"How do we think about a new political imaginary that is connected to, yet distinct from, technology?"

From The Philosopher,  vol. 112, no. 2 (" Violence ") If you enjoy reading this, please consider becoming a patron  or making a small...

"Hope is not only an educational practice, it is about social change and collective struggle. Hope is fundamentally social."

"The criteria we use to discuss science and pseudoscience are incredibly context dependent."

"If ideologies are cultures, they need to be learned. You can convert in and out of them, just as with religions."

"Everything has been sorted and segregated so that people of different political parties have no opportunities to engage one another."

"If you think of meaning simply in semantic, verbal terms, you’re missing out much of what goes on in language."

"I try to show that civil disobedience emerged within a civil rights movement that was deeply in conversation with anti-colonial movements."

"The burden of philosophy is to provide the resources to tell ourselves stories so we can subject ourselves to self-scrutiny." 

"Our unfreedom under capitalism stems from how the purpose of our economy, of our life-sustaining activities, is already decided."

"I do think panpsychism is a picture of the world that is better than most for our mental and spiritual health!"

"One of the greatest challenges of the Critique of Pure Reason is that it asks us to rethink what we mean by ‘objectivity’."

"We had a really egalitarian relationship, and I have not found that to be the case too often with male academics."

"Concepts are fundamentally determined by their relations to one another, so it’s hard to tinker with them in isolation."

"I aspire to do philosophy in the world, recognizing human finitude, conceptual and perceptual limitations, and bias."

"We may have done amazing things with the rational mind in the centuries since Descartes, yet there is still pain, anxiety, and depression."

"I sense that humanisation is the problem as much as the solution because it masks efforts at domination."

"I have no interest in arguing that memoir is actually philosophy and philosophy is actually memoir. I’m happy to cannibalise both."

"The images and the ideals about how our body should be are strongly dependent on existing inequalities and discriminatory practices."

"We have lots to question anew around exoanthropology, especially on the nature of persons and normative structures involved in personhood."