Debates

“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty windowpane, the past is something he could see but not touch … If he could break through that dusty …
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My favored plot of crime novels concerns a person (usually a woman) who is in mortal danger. Unknown forces try to kill her because she knows something she shouldn’t have …
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That every like is not the same, O Ceasar! The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon! William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Today we live in societies where real interpersonal relations have …
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The relationship between Michel Foucault and Philip Rieff is best understood through contrast rather than any direct interaction or influence. On the surface, they could hardly be more different. Foucault, …
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Slavoj Žižek’s recent provocation in The Philosophical Salon, “Why a Communist Must Assume that Life is Hell,” introduces a subtle but profoundly unsettling reimagining of the political and existential stakes …
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This essay begins, in its first part, by questioning the assumption that human agency is individual and identical with the activity of a pre-social core of conscious experience. Its second …
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To understand the reasons for the charade that played out in the Oval Office of the White House on February 28, it is advisable to look at what happened in …
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What does fascism look like from the standpoint of its racialized victims? My question here is inspired by Edward Said’s key 1979 essay, “Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims,” …
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Filippo Tomasso Marinetti, founder of Futurism in the early 20th century, figures as one of its “Patron-Saints” in Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimistic Manifesto (2023)[i]. This manifesto glorifies the techno-capital machine—“the engine …
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It has been said that history moves forward by its bad side. To radicalise this further, we could argue that history is advancing through its worse to the catastrophic side. …
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