Writing

Essays on psychoanalysis, AI, authorship, and the gap between understanding yourself and actually living.

On Medium

Essays published on Medium, where Google can find them. The complete archive, collected here.

The Pleasure of the Recursive Machine: On Loops, Language, and the Desire for Meaning 2025

We return to language models not for answers but for the recursive pleasure of the exchange itself.

The Willing Surrender: What We Really Want from AI 2025

On what we actually want when we hand our thinking over to a machine — and why the surrender feels so good.

The Subject Supposed to Write: A Lacanian Analysis of AI Writing Assistance 2025

Riffing on Lacan’s “subject supposed to know” to ask what happens when the subject supposed to write is a machine. Also hosted locally — see above.

The Illusion of AI Therapy: A Critical Examination of Its State and Limitations 2025

A critical examination of AI therapy — what it promises, what it actually delivers, and why the illusion of care is so convincing.

Do Our Tools Change Our Minds? 2025

On whether the tools we use reshape how we think — and whether that reshaping is something we chose.

Between Making and Reading: A Personal Exploration of Artificial Intelligence 2025

A personal exploration of what it means to make things and read things in an era where AI sits between the two.

Fragments from the Mirror: An Attempt at Honest Reflection 2025

An attempt at honest self-reflection — the kind that resists the temptation to turn introspection into performance.

On AI, Psychoanalysis, and the Mediated Self 2025

How AI exposes the fragility of our belief in unique subjectivity.