Lexicon The End of Meaning: Illiteracy, Digital Addiction, and Civilizational Collapse Extending Charlotte Birch's 1982 thesis and warning: when literacy collapses, consciousness degrades from reasoned thought to tribal emotion and control. By Dean Bowman • 14 min read
Shape Botchan (坊っちゃん) Botchan is Natsume Sōseki’s 1906 novel about a Tokyo man exiled to rural Matsuyama who can’t reconcile his urban identity with provincial obligation. By Dean Bowman • 2 min read
Shape Liminality Liminality is the threshold state—neither here nor there, between what was and what will be. By Dean Bowman • 2 min read
Shape Cruel Optimism Cruel optimism describes attachment to something you desire that actually prevents you from flourishing. By Dean Bowman • 2 min read
Shape The Nature of Pseudo-Intellectual Rigor How subjective preference becomes presented as objective truth. The performance of analytical thinking without its substance or merit. By Dean Bowman • 3 min read
Shape Third Space The third space is where hybrid identities resist reduction to either origin. The spaces where something else emerges, beautiful and new. By Dean Bowman • 2 min read
Poetry Alice Askew An usual prose poem about displaced furniture, streaming rabbit holes, and a missing cat. By Dean Bowman • 2 min read
Poetry Arising A morning routine becomes an exploration of modern alienation. When life becomes unlivable, sometimes the only authentic response is to watch it all burn in rebellion. By Dean Bowman • 2 min read
