what is Margins?
Margins is a blog of philosophical essays about things (in the most general sense of the word) which do not fit neatly into conventional or established categories of descriptions.
Take, for example, a film review, except here on Margins I will be treating less the nebulous and ill-defined film itself, but everything surrounding it: the going-to-watch-the-film, the “originary” motivation to call what I just watched “a film,” me being uncomfortably aware of myself before certain scenes which I will recall with no small measure of distortion.
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Philosophically inclined readers will notice that many essays make use of a phenomenological language. Whilst I am indebted to, and endlessly inspired, by phenomenology, Margins is motivated first and foremost by a curiosity and a faithfulness towards phenomena. Its aim is neither to reinforce the institution of academic phenomenology, nor to limit the field of enquiry to simply fit what is or is not describable within the confines of existing phenomenologies.
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Essays here will often have their genesis in cursory and easy-to-dismiss observations about various situations: objects being frequently referenced in discourse next to my seeming inability to conjure up from them any coherent image, decisions being made seemingly with or without my express awareness of them, supposedly clarifying concepts seeming to bely a radical confusion. I follow these instincts until they reveal to me more abstract questions about power, meaning, and my role in this overall experience of discovery.
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