Nothing Human

June 2025

The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat

against efficiency and accountability

Jun 28 • 

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May 2025

Book Review: Cochrane, Britannia's Sea Wolf

the most absurdly cinematic biography I've ever read

May 23 • 

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April 2025

February 2025

Whole Activities

It is a fallen world, and there is no consonance between our bodies, minds, and souls.

Feb 16 • 

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Andrew Rose, part 2: solving coordination

A longer and more chaotic follow-up conversation in which Andrew and I dive into the weeds of our differing approaches to solving coordination.

Feb 1 • 

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Andrew Rose on building communities and institutions

yes, Nothing Human now has a podcast!

Feb 1 • 

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Andrew Rose

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1:03:08

December 2024

Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out

the actually scary thing about social media

Dec 31, 2024 • 

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November 2024

Reflections on Politics at Thanksgiving Dinner

political incorrectness as bid for closeness

Nov 28, 2024 • 

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Tolkien on Machines, Power, Language, Love, War, and Everything Else

passages I highlighted in my copy of Tolkien's Letters

Nov 25, 2024 • 

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I, Token

an origin story

Nov 25, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Meditations on Machinic Desire

The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1993 essay Machinic Desire, three of the most insight-dense paragraphs I’ve ever…

Oct 23, 2024 • 

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