Brave New Worlds
The origin of the filmed work of art.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
Stayed | Freedom | Hallelujah
Habeas Viscus is a book that offers us a vital framework for imagining a world where race — where human life — might be otherwise than it is.
Self, with or without Selfies
A self is not a physical object. There isn't a little homunculus inside you or a mini-person sitting inside the mini-cab of a mini-crane moving your limbs.
We Lie About Love
Lary Wallace Interviews Clancy Martin on his new book, "Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love "
Three Contemporary Spinozas
A Spinozist politics? Mathematics? Posthumanism? Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza is, as Hasana Sharp points out, a "philosopher of many posthumous births."
A Dip into the Forests of the Brain
Neuroscience, neurons, consciousness.
Searching for Foucault in an Age of Inequality
Can Foucault be blamed for an anti-human neoliberal age of inequality?
European (Union) Nihilism
Syriza’s election in Greece signals a response to the European Union’s latent nihilism — one that Nietzsche and Heidegger both foresaw.
On the Notebooks of Count Giacomo Leopardi
Leopardi's "Zibaldone assembles an argument for the necessary unhappiness of the human condition, at least in advanced cultures."
Utopia and Its Discontents
On the Charlie Hebdo murders, the future of Europe, the Ukraine, capitalism, and the West.
What Is to Be Done?
Knox Peden on "The History Manifesto" by Jo Guldi and David Armitage.
Zen Again: Reconsidering D.T. Suzuki
D.T. Suzuki was “one of the most culturally influential Asians of the twentieth century.”
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