Debates

In a recent article for The Philosophical Salon, Slavoj Žižek offers a number of well-trodden ideas on the relationship between ignorance and knowledge. In doing so, he shuts a window …
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“All true good carries with it conditions which are contradictory and as a consequence is impossible. He who keeps his attention really fixed on this impossibility and acts will do …
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Up until now, some of us have been desperately clinging to the hope that countries that are somehow associated with Socialism are better at containing the pandemic. I mean not …
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The first time I met Bernard Stiegler was at the Paris summer school hosted by the University of Kent in June 2016. There, he gave a seminar on the notion …
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In early June, after almost three months of sheltering in place that culminated in a tumultuous week of protests, clashes, and curfews, New York City started its phased reopening. It …
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This January I was in my philosophy class having an unexpected discussion about race. It was the first day of the semester. I had sent the syllabus around in December. …
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When the first humans gazed at the horizon with its moving clouds, play of light, and massive shadows over the mountains, their overwhelming feeling was that of awe. But inside …
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Traditional Marxists distinguished between Communism proper and Socialism as its first lower stage (where money and the state still exists and workers are paid wages, etc.). In the Soviet Union …
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Compelling criticism of democracy as a form of government has followed democratic transformations throughout history. Although democratic realities vary, the current pandemic is testing the adequacy of all our institutions. …
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There are friends, recurrent visitors, ghosts, and awe-inspiring evocations in one’s life. He embodies them all.

Why do we speak to the dead so often? On the eve of my …
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