A Dip into the Forests of the Brain
Neuroscience, neurons, consciousness.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
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.”
How to Live Together: Lessons from Algeria
Albert Camus’s Algerian Chronicles, Pierre Bourdieu’s photo-book Picturing Algeria, and Denis Guénoun’s moving family biography, A Semite, invoke lessons on how to live together well.
Against Common Sense
Rei Terada’s "Looking Away" has given us a grammar for the feeling of wanting to escape from something unfixable.
Introducing “No Crisis”
In "No Crisis," we hope to show that the art of criticism is flourishing, rich with intellectual power and sustaining beauty, in hard times.
An Unabashed Tour d’Horizon: Media in the 20th Century
Can deconstructing and reassembling notions of “media” and “art” lead to a new language of things?
A Static Form of Remembrance
Simon Critchley’s first novel is a postmodern, virulently metafictional blend of essay, autobiography, apocalyptic revelation, and historical examination.
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