Tag: philosophy
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Crime and Punishment, Men and God
Despite having a highly curtailed social media presence, news has reached me that Dostoevsky is in. I am told White Nights, his early career novella, was a bestseller in the UK the year before last. More darkly in recent years, right-wing influencers like Jordan Peterson have used his work to push their reactionary manosphere ideology…
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Vilém Flusser’s project against death
War Office, 4 February 2026, © 2026 Bobby Crosby This year will mark the 35th anniversary since the death of the Prague-born philosopher and media theorist Vilém Flusser, whom I quoted in a previous essay last summer. It is perhaps cliché today to dig up pre-internet media theorists and watch them seemingly predict Instagram (as…
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