A Phenomenology of Cooking
Exploring the embodied, temporal, and relational dimensions of cooking as a fundamental way of being-in-the-world, where transformation, care, and dwelling converge in the kitchen.
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A Phenomenology of Perception
Exploring the active, embodied nature of perception through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michael Polanyi, examining how we inhabit the world rather than merely observe it.
Read More →A Phenomenology of Euphoria
A phenomenological exploration of euphoria, integrating Heidegger's concept of mood with Csikszentmihalyi's flow, Nietzsche's affirmation, Sartre's magic, and Durkheim's collective effervescence.
Read More →The Phenomenology of Personality Disorder
An exploration of personality disorder - what does it mean to be-in-the-world with intense emotions.
Read More →Review: Deep Simplicity
A review of John Gribbin's 'Deep Simplicity', exploring how complex systems and the emergence of life arise from simple underlying rules through chaos and complexity, with reflections on Heideggerian phenomenology.
Read More →The Weight of Existence: A Phenomenology of Depression
Depression is explored not as a mere sadness but as a fundamental alteration of lived time and space where the future collapses and the world loses its solicitation.
Read More →The Labyrinth of the Self: A Phenomenology of Complex PTSD
Complex PTSD reveals itself not merely as a reaction to past events but as a fundamental alteration of the lived world, where the boundaries between self, time and other are reshaped by the experience of prolonged captivity.
Read More →The Phenomenology of Industrial Design: Experiencing Objects Through Human Perception
The phenomenology of industrial design reveals that successful objects transcend their material form to become meaningful experiences through sensory engagement, embodied interaction, and temporal relationship, fundamentally reshaping how we understand the relationship between manufactured things and human consciousness.
Read More →The Phenomenology of Desire: The forces that shape human longing
Nietzsche, Lacan, Girard, and Deleuze and Guattari offer distinct yet complementary phenomenological accounts of desire, revealing it not as a simple longing for objects but as a complex social force shaped by power dynamics, the gaze of others, mimetic rivalry, and productive flows that constitute human subjectivity itself.
Read More →A Phenomenology of Masking: On Concealment, Recognition, and Authentic Selfhood
Exploring how marginalised people are compelled to hide their authentic identities to survive in oppressive societies, analyzing this psychological burden through Simone de Beauvoir's concept of gendered masking and Frantz Fanon's theory of racial objectification.
Read More →The Fog of Memory: A Phenomenology of Trauma
Phenomenology reveals trauma not as a set of symptoms but as a catastrophic rupture of lived experience that shatters temporal unity, alienates the body, transforms the world into a hostile environment, and severs the intersubjective bonds of trust, fundamentally exiling survivors from the shared reality of everyday life.
Read More →The Primacy of Perception: Merleau-Ponty’s Embodied Phenomenology
The essay provides a philosophical analysis of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's embodied phenomenology, demonstrating how the core concepts of the chiasm and the Flesh of the World dismantle Cartesian dualism by revealing the inseparable and reversible intertwining between the perceiving subject and the experienced world.
Read More →Heidegger, The Primacy of Existence
Heidegger's existential phenomenology is the study of what it truly feels like to be a person, examining our unique experience of being thrown into a world where we must constantly make choices, face death, and define who we are.
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Existential phenomenology is the study of what it truly feels like to be a person, examining our unique experience of being thrown into a world where we must constantly make choices, face death, and define who we are.
Read More →The Phenomenology of Narrative
The phenomenology of narrative is the study of how stories present themselves to consciousness and actively structure the lived experience and meaning-making processes of the reader or teller.
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Phenomenology is the study of how things appear to us in our direct, conscious experience, trying to describe the world exactly as we live it, without any scientific theories or assumptions.
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