
I believe that life has meaning. We are not on earth by chance; we do not come from nowhere to go to nowhere. This is a statement; it cannot be proved.
Jacques Ellul
2022
I believe that life has meaning. We are not on earth by chance; we do not come from nowhere to go to nowhere. This is a statement; it cannot be proved.
Jacques Ellul
2022
We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
Aristotle
2022
Philosophy and psychedelics are both, in the broad sense, mind expanders. The relative infrequency of their convergence is therefore something of a mystery.
Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
2022
The universe is composed of windowless monads each locked away and screaming.
David Roden
2022
In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.
Aristotle
2022
Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense.
J.G. Ballard
2022
The rhythm is then the life, in the sense in which it can be said to be included within nature.
Alfred North Whitehead
2022
Snuff Memories is made up of multiple vignettes that read more like a prose poem than a work of narrative fiction. Like a sort of cut-up Cronenberg each segment is filled body horror and twisted imagery which at times portray an interesting portrait of a grim apocalyptic world.
Scattered throughout the text are some beautifully nightmarish aphorisms: “The universe is composed of windowless monads each locked away and screaming.”
However, Snuff Memories quickly goes from vivid nightmare to hazy dream. The experimental writing style of David Roden makes the vast majority of the book incomprehensible and sometimes rambling or repetitive.
The book has some kind of underlining philosophy which is lost on me. Perhaps that’s because I’m unfamiliar with the authors prior philosophical writings and the field of Post-humanism or maybe because of just how unclear the book is.
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
Gottfried Leibniz
2022
History proves nothing because it contains everything.
Emil Cioran
2021