Jon MacCaull's notepad

The Myth of the One

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In contemporary Western capitalist society, the myth of “the one” is pervasive. This is the persistent belief that given a functional socio-...

Organisms Under Threat

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To live in the modern world is to exist in a state where every breath is painful and where every motion is inhibited by heavy oppression. It...

Some of the (Many) Limitations of Affinity Designer

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I've been using Serif's Affinity Designer for about six months now, having been forced out of the Adobe ecosystem due to it being fi...

The Weird and the Eerie of Swing You Sinners!

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There's a peculiar feeling one gets when, after a long time absent, one feels oneself pulled into a familiar orbit. Not that there is an...

The End of Design

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In Arthur C. Danto's After the End of Art , he describes his assessment of the state of contemporary art: quite simply, art felt like it...

Totalitarian Capitalism

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In The Origins of Totalitarianism , Hannah Arendt distinguishes totalitarianism form the more familiar forms of tyranny known to us as dicta...

Limbic Thinking Extended

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Previously I articulated some of my thoughts on a concept I termed limbic thinking  wherein I opposed the idea of thought being reducible to...
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