The Logic of Addiction

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Category: Literature and Cultural Addiction

  • Midnight Mass and the Completion of Transcendence

    A Second Look Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass is often received as a religious horror story—a cautionary tale about fanaticism, blind faith, or the dangers of belief taken too far. Such readings remain trapped within a moral frame the series itself quietly abandons. Midnight Mass is not about the corruption of religion but about what religion…

  • Mary Shelly

    Frankenstein and the Collapse of the Unus Mundus before Modernity Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can be read as a decisive cultural drama in which an older symbolic vision of unity—articulated by figures such as Gerhard Dorn and later psychologized by C. G. Jung—breaks down under the pressure of modern, implicitly Hegelian consciousness. The novel stages the…

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    The Will to Power is not Nietzsche’s doctrine — it is Nietzsche’s laboratory. The Will to Power must not be approached as Nietzsche’s philosophical system. It is not a finished doctrine, nor even a unified book in the conventional sense. It is, rather, a laboratory of thinking in extremis—a record of concepts under pressure, written…

  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)

    Dracula and the Cultural Logic of Addiction Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) can be read as one of the earliest and most coherent cultural articulations of addiction—not as a pathology located in an individual brain, but as a systemic logic that reorganizes desire, identity, and social order. Long before addiction was framed in pharmacological or behavioral…