The Base Camp

Attention is an Art Form

By Adam Robbert

Askēsis & Perception

Notes from my dissertation defense

Recent posts

A Request for Your Patronage

I’m turning on paid subscriptions and opening new opportunities for commissioned work, but I am keeping all posts freely available to everyone.

Jun 17•Adam Robbert

Dissertation Defense Video + Digital Essay

Jun 4•Adam Robbert

Humanities Guy Tries Claude Design

I set the new tools to work on the tyranny of awful Word files

Apr 30•Adam Robbert

Perceptual Learning and the Necessity of Form

A certain reading of Plato inflected on the idea of affordances.

Mar 27•Adam Robbert

Thinking is Creating

A description of thinking, via negativa, using Henri Bergson’s account of memory and perception—a thinking enabled by ekstasis, theōria, and poēsis.

Aug 1, 2025•Adam Robbert