Liam Gillick explores the inescapable entanglement of contemporary art and philosophy. Through the figures of two fictional artists — one claiming to escape theory, the other striving to inhabit it — he reveals a paradox: artists are always both inside and outside philosophical discourse. He shows how both remain caught within philosophy’s terrain. Contemporary art thrives in this tension, endlessly “becoming” - navigating between guiding theories and open creative terrain.

What does it mean to call our era the Anthropocene, an age defined by “humanity” as a geological force? This essay interrogates that name and the universal “we” it assumes. Tracing the entanglements of colonialism, slavery, racial capitalism and environmental extraction, it offers a philosophical counterhistory of the human and its others. Drawing on decolonial thought and philosophical genealogy, it asks whether rethinking our past might open the possibility of a more just e

This essay advances a Marxist feminist claim that the family is the capitalist form of appearance of unwaged reproductive labour. Using a Hegelian-Marxist method centered on capital’s necessary appearances, it shows how the family mystifies, privatizes, and extracts reproductive labour. Revisiting Marx’s critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, it argues that the family is necessitated by capital and concludes by calling for its abolition and the socialization of reproductive

In this review, Nishok G U discusses Ben Ware's book, On Extinction, which reimagines contemporary crises like climate collapse and political stagnation not as apocalyptic ends but as opportunities for radical renewal. Ware suggests that real transformation requires confronting 'the end' directly, embracing a process of 'revolutionary decreation'. But the review also highlights the unresolved tensions in Ware’s approach, particularly with regard to the question of political v

This essay explores the unstable boundary between nature and culture, showing how science, philosophy, and politics continually reshape what we call 'natural'. It shows how we continually reinterpret natural phenomena through cultural lenses and how this distortion shapes public responses to the climate crisis, turning a stark natural threat into a cultural dispute. It argues that truly confronting climate change requires rethinking what we mean by nature itself.

In this conversation, Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism. Challenging the view of Marx as a cold materialist, Wills reveals his deep ethical vision, one that is grounded in freedom, creativity, and collective self-determination. She argues that revolution is not chaos but humanity’s conscious effort to overcome alienation and shape a just world, where moral and historical progress unite in the struggle for genuine emancipation.

Miranda Anderson reviews Resistance, the exhibition and book, that explores a century of protest through photography. It captures the power of collective action and the persistence of hope. Moving from the Suffragettes to the Anti-Iraq War movement, Anderson reflects on how art, activism, and imagination can counter resignation in an age of digital distraction and rekindle belief in transformative change.

It is often thought that Marx, despite starting out as a philosopher, sought to break with philosophy in order to carry out his mature work. In this essay, Christoph Schuringa argues that Marx's overall project, culminating in Capital, is not concerned with replacing philosophy with some other enquiry, but to raise philosophy itself to its highest power and to actualize it. As a philosopher, Marx, far from carrying out any derivative work, sought to surpass his predecessors s

This essay traces the global journey of Neoplatonism across Europe, Africa and Asia and how it evolved through encounters with Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. From its origins in Alexandria to its translation and reinterpretation in Ethiopia, the Islamic world and Mughal India, Neoplatonism was not simply transmitted, but was transformed. The essay reveals how a single philosophical system was reshaped across linguistic and cultural borders by those who engaged with it.

Hannah Arendt’s experiences of exile, from Nazi Germany to the U.S., shaped her reflections on statelessness, belonging, and the limits of the nation-state. In this essay, Anna Argirò explores Arendt's urgent call to rethink human rights, citizenship, and politics beyond borders. In a world of walls and displacement, her thought invites us to imagine a political community grounded not in exclusion, but in plurality, responsibility, and shared humanity.

What does it mean to truly forgive and when is it morally right to do so? In this essay, Luke Russell examines the remarkable case of Abdirashid Abdi, a refugee who forgave his attacker and advocated for her leniency. Russell challenges our assumptions about justice, asks whether forgiveness can coexist with punishment, if compassion might sometimes carry risks and what role victims play in shaping the moral landscape of accountability.

Paul North presents Marx's Capital as a dynamic, multi-genre work that blends economics, philosophy, and satire, along with tools from German idealism and political critique. Marx’s first volume lays out a theory of value, a social force produced in labor that structures life under capitalism. Though rooted in 19th-century England, its insights extend globally. Marx challenges the system’s apparent inevitability, offering a framework to understand capitalism’s operations and