Debates

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If the subject is nothing other than that which is determined within the pre-articulated network of relations of power, regulatory institutions, language, and history — so that …
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The U.S. attack on Iran is but the latest in a dizzying array of global upheavals – ranging from geopolitical conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East to the Myanmar …
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Predictably, Iran is the next crisis in line. No sooner were we told to obsess over the latest unsealing of the Epstein files than our gaze was already redirected toward …
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Figure 1. Anselm Feuerbach, Orpheus und Eurydike, 1869. Belvedere, Vienna. Public Domain.

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‘— No, I Won’t Do That’

Meat Loaf’s I Would Do Anything for Love inspired social …
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When governments release politically explosive information, the explanation is almost always procedural: a law is passed, a deadline arrives, documents are reviewed, redactions are applied, publication follows. Officially, such choreography …
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The water in the lagoon was licking the stones of the Zattere. They say that acqua alta is handled well now, that the MOSE floodgates work. Yet, at the brickwork …
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Can we still see the wood for the trees? What we are living through is not a sequence of disconnected crises, but the weird consolidation of a debt‑saturated economic system. …
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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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