The Tyrannies of Abstractions

The seductive perils of seeing human beings as instances of categories

Dec 21, 2024

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*MidJourney prompt: “A surreal digital painting of a lone human figure standing in front of towering classical busts that emerge from swirling, cloud-like fractal forms.”*

You, reader, are not actually you - not first and foremost, anyway. You might think of yourself as an individual, with a name and a body and a life story and so on, but your true existen…

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