Tour is dying…”1 Traditionally, political theories and ideologies have given primacy to the mass as a social entity, whose motives and actions are determined by economic considerations, to the detriment of the analysis of drivers of individual...
by Fulano de Tal | Dec 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
To what extent do people distinguish between the terms ‘theory’ and ‘ideology’ in political discourse2? In our view, they each have radically different implications, namely an ideology is an a priori, solipsistic, and unfalsifiable3 entity, whereas a theory is ‘open’...
by Fulano de Tal | Nov 28, 2012 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture
Violence – did somebody mention violence?[1] The inter-relationship of violence, ethics, and revolution Many of those committed to the human project, namely the total transformation of social relationships, tend to adopt an ‘end justifies the means’ approach[2]. This...
