A New Cosmist Moment: “Paradigm breakthroughs always begin with calls to great, even fantastical endeavors—to ‘storm the heavens,’ as Fyodorov once implored his followers to do. Even if Cosmism’s attempts at articulating a human project were kooky in certain respects, a great deal of tangible scientific progress emerged from its admirers. New, totalizing theories of…
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Tinnitus, Synesthesia, and Kantian Conditions
The Psuedoanalysis blog on tinnitus and Kantian conditions: “Rust Cohle from season 1 of True Detective suffers from synethesia, a properly Kantian condition. “He tastes colors, sees sounds, etc. For this condition, the senses are mixed or associated with one another without natural limits. This is, as I have pointed out elsewhere, part of what…