Work as obligation, identity, and trap. Essays on anti-work thought, the ethics of labor, and what employment costs beyond wages.
Pronatalism is not a natural or default human stance but a deeply embedded ideology. This essay unpacks the cultural, religious, and economic machinery that drives the unexamined imperative to procreate.
Rising rates of mental illness are not mere chemical imbalances, but a rational response to the alienation inherent in the modern condition.
Pronatalism is not a natural impulse but a constructed ideology. This essay unpacks the cultural, religious, and economic machinery that coerces procreation.
If God is all-loving and all-powerful, how can we justify creating new beings into a world rife with suffering? This essay questions theological defenses of procreation in light of the problem of evil.
Is non-existence preferable to a life of absurdity? We pit Camus, Sartre, and Cioran against each other on the question of birth.
David Benatar’s asymmetry argument posits that coming into existence is always a harm because the absence of pain is good, but the absence of pleasure is merely not bad. This essay critically examines his argument.
Pronatalism is not a biological imperative but a deeply ingrained ideology. This essay unpacks the cultural, religious, and economic machinery that treats procreation as a default setting for human life.
Rising rates of mental illness and alienation in late modernity are not merely social or political problems; they are existential symptoms of a condition that antinatalist philosophers argue is inherent to conscious existence itself.
Rising mental distress and alienation in late modernity are not merely societal failings but experiential evidence for the antinatalist claim that suffering is an intrinsic feature of sentient existence.
To be is to be condemned to meaninglessness. An existentialist reading of the ethics of birth, from Sartre to Cioran.