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.

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.