Essays
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The Animal Required to Explain Itself
The essay begins with the image of a dog chasing its tail to examine how humans act from impulse and explain themselves only afterwards. It explores how self-understanding does not remove our animal drives, but adds a second layer of judgment, justification, and responsibility.
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Writing as Perception
The essay examines writing as an extension of a fundamentally ambivalent and perspectival way of perceiving the world. It explores why literature need not resolve otherness, contradiction, or uncertainty, and why promises of moral clarity or redemption can falsify the experience they are meant to explain.
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Identity and Social Significance
The essay examines how modern societies encourage individuality while limiting it to forms that remain socially and systemically compatible. It asks why social significance increasingly arises not from lived function within a community, but from psychological identity work, self-regulation, and continual efforts to stabilise fragmented realities.
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Guinea Pigs and the Universe
The essay compares human emotional reactions with the sudden, whole-body movements of guinea pigs. It explores how fear, joy, conflict, and calming down can be understood less as disorder than as signs of a living system responding to safety, attachment, and scale.