Debates

The acceleration of the “emergency paradigm” since 2020 has a simple yet widely disavowed purpose: to conceal socioeconomic collapse. In today’s metaverse, things are the opposite of what they seem. …
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If cats are conscious but not self-conscious—that is, if they do not split experience in two and constitute an inner self which stands at one remove from all other perceptions—they …
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In his Philosophy of History, Hegel provided a wonderful characterization of Thucydides’s book on the Peloponnesian war: “his immortal work is the absolute gain which humanity has derived from that …
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This year, May 8 Victory in Europe (VE) Day celebrations, commemorating the Allied powers’ formal acceptance of Germany’s unconditional surrender in 1945, will be marred by another war in Europe. …
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A few days ago, while catching up with a friend on the phone, I mentioned that I was hosting a young woman from Ukraine in my Toronto home. Her immediate …
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Above is our cat Oliver, in a photograph made by my wife Loret. Oliver is four years old. He takes to visitors, though he can be skittish, and they take …
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Democracies civilise societies, turn enemies into adversaries, channel conflicts and neutralise violence. This does not mean that there are not deep differences and rifts in them, but only that we …
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CASTRATION HERE, CASTRATION THERE, CASTRATION EVERYWHERE

Weeks ago, the Ukrainian President Zelensky addressed Russian soldiers in Russian, promising them safety and decent treatment if they were captured or surrendered to …
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In 1920, Freud presented a new psychoanalytic understanding of humans in his work Beyond the Pleasure Principle. His approach became more pessimistic. According to his previous view, the pleasure principle …
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The dust well and truly settled on the latest elections in the US and UK and still struggling through a pandemic that has been used to depoliticize a global population, …
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