James Simpkin's Micro-LiberationsKant and the Art of BMW Maintenance: From German Idealism to German Engineering.Introduction4 min read·Jun 8, 2021----
James Simpkin's Micro-LiberationsMetaphysical Logic and The Interpretation of DreamsIn his On Dreams (1901), Sigmund Freud puts forward the fascinating theory that we do not sleep in order to dream but that we dream in…3 min read·May 1, 2021--1--1
James Simpkin's Micro-LiberationsPointing Towards Christ: Prefigurations of Christian Teleology in the Early Greek ThinkersIntroduction3 min read·May 1, 2021----
James Simpkin's Micro-LiberationsThe Hard Problem of ConscientiousnessRecently, a few of the online course makers I follow have been writing and vlogging about their experiences pursuing a viable and…3 min read·Apr 16, 2021----
James Simpkin's Micro-LiberationsKant’s Project in the Critique of Pure Reason and its Implications for Scientific TheoriesMy own understanding of Kant’s project is that he was trying to determine how it is possible that we can reason about phenomena about…2 min read·Mar 29, 2021--1--1
James Simpkin's Micro-LiberationsZarathustra’s Ape: How He Became What He WasThat morning, Peter* woke up feeling down again. Yet he dragged himself out of bed and headed to the marketplace to see the tightrope…6 min read·Jan 7, 2021----
James Simpkin's Micro-LiberationsNecro-Ethics Part 10. Skin in the Game: Drones & War without WarfareHaving now explored several key themes of Gregoire Chamayou’s critique of drone warfare in the previous sections of this digest, it is…3 min read·Dec 1, 2020----
James Simpkin's Micro-LiberationsNecro-Ethics Part 9. Mechanised Atrocity and the Death of the Subject‘A robot commits a war crime. Who is responsible?’ (Chamayou, 2015, p.210)2 min read·Nov 30, 2020----
James Simpkin's Micro-LiberationsNecro-Ethics Part 8. Drones and the Divine Right of Kings: Rousseau vs. HobbesA central theme of the previous posts in this exploration of Gregoire Chamayou’s Drone Theory (2015) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) has been the…3 min read·Nov 20, 2020----
James Simpkin's Micro-LiberationsIndieThinkers Annual Progress ReviewIn November last year I signed up for Justin Murphy’s IndieThinkers. My main reason for doing this was to give the final stretch of my…6 min read·Nov 14, 2020----