Debates

Any attempt to think about things necessarily and repeatedly returns to a fundamental principle: between every entity and its possibility of existing, a necessary relation obtains. Whether we articulate this …
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Dan Nadasan is right to point out that the main shattering impact of the AI on our lives concerns the status of appearance.[1] In this context, we’ve got to introduce …
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I first saw Caravaggio’s (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,1571-1610) St Francis in Ecstasy, 1595 in the exhibition titled Caravaggio 2025 at the Palazzo Barberini Rome. Made in Rome when he was …
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Europe’s new “security‑first” agenda is usually presented as a direct response to Russian aggression. That story is emotionally powerful and politically convenient, but it hides a deeper shift. Europe is …
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At the end of 2025, Giovanbattista Tusa wrote to Françoise Vergès in one of his Letters to the Unknown, the second series of Planetary Conversations. He wrote as Vergès was immersed in making a film about …
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In the titanic dispute between humans and robots—a confrontation that never ceases to astonish us and that grows daily with new and unprecedented moral dilemmas—what stands out is the need …
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Man is an animal. But not just any animal. “Man does not live by bread alone.” He is a desiring creature. He is never content with the earthly here and …
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In Zootopia 2 (Jared Bush & Byron Howard, 2025), Hollywood once again entrusts its political intuitions to animals, as though nonhuman faces could soften the blows of contentious themes. The …
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Deharbe’s Catechism, which I was taught from an early age, begins thus:

Q: Who made you? A: God made me. Q: And why did God make you? A: To …
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I was recently in Naples for a conference, a marvelous city that I like to think of as “the Italy of Italy.” In one of its countless souvenir shops, most …
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