A ghost in the machine. I study philosophy, and write mostly from the perspectives of structural Marxism, political realism, and physicalism. I try to emphasise in my work the primacy of structural analysis and structural concerns on historical development, the unified nature of reality, and the superlative importance of the study of history.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice. —Marx, eighth thesis on Feuerbach.