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What If Privacy Matters Less Than We Think?
3 years ago

What If Privacy Matters Less Than We Think?

Literally speaking, privacy is ‘idiotic.’ Which is not to say that it is stupid or makes little sense. Rather, privacy makes ‘idiots’ of us all.

Etymology suggests as much, Hannah …
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Foucault: The Faux Radical
3 years ago

Foucault: The Faux Radical

The Radical Recuperator

Ptolemy constructed an inordinately complex model of the universe in order to make all of the empirical data conform to a central, organizing false assumption, namely, that …
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A Time Span in a Corner of the Global South: A Sketch
3 years ago

A Time Span in a Corner of the Global South: A Sketch

How do you measure time in the third world?

I grew up surrounded by the neon lights of Western hegemonic principles through radio, TV, and print. The 1990s were …
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Kurc Te Gleda — Through Lubitsch’s Looking Glass
4 years ago

Kurc Te Gleda — Through Lubitsch’s Looking Glass

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The title is printable only in (what is for me) a foreign language (English, in this case), making sure that readers would not understand it. In Slovene, it is an …
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The Psychic Life (and Death) of Statues
4 years ago

The Psychic Life (and Death) of Statues

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, activists have called for the demolition and removal of statues and monuments that are linked in some way to slavery, racism, and colonialism. …
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A Letter to Lou Andreas Salomé, Nietzsche’s and Freud’s “Muse”
4 years ago

A Letter to Lou Andreas Salomé, Nietzsche’s and Freud’s “Muse”

Dear Lou Andreas Salomé:

I met you recently in “Freud”, a Netflix series about the founder of psychoanalysis (or, rather, a random namesake from Vienna), where you play the role …
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The Philosopher’s Ignorance (with a Response by Slavoj Žižek)
4 years ago

The Philosopher’s Ignorance (with a Response by Slavoj Žižek)

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In a recent article for The Philosophical Salon, Slavoj Žižek offers a number of well-trodden ideas on the relationship between ignorance and knowledge. In doing so, he shuts a window …
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“Silence Is Violence”: Simone Weil on the Impossible Demands of Justice
4 years ago

“Silence Is Violence”: Simone Weil on the Impossible Demands of Justice

“All true good carries with it conditions which are contradictory and as a consequence is impossible. He who keeps his attention really fixed on this impossibility and acts will do …
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The Will Not to Know
4 years ago

The Will Not to Know

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Up until now, some of us have been desperately clinging to the hope that countries that are somehow associated with Socialism are better at containing the pandemic. I mean not …
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The Singular Life of Bernard Stiegler
4 years ago

The Singular Life of Bernard Stiegler

The first time I met Bernard Stiegler was at the Paris summer school hosted by the University of Kent in June 2016. There, he gave a seminar on the notion …
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