Debates

In The Bad Guys 2 (Pierre Perifel, 2025), based on Aaron Blabey’s best-selling graphic novel series, DreamWorks Animation delivers more than a family-friendly movie; it presents, perhaps unintentionally, a parable …
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Not long ago, a case brought public attention to the potential negative impact of chatbots. Two parents sued an AI company, claiming that their children’s interaction with one of its …
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What does it mean to insist on burial when sovereignty demands extreme exposure, the gruesome spectacle of decomposition? What is it like to grieve under siege?

Antigone, in Sophocles’ eponymous …
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People of my generation, born in the late USSR, probably remember that the main political topic discussed with children back then was peace. When I think about it, I recall …
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What is Palestinian liberation? What kind of transformation does it entail? And what form of reason does it require? A fruitful exercise for thinking through these questions is to introduce …
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This paper is not a commentary on Nietzsche’s philosophy, nor an abstract reflection on his thought. In contrast to therapies that seek to restore the client to a previous state …
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In his studies on patients with aphasia, Lev Vygotsky observed that, despite their differences, they all shared a common difficulty: a deficit in abstraction. When asked to verbalize sentences like …
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In October 2022 we published in The Philosophical Salon a critique of Cedric Robinson’s landmark study, Black Marxism.[1] We took objection to Robinson’s claim that Marxism is a European ideology …
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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence simultaneously inscribes itself within the domains of science, art, and the paranormal. Yet, whether we are dealing with astrobiology, science fiction, or superstition, each of …
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As Slavoj Žižek often recalls, philosophy’s purpose is not to provide all the answers but to ask the right questions. If the question concerning warnings is one of them, it’s …
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