Miskatonian

Miskatonian Beyond the Veil of Ordinary Understanding. A Magazine guided by instinct and intelligence across all domains of human inquiry.

The Miskatonian was brought about with the express purpose of being an outlet for the many ideas and concepts that exist in the world both mainstream and sometimes off the beaten path. As a platform, our mission is to provide a place of boundless discussion and push the Frontiers of philosophical discourse. Above all, we wish to service the truth. It is this hunger for innovative ideas and intelle

ctual discourse that drives The Miskatonian. However, responsible discussion requires a counterbalance and for The Miskatonian that is truth in the classical european sense. The essence of the Miskatonian is the exploration of all topics within the framework of the traditional eastern and western european discourse as it existed prior to the questioning of the desirability or moral underpinnings of their institutions. For us, the current state of those institutions does not diminish the goals that formulated their original establishment. As such, we seek to continue that tradition while avoiding the self-destruction that has been a hallmark of much of todays platforms.

Our Editor In Ch ief in conversation with Alex Priou from the University of Austin and the New Thinkery Podcast deep div...
04/03/2026

Our Editor In Ch ief in conversation with Alex Priou from the
University of Austin and the New Thinkery Podcast deep diving into political philosophy and it's ever increasing relevance.

Explore the depths of philosophy in our interview with Alex Priou. Discover his insights on Plato and beyond.

"I'm the last person who wants to tell women how to look. [...] Still, I feel it: when I see women with immaculate fake ...
15/02/2026

"I'm the last person who wants to tell women how to look. [...] Still, I feel it: when I see women with immaculate fake nails, eyelashes that defy gravity, and hairpieces that ignore every natural curve, I don't trust them. Not on what they say or how they act. It's instinctive, immediate. [...] Fake nails and eyelashes aren’t accessories. They’re signs pointing to an idealized self, a performative identity detached from tangible reality. Seeing them feels like witnessing a voluntary disconnection from truth." ~Dina-Perla Portnaar

Delve into The Glittered Mask: Epistemic Unease and the Performative Feminine on TikTok, challenging norms of appearance.

"The largest metanationals are no longer simple businesses; they are the new governing authorities. Robinson describes a...
29/01/2026

"The largest metanationals are no longer simple businesses; they are the new governing authorities. Robinson describes a global system where the Westphalian state is hollowed out into a subcontractor for private cartels. On Mars, this logic reaches its terminal point: a political laboratory where the only crime is interference with profit extraction, and sovereignty is defined by a biological monopoly over the very air the settlers breathe." Clifford Angell Bates

Explore Metanationals-Transnationals as a political form in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy and their role in corporate sovereignty.

"The Knight of Virtue... marks the dialectic’s comedic moment: the hysteric’s empty gesture, blind to its own complicity...
28/01/2026

"The Knight of Virtue... marks the dialectic’s comedic moment: the hysteric’s empty gesture, blind to its own complicity in sustaining the structure it criticizes. Unlike the Law of the Heart, which hallucinates universality, or the Beautiful Soul, which retreats from action, the Knight acts. But this action is futile, rigid, and performative... a Don Quixote of morality, swinging at windmills in pursuit of a truth that perpetually remains unactualized." ~Ilgin Yildiz

Explore Žižek's interpretation of Hegelian moral consciousness in The Vanishing Knight of Virtue. Discover key philosophical insights.

"We have begun to humanise machines even while we dehumanise ourselves. Imagine how much more we will read desire into o...
26/01/2026

"We have begun to humanise machines even while we dehumanise ourselves. Imagine how much more we will read desire into our technologies as those technologies increasingly simulate human thought... In this rivalry between human beings and machines, we need to be absolutely clear on one thing: machines do not want anything. If we read desire into machines, we are wrong. If we continue to read desire into machines, we will go wrong." ~Duncan Reyburn

Duncan Reyburn challenges the "cyborg theocracy" by applying René Girard’s mimetic theory to AI. Discover why machines don't have desires—and why we must stop imitating them to reclaim our humanity.

"Whoever crosses into a new year without reordering attention doesn’t truly advance in time. It is a quiet withdrawal fr...
25/01/2026

"Whoever crosses into a new year without reordering attention doesn’t truly advance in time. It is a quiet withdrawal from oneself, where renewal often conceals a subtler form of disappearance. A promise doesn’t predict the future; it decides what will no longer remain possible. Only those who relinquish possibilities can bring something into being. In the new year, attention matters more than intention—it is the site where moral life takes form. Will you bear the weight of what remains, or repeat the noise?" ~ Dina-Perla Portnaar

The Threshold of Refusal examines how we often evade the true essence of beginnings in the New Year. Are you ready to confront it?

"What it means to be human is possibly more about what humans can maintain of their humanity rather than what modificati...
25/01/2026

"What it means to be human is possibly more about what humans can maintain of their humanity rather than what modifications they make to their bodies. As Andrew Ryan repeats, 'a man chooses, but a slave obeys'. Jack discovers he has neither choice nor knowledge of who he is; up until that moment, he does not have humanity but only a simulacrum. Yet, fully modified, he possessed his most humanity. If we can hold on to empathy, technology will not take away our humanity ." ~ Clifton Knox

Examine Between Man and Slave: BioShock’s critique of the Great Chain, exploring themes of ambition and escape from limitations.

“Man ought to work in the service of rest. Our very nature confirms such a thing: while we are at work, we eagerly await...
21/01/2026

“Man ought to work in the service of rest. Our very nature confirms such a thing: while we are at work, we eagerly await the arrival of leisure time and holidays. The money we earn, we wish to turn into gifts and food and drink for celebrations.” Pavlo S**a

In a world filled with noise, learn the importance of leisure and how it can enrich your life and restore your soul.

Yet the fourteenth century was also a time of intense crisis and transformation. Secular rulers challenged the papal mon...
21/01/2026

Yet the fourteenth century was also a time of intense crisis and transformation. Secular rulers challenged the papal monarchy; the Black Death and economic upheavals undermined feudal relations.” ~ Clifford Angell Bates

Explore the concept of Liberty Before Locke and its implications on contemporary thought in the context of medieval moral order.

"We live in the golden age of informed ignorance: never have humans known so much raw data, yet understood so little.We ...
19/01/2026

"We live in the golden age of informed ignorance: never have humans known so much raw data, yet understood so little.
We scroll through infinite facts with godlike speed and peasant comprehension, confidently wrong, luxuriously stupid, cocooned in algorithmic echo chambers that reward outrage over insight.
This is not accidental ignorance. It is engineered.

And it is winning." ~ Aleksandar Todorovski

In an era of info abundance, why do we know everything yet understand nothing? Dive into hostile epistemology, algorithmic fragmentation, AI-driven fallacies, and the ignorance crisis fueling polarization and false beliefs. Provocative essay.

"Only Marxism can offer the practical, political and intellectual compass for the left to remain true to egalitarian and...
16/01/2026

"Only Marxism can offer the practical, political and intellectual compass for the left to remain true to egalitarian and emancipatory politics and not fall sway to reactionary individualism in either liberal or fascist forms." ~ Daniel Tutt

Daniel Tutt takes apart Nietzsche’s hidden reactionary side in a raw conversation. From parasitic readings and ressentiment to why the left keeps falling for him—class struggle gets center stage. Shadows of the Overman.

"What began as a method of inquiry has quietly become a worldview, and what was meant to free observation has begun to p...
09/01/2026

"What began as a method of inquiry has quietly become a worldview, and what was meant to free observation has begun to police it."~Narmin Khalilova

Explore how scientism has quietly replaced religious dogma with data-driven certainty, echoing the fanaticism it once opposed. A nuanced critique defending open inquiry, authentic spirituality, and humility in the face of uncertainty against Yuval Noah Harari's techno-vision.

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