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Why You Shouldn’t Share Your Personal Life on Social Media
Living in Byung-Chul Han’s Society of Intimacy
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Rahul Samaranayake
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February 2024

Contingency & Mechanical Evil | The Philosophy of Death Note
Light Yagami is the Lacanian Pervert
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Rahul Samaranayake
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January 2024

On Studying Strange Loops
How can animate beings come out of inanimate matter?
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Rahul Samaranayake

November 2023

We’re All OnlyFans Models
Living in Byung-Chul Han’s Transparency Society
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Rahul Samaranayake
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October 2023

God in Pain
A Letter to Euwyn Goh on Ontological Incompleteness
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Rahul Samaranayake
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September 2023

Why You Should Give Up on Your Dreams
Subjectivity under Byung-Chul Han’s achievement-society
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Rahul Samaranayake

August 2023

Why Self-Help Is Making You a Slave
Do not make yourself the existential project of your life; that’s a sign of defeat.
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Rahul Samaranayake

July 2023

The Metaphysical Case for Love
Love has to be rescued from the love-industrial complex
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Rahul Samaranayake

April 2023

Love Is Violent; Love Is Mundane
The truth of love lies in the contradiction where two fully assume “the fall”
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Rahul Samaranayake
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March 2023

Why Love Matters
It is love, not sex, that needs liberation.
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Rahul Samaranayake

February 2023

No Feeling Is Final, So Just Keep Going
Human beings aren’t a destination, Rilke says; therefore, society isn’t one either.
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Rahul Samaranayake
Masculinity and Nothingness
You become a man instead of being born one.
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Rahul Samaranayake
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