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"In Praise of Co-Authoring": An Essay by Matyáš Moravec and Peter West
"When it comes to research, the popular conception of lone scientific geniuses is off the mark; scientific progress requires collaboration."
Matyáš Moravec and Peter West
10 min read


"Racialization and Human Reality": An Essay by Lewis R. Gordon (Keywords: Race; Gender; Identity)
"To speak of the reality of race is not to speak of it in ontological terms as one would a chair, stone, or tautological algorithm."
Lewis R. Gordon
20 min read


"Messy Freedoms": A Conversation with Maggie Nelson (Keywords: Sex; Care; Responsibility; Motherhood
"While interdependency is a great fact, it does not actually tell us very much about what we are to do with it."
Maggie Nelson
21 min read


"Why Psychoanalysis?" by Amy Allen (Keywords: Rationality; Philosophy of Science; Freud; Foucault)
Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Philosophy, according to classical metaphysicians, begins in wonder: why is there something rather than...
Amy Allen
13 min read


"The Force of Scientific Authority" by Nima Bassiri (Keywords: Knowledge; Truth; Power; Trust)
"Trust in and adherence to scientific truth ultimately remains a moral norm, an expression of behavioural propriety. "
Nima Bassiri
16 min read


"Does the Heart Simply Want What the Heart Wants?" A Conversation with Amia Srinivasan
"We, as desirous creatures, are much more complex than the reigning ideology would have us believe."
Amia Srinivasan
20 min read


"The Future of Authority?": An Essay by Mladen Dolar (Keywords: Psychoanalysis; The Enlightenment)
"Authority, irreducible to both coercion and knowledge, cannot simply be done away with."
Mladen Dolar
14 min read


"Physics is Not an Exception": A Conversation with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
"There’s this wide gap between what I think empiricism should be, and the kind of empiricism I actually see in practice as a scientist."
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
19 min read


"The Time of Our Lives": A Conversation with Martin Hägglund (Keywords: Faith; Freedom; Society)
"There is not first an individual and then society, or the other way around. Rather, it is in our nature to be socially formed."
Martin Hägglund
13 min read


"When Viruses Help": An Essay by Michael Marder (Keywords: Bacteria; Biology; Evolution)
"We should problematize current political discourses that declare a 'war on the virus.'"
Michael Marder
5 min read


"Hopeful Ignorance": Linsey McGoey reviews A Passion for Ignorance by Renata Salecl
"It is not knowledge but rather ignorance that helps us to believe that new types of emancipation are someday possible."
Linsey McGoey
10 min read
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