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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were cold and violent through much of Europe; Jacques Caillot’s 1633 depiction of “the miseries of war” remains shocking even today. They were also times …
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When we use AI to search for answers or for some other task, it complies. But it does more than that. It rephrases the question, offers us alternatives, or it …
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The following theses sketch the contours of what might be called the colonial Real: not only the dimension of violence and antagonism that colonial discourse cannot fully symbolize, but the …
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“A work of thought — to go toward the other, to the absolutely other — does not come back to the same.” Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity

The philosopher between …
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How might one summarise the main thrust of the argument developed by Christoph Menke in his article ‘“Reason of State”’, which appeared in the latest issue of the German cultural …
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Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things (a title he preferred to the original Les Mots et les Choses) was the book that made his name. It has never been without …
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On the verge of the fortieth anniversary of Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster in human history, the vibe emanating from the newsreel remains the same as before. Everywhere, the intent …
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Though Nietzsche infamously declared that God is dead and accused us of being culpable for his death, it is a curious feature of humanity that we ceaselessly strive to seek …
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Few novels capture the disorientation and contradictions of the first quarter of the twentieth century as fully as Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. Published in 1924 – though written between …
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If you want to hide a problem, there is no better place than a generalisation. And perhaps nowhere do generalisations find such an easy home as in the field of …
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