"Philosophy, Memoir, and Revelation": A Conversation with Andy West
"I have no interest in arguing that memoir is actually philosophy and philosophy is actually memoir. I’m happy to cannibalise both."
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Rivka Weinberg
- 7 min
"Death is Overrated": An Essay by Rivka Weinberg (Keywords: Time; Meaning; Religion; Mortality)
"Regarding meaning, death just does what time would do eventually anyway, but perhaps more mercifully."
"Violence": An Essay by Eraldo Souza dos Santos (Keywords: Politics; Structures; Domination; Racism)
"Violence cannot be understood only through the gesture of the blow, but equally through the systemic suffering that permeates our lives."
Jana Bacevic
- 10 min
"Reality": An Essay by Jana Bacevic (Keywords: Truth; Anthropology; Bruno Latour; Climate Change)
Reality is not in people’s heads as much as it is created through the interaction of specific groups of people in specific times and places.
Robin Celikates
- 11 min
"Borders": An Essay by Robin Celikates (Keywords: Refugees; Nationalism; Pandemic; Critical Theory)
"A border is never just a border, a gate to be opened or closed at will."
"Can Our Bodies Ever Be Good Enough?" Clare Chambers in conversation with Brian D. Earp
"The images and the ideals about how our body should be are strongly dependent on existing inequalities and discriminatory practices."
"Have We Finally Become Ghosts in the Machine?" An Essay by Brad Evans & Chantal Meza
"We have been rightly suspicious about the possibility of technological enslavement and how we may end up authors of our own extinction."
Alexandre Leskanich
- 23 min
"On the Feeling of Some Essential Failure": A Review of In Praise of Failure by Costica Bradatan
"We can only ever become, at best, more perfect failures: failures who finally understand the failures they are."
Briana Toole
- 10 min
"Objectivity": An Essay by Briana Toole (Keywords: Epistemology; Methodology; Race; Power; Truth)
"If objectivity is little more than a shield to protect the interests of the powerful, then what does this mean for the pursuit of truth?"
Jessica Whyte
- 10 min
"Market": An Essay by Jessica Whyte (Keywords: Neoliberalism; Capitalism; Democracy; Freedom; Peace)
"What is a market if markets can over-ride the democratic political process and determine the priorities to which nations must conform?"
Yarran Hominh
- 11 min
"Unfreedom": An Essay by Yarran Hominh (Keywords: Agency; Liberation; Pragmatism; Non-Ideal Theory)
"Unfreedom is not just a matter of states of the world, but how the world affects and shapes how we think, feel, and act."
Peter Wolfendale
- 36 min
"The Weight of Forever": Peter Wolfendale reviews What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
"I don’t think we owe the future anything, strictly speaking, and this is why the future can be so exciting."
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