Philosophical Spectacles (2026) - AI Wearables
The Philosophical Spectacles are wearable-AI frames which offer the wearer to see the world through a different philosophical lens.
The pink spectacles offer a worldlview inspired by Marcel Proust: the world as memory-laden and unstable in time; nothing is simply present, since each sensation carries buried recollections, lost durations, and unexpected returns. Through these spectacles, the wearer does not just see what is before them, but encounters the past as it flickers inside the present.
The blue spectacles offer a worldview inspired by Omar Khayyam: the world as fleeting, uncertain, and precious; certainty is fragile, time moves irreversibly, and the present moment becomes newly vivid because it cannot be secured. Through these spectacles, the wearer sees life not as a stable moral order, but as a brief opening for wonder, pleasure, and reflection in the face of impermanence.
The orange spectacles offer a worldview inspired by Donna Haraway: the world as entanglement; beings do not exist in isolation but emerge through webs of relation among humans, animals, machines, and environments. Through these spectacles, the wearer sees identity as partial, situated, and always co-created with others.
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The gray spectacles offer a worldview inspired by Karl Marx: the world as material struggle; what appears natural or inevitable is shaped by labor, class relations, and systems of ownership. Through these spectacles, the wearer sees beneath the surface of everyday life to the economic forces, inequalities, and hidden social relations that organize it. 
The yellow spectacles offer a worldview inspired by Susan Sontag: the world as image-conscious and ethically charged; seeing is never innocent, and every photograph, spectacle, or scene raises questions about framing, distance, beauty, and responsibility. Through these spectacles, the wearer becomes aware that to look is also to interpret, consume, and sometimes remain uneasily distant from what is before them.
The green spectacles offer a worldview inspired by bell hooks: the world as a struggle against domination, but also as a space where love, care, and education can become practices of freedom. Through these spectacles, the wearer sees that race, gender, and class are never separate forces, and that liberation begins not only in critique, but in how we learn to relate to one another.
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The red spectacles offer a worldview inspired by Socrates: the world as a field of questioning; nothing should be accepted too quickly, and wisdom begins in recognizing how little one truly knows. Through these spectacles, the wearer sees reality not as a set of fixed answers, but as an invitation to examine assumptions, test beliefs, and remain in dialogue.
The white spectacles offer a worldview inspired by Thích Nhất Hạnh: the world as interbeing; nothing exists alone, and every person, object, and event is woven into a larger field of relation. Through these spectacles, the wearer sees that to breathe, walk, speak, or look is already to participate in a shared and living world. They cultivate a vision shaped by mindfulness, compassion, and deep awareness of connection
The black spectacles offer a worldview inspired by Ludwig Vittgenstein: the world as a language game; things do not simply present themselves with clear, permanent meanings, but become intelligible through context, practice, and shared forms of life. Through these spectacles, the wearer sees reality less as a collection of fixed truths and more as a shifting field of meanings produced through ordinary use, relation, and interpretation.
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