Debates

In July 2022, the Midjourney platform was still at an embryonic stage and only accessible to few. Back then, I wrote an article (or, rather, two articles) on the topic. …
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Perhaps the best way to grasp the meaning of our New Normal is to frame it as the irreversible paradigm shift towards “crisis capitalism”. The key macroeconomic implication is that …
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In 1875, German embryologist and zoologist Oscar Hertwig discovered that fertilization happens when an ovum and a sperm merge. It was an incredible discovery, and one from which the conclusion …
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In a recent article for Sublation Magazine, Slavoj Žižek outlines Rouselle and Murphy’s argument that “ChatGPT is an unconscious,” which means that, through its stupidities and its slips, ChatGPT actually …
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Mysticism is hiding in plain sight. One can search for it in a desert or atop a mountain and perhaps find it there with incomparable starkness. But it is everywhere. …
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Of the countless questions that we can ask ourselves, there are some that have the power to make us very uncomfortable. By this I do not mean that we simply …
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I’m calling it: we’ve won this war. By “we,” I mean normal people who want normal things: community, connection, creativity, with a bit of dancing on the side. By “war,” …
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Israel’s outgoing Council General to New York, Asaf Zamir, has tied his departure to the mass protests in the country, stating that “what we see today in Israel is an …
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On December 15, 2021, at a rally endorsing the proposed Stop W.O.K.E. Act that he would sign into law in April of 2022, Governor Ron DeSantis declared: “We won’t allow …
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Agamben’s “Configuration of Facts” and Foucault’s “Regime of Truth”

In “The Central Bankers’ Long COVID,” Fabio Vighi observes that the contemporary paradigm of government by crisis fosters a rhetoric of …
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