Immanuel Joseph's Blog

“We were supposed to take on the world,
But every day pulled us further…
We’ve gotten used to live in a world
That doesn’t want us around!
Yeah
Torn apart
Yeah
Torn apart”

– Avatar

“While the human mind acts as a relation-factory seeking spiritual intimacy or philosophical meaning, the “Real” remains a unilateral force that refuses to participate in, or be captured by, these mental fictions.”

– NotebookLM

“The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.”

• Cannibal Metaphysics