self

A genealogy of the self, from the given to the dissolved

Feb 11 • Matt

The Liquefaction of Being: Materialism, Technology, and the Dissolution of the Self

In earlier essays I traced the education system and the kind of person it produces (an employable subject for “liquid modernity”) and materialism’s…

Dec 21, 2025 • Matt

Secularized Worship

The Shape of the Container

Dec 18, 2025 • Matt

The Invention of the Confessing Animal

Why Augustinian Christianity won

Dec 17, 2025 • Matt

Know Thyself: The Kingdom Within

Early Christian Psychology Before Paul and Augustine

Dec 17, 2025 • Matt

Know Thyself: Through What?

Wittgenstein and Heidegger on the Limits of Self-Knowledge

Dec 17, 2025 • Matt

Know Thyself: No Self

Daoist Effortlessness, Nietzschean Unmasking, and Indigenous Relationality

Dec 17, 2025 • Matt

Know Thyself: Gurdjieff, Kierkegaard, Eckhart

Pt 1: Greek vs Christian

Dec 16, 2025 • Matt

Know Thyself: Confucian, Buddhist, Hindu

Buddhist, Confucian, and Hindu Alternatives to the Western Self

Dec 15, 2025 • Matt

Know Thyself: Greek vs Christian

Greek Self-Knowledge and the Christian Invention of the Interior

Dec 15, 2025 • Matt

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