One Cevdet

Essays

One is Cevdet: essays in one place. The essays think through love and désir, the self and the Other, and what it means to dissolve into someone without disappearing. They read Lacan, Hegel, Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Žižek and Deleuze alongside lived experience, and turn to Camus and René Girard on absurdisme, to Foucault on the quantified heart of social media, and to Heidegger and Bergson on the suspended time of waiting.

Each essay starts from something felt, such as distance, silence or a message left unanswered, and works through it with philosophy rather than around it. The writing keeps its own voice: often lowercase, with concepts set apart in code type so they can be examined.

Everything here is written in English, and every piece has an address of its own, so it can be read, shared and returned to.

Essays

  1. the temporality of waiting: désir and the suspension of time

    Waiting in love as suspended time: désir and repetition through Lacan, Heidegger, Bergson and Radiohead's Let Down.

  2. useless optimization via neoliberal terminator of constant simulation

    How neoliberalism and social media turn love into self-optimization, read through Lacan, Žižek and Foucault, and what unquantified intimacy could be.

  3. paradox of self-dissolution in love

    Can the self dissolve into the Other without disappearing? Hegel's recognition, Nietzsche's amor fati and Beauvoir's critique of romantic love.

  4. the stranger and absurdisme: beyond static posture

    A reading of Camus' The Stranger against its petrified interpreters, through Hegel, Lacan, Foucault and René Girard's mimetic desire.

  5. reflection: love, désir and the unknowable Other

    Why love means giving what you don't have: Lacan's objet petit a, Žižek on falling, Hegel's mutual becoming and Deleuze's desiring-production.