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About Santiago Zabala

Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona in Spain. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He is the author of several books, most recently Why Only Art can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (Columbia UP, 2017); Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (McGill-Queen’s UP,2020); Outspoken: A Manifesto for the 21st Century, edited with Adrian Parr (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024); and Signs from the Future: A Philosophy of Warnings (Columbia University Press, 2025).
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Why Don’t We Listen to Warnings? The Horizonless Society
5 months ago

Why Don’t We Listen to Warnings? The Horizonless Society

As Slavoj Žižek often recalls, philosophy’s purpose is not to provide all the answers but to ask the right questions. If the question concerning warnings is one of them, it’s …
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“In this Conversation.” Gianni Vattimo: 1936-2023
2 years ago

“In this Conversation.” Gianni Vattimo: 1936-2023

Much has man (Mensch) learnt.

Many of the heavenly ones has he named,

Since we have been a conversation

And have been …
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Disruption: Neither Innovative nor Valuable
4 years ago

Disruption: Neither Innovative nor Valuable

In a recent interview Clayton M. Christensen linked “disruptive innovation” to God’s desire that “all of mankind . . . be successful. The only way to make this happen is to help individual …
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