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1) Why Ranting?

   A Brief essay outlining the peculiar space a Rant enjoy, suspended as it is between philosophy and political commentary.

2) Why must I have an Identity?

This essay looks at Hume’s rather odd theory of identity, and links it to the modern pre-occupation with consumerism.

 3) Splitting the Image.

This essay attmepts to identity two or three themes From Deleuze, and makes themes feel both useful and accessible, in understanding modernity. 

  4) It a plugging thing.

This essay attempts to free elements of Foucault from the clutches of the sociologists, and make him a radical once again.

  5) The  old Old problem: part one and two.

Extended essay looking at Spinoza’s last book, and showing why that book has rather a lot to tell us about modern politics.

   6) Fighting the good Leibniz fight!

 This looks at how Leibniz allowed an answer to consumerism, and how it might populate a mind 

    7) We Do it for the Children.

An essay looking at Plato’s theory of education, and why it ought to matter to us all.

    8) Doing what we Ought.

This essay looks at Kant’s conception of the categorical Imperative, and  pitches that theory against its true rival Deleuze. sounds    technical, but in this debate an entire constellation of morality is caught.

    9) Taking the Biscuit.

Rare look at Schopenhaur, and examines why his folly tells us so much about ourselves!