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pete wolfendale

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pete wolfendale

@deontologistics

Wandering philosopher. Purveyor of Platonic heresy, Kantian computationalism, and Hegelian minimalism. (he/him/it which speaks). Also on the butterfly site.

Yokohama, Japan

deontologistics.substack.com

Born August 13, 1985

Joined April 2011

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pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
Nov 2, 2025
Obligatory pinned tweet: my new book, The Revenge of Reason, is available to purchase here: urbanomic.com/book/the-reven…
pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
Jul 10, 2025
I’ve been back on dating apps recently, and nothing lays bare the tenuous cliches holding your personality together than listening to yourself tell them same few anecdotes and expressing the same rote thoughts over and over with different people.
pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
Sep 15, 2025
Good news everyone! My long overdue second book - The Revenge of Reason - is currently at the printer and is now available for pre-order on the Urbanomic website (estimated to be sent out mid-October). Link below!
pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
Feb 26, 2021
I'm going to do the unusual thing here and defend the strongest metaphysical reading of the death drive I think is feasible. This is the version of it articulated by Deleuze in Difference & Repetition, which then bleeds into his work with Guattari in Anti-Oedipus.
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pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
May 29, 2025
I think people underestimate how comfortable Hegel would have been with neo-China arriving from the future.
pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
Oct 27, 2025
It exists!
pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
Jul 13, 2024
So much of Leftist political persuasion is trying to convince people that our goals are worthy *despite* the fact that many of those who share them are an absolute nightmare to deal with, personally speaking. I feel like we’re generally not honest enough about this.
pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
Dec 4, 2019
I can’t believe I’ve not come across this Turing quote before: “If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent."
pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
Sep 24, 2022
Guys, Kant had this one sorted a couple centuries ago: concepts without intuitions are sci-fi, intuitions without concepts are fantasy.
pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
May 14, 2025
I may have said this before, but the aspect of 90s accelerationism that I’m least enamored with is the emphasis on depersonalisation (dissolving oneself in the process). This is half D&G (ego imposition as repression-oppression) and half Bataille (ecstasis as sovereignty).
pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
Dec 21, 2020
Okay, I promised a quick introduction to the history of the terms 'metaphysics' and 'ontology', so I'll try to provide it in as concise a way as possible. However, this will involve going all the way back to the Presocratics, so you've been warned in advance.
pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
May 12, 2021
You're on a first date with someone, and they tell you their favourite book. Its title is a random collection of letters. You slowly come to the realisation that this is but one scenario in a vast combinatorial space searched by some alien force beyond your ken. You cannot leave.
pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
Mar 30, 2021
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pete wolfendale
@deontologistics
Jun 27, 2025
I still think the fundamental split in thinking about ethics, in Foucault’s sense as ‘care of the self’, is whether or not we see ourselves first and foremost as cybernetic systems to be sustained and stabilised or personal projects to be revised and realised.