About

My work is focused on postmodernist philosophy. I am particulary interested its applications to computer science, neuroscience, and antipsychiatry. The style of content I use on this site is aphoristic. I am influenced by Nietzsche’s “The Gay Science” here. I enjoy writing short pieces which briefly explore a new idea. I am also working on a few longer essays, but I am hoping to get those published externally.

Computer Science
Prior to my focus on philosophy, computer science was my academic pursuit. As such, I’m particularly interested in the interdisciplinary overlap. Postmodern philosophy provides some new and unusual ideas about conceptual organization which, to my knowledge, are mostly unexplored in terms of their implications to computer science. Deleuze’s “Rhizome” has interesting applications to data structures and cloud infrastructure. Derrida’s “deconstruction” comports with the statistical techniques used by large language models in natural language processing.

Neuroscience
Cartesian thought draws a barrier between “mind” and “matter” as two fundamentally distinct substances of being. The fact that the brain seems to be both - a form of matter that generates or at least interfaces with mind - remains an unresolved problem for philosophers and scientists. I have begun to explore this strange territory in works such as Hell is a Place on Earth and Post-Human Ethics. I am as fascinated by the brain as I am afraid of it.

Anti-Psychiatry
Psychiatry and its opposition is a difficult subject to discuss because the public discourse around psychiatry has deviated so far from the actual practice of psychiatry. In fact, most people who claim to be “impartial” towards psychiatry unknowingly maintain a thoroughly supportative position. This is because the psychiatric rhetoric (e.g “mental Illness” and “antidepressants”) has permeated our culture on a paradigmatic level. These concepts are applied so rigidly and automatically that no one thinks to examine their theorectical foundations. What exactly is a “mental illness” and how does it differ from a neurological disorder? If a “mental illness” is simply a brain disorder, why is it not treated by a neurologist? Why would a substance called an “antidepressant” substantially increase rates of suicide? What exactly is a “psychiatrist” and what kind of work does he do? Once you answer these questions, you see through an optical illusion which makes the picture of psychiatry (and society at large) look much different