NN literary & philosophical essays · Vol. I

The archive

16 essays · 4 collections
No. 02 · Summer 2026
Worldmaker
on doubling, negation, imagined communities
Forthcoming
01 Cognition does not happen only in the brain.
02 A passion is a kind of knowledge the body keeps for itself.
03 The reading mind borrows the gestures of the reading body.
04 To feel is already to interpret.
No. 03 · Spring 2026
The Mirror’s Knowledge
on reflection, self-reference, doubling
Forthcoming
01 A mirror is a surface that argues back.
02 Self-reference and the limits of reading oneself.
03 Hamlet stages his own audience.
04 The double image and the failure of unity.
No. 04 · Summer 2026
Theaters of Time
on drama, history, performed time
Forthcoming
01 History is the play we cannot stop performing.
02 The chorus knows what the protagonist forgets.
03 Time on stage and time in the audience are not the same time.
04 Curtain calls and the ethics of the ending.