Explaining the Crisis through Jacques Lacan
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This account of Lacan’s discourse theory enables one to make sense of the discursive struggles currently occurring in global space. And once one has an intellectual... Read more.
Thomas Hobbes’s Philosophy Made Real
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Considering these “rights which make the essence of sovereignty,” it does not take too much of a mental stretch to conclude that we live at a time when these... Read more.
Truth-speaking and the Technocratic Cabal
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Truth-telling, or in ancient Greek, parrhesia, is something different. It is what one does when you tell or speak the truth exactly as you experience or perceive... Read more.
Emulating Odysseus Today
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Such attacks are bound to occur, virtually on a daily basis, such as the spectre of renewed lockdowns and mask mandates, alluded to above. This calls for resolute,... Read more.
Was Spengler Right After All?
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The only thing that the current, deliberately orchestrated onslaught against culture has in common with Spengler’s diagnosis, a century ago, of the demise of Western... Read more.
What People Overlook in the AI Debate
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As Dr Narayanan indicates, ChatGPT’s responses to some computer science examination questions he posed to it were spurious, but they were phrased in such a specious... Read more.
The Specter of Human Extinction
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A new genre in philosophy made its appearance not too long ago. It is called ‘extinction theory’ or the ‘philosophy of extinction,’ and as the name indicates,... Read more.
What We Can Learn from Ancient Spartans about Courage
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The neo-fascists may (and probably do) think of themselves as putatively superhuman beings, but they are just as prone as any other group of people to squabbling... Read more.
Technology and a Tyranny Worse than Prison
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There is a lesson in this as far as the ineluctable need for action is concerned when rational argument with would-be oppressors gets one nowhere. This is especially... Read more.
Why Totalitarianism Can Never Be Total
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We are able to resist these would-be dictators in so far as, through our actions, we instantiate new, unpredictable beginnings, sometimes by rupturing fascist, totalitarian... Read more.
A Freudian Critique of the Pandemic Response
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Considering that Freud associates the life instinct (Eros) with the aggregation of families and communities, and with the panoply of creative endeavours comprising... Read more.