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Society of Affiliation (1): The Meanings of Affiliation
That every like is not the same, O Ceasar! The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon! William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Today we live in societies where real interpersonal relations have …
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1 week ago
On an Unlikely Intellectual Convergence between a Reactionary Homophobe and a Leftist Homosexual
The relationship between Michel Foucault and Philip Rieff is best understood through contrast rather than any direct interaction or influence. On the surface, they could hardly be more different. Foucault, …
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2 weeks ago
The Revolutionary Dialectic of Suffering: Beyond Utopianism and Nihilism
Slavoj Žižek’s recent provocation in The Philosophical Salon, “Why a Communist Must Assume that Life is Hell,” introduces a subtle but profoundly unsettling reimagining of the political and existential stakes …
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3 weeks ago
We Have Never Felt So Free. Why Do We Feel So Helpless? Part Three.
This essay begins, in its first part, by questioning the assumption that human agency is individual and identical with the activity of a pre-social core of conscious experience. Its second …
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