In Praise of Gardens
David E. Cooper reviews Damon Young's "Voltaire’s Vine and Other Philosophies: How Gardens Inspired Great Writers."
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
The State of Surveillance
"We didn’t particularly set out to write a book about state-sponsored surveillance."
How the Humanities Will Save the World
Read a book, change the world.
Of Labor and Human Bondage: Spinoza, Marx, and the “Willing Slaves” of Capitalism
The relationship between Marx and Spinoza is a profoundly anachronistic one.
Say That Again? Making Sense of Noise
Contributor Lawrence English on Greg Hainge’s "Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise" and "Hillel Schwartz’s Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond"
The Symbol Is Dead, Long Live the Symbolic
According to Warren Breckman, revolutionary romantic philosophers such as Slavoj Žižek are practicing a form of “Christian-bolshevism” that has lost its way.
Every Which Way but Loose
Accelerationism is picking up speed as a new way to challenge the dominant system.
The Human in University Education
A meditation on how we organize and produce knowledge at the university, and the need for study of study.
Disconnecting Acts: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman Part II
Part II of a two-part interview with one of Europe’s foremost thinkers, Zygmunt Bauman.
Casaubon’s Humanities
James Turner’s Philology makes a case for the comparative mode that gave birth to the modern humanities — but what does his argument say for the state of the humanities now?
Facing the Intolerable
Jacques Rancière and how a new politics of aesthetics disrupts the way we reduce violence into mediated forms.
Disconnecting Acts: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman Part I
Part I of a two-part interview with one of Europe’s foremost thinkers, Zygmunt Bauman.
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