Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsOf Mourning RitualLike many of my ilk, I’ve bucked tradition and its rituals. I’m a free spirited intellectual, after all! A philosopher, no less, who’s…6 min read·Apr 4, 2024----
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsDerrida, Bitcoin, & the Play of Value (or Cryptocurrency as the Deconstruction of Money)The reigning economic system relies on the assumption of its own naturalness to deflect any possible critique. “This is just the way things…13 min read·Mar 25, 2024----
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsTowards an Ecology of BeingThere are not first things and then interactions with other things. All things are intertwined with others from the get go—not later, not…10 min read·Mar 25, 2024--1--1
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsWhat Is Pleasure, Anyway?Despite the fact that pleasure is an experience everyone has surely had, it remains oddly difficult to define. Or maybe it’s precisely…8 min read·Feb 6, 2024----
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsThe Grammar of Liquid in the Films of John CassavetesTo watch Cassavetes’ films is to learn a new grammar of the moving image and its sense. As viewers, we can’t rely on identification: we are…9 min read·Dec 23, 2023----
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsWhat It Is to Read Philosophy: Of Birdsongs & Inhabiting Different WorldsPhilosophers don’t all see the same world then offer their own perspective. They see—they inhabit—different worlds. Like art and…9 min read·Dec 23, 2023----
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsThe Push & Pull of It All: Magnetism, Mercury, CharismaOften, we imagine the world’s variety of bodies—human, animal, vegetal, geological—as discrete. Just look: we can see their limits clearly…10 min read·Dec 23, 2023----
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsThe Body Between Us: Surfing Music’s Emergent BodyHow do musicians playing together know when, what, and how to play their part? After all, a song is not a moral code; it’s not a police…9 min read·Nov 2, 2023--6--6
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsThe Delirium of EmpiricismHear the word empiricism and you probably conjure images of scientific rigor, of rationality. I don’t believe in god or qi or mysticism. I…5 min read·Sep 18, 2023----
Daniel CoffeeninReading the Way of ThingsThe Event of Cinematic Sense in the Films of PT Anderson (with Reference to “Clueless,”…Despite its seemingly familiar territory — young love in a summer hang out flick — Licorice Pizza is an odd film. If you read reviews, the…17 min read·Jun 27, 2022----