3 months ago
Why Politics is Immanently Theological, Part II
Ethics versus Morality
We often hear today that wokeism and political correctness are gradually receding. Contrary to this opinion, I think that this phenomenon is gradually being “normalized,” widely accepted …
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3 months ago
Why Politics Is Immanently Theological, Part I
Why are so many essays entitled “politico-theological treatise”? The answer is that a theory becomes theology when it is part of a full subjective political engagement. As Kierkegaard pointed out, …
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5 months ago
Why Lacan Is Not a Buddhist: A Belated Reply to My Critics
Over the last decades, critiques of my reading of Buddhism have been abundant. Even those who are otherwise sympathetic to my general approach claim that I miss the point when …
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7 months ago
The Faces of New Barbarism
In Moscow, authorities began to check the condition of bomb shelters at schools. No one showed the written document itself, but management reported that the order had been received to …
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8 months ago
On “Legitimate Rapes”
An obscene event occurred back in 2012. In an effort to explain his stance on abortion, Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, provoked ire across the political …
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10 months ago
The Communist Desire
In her stupendous Yesterday’s Tomorrow,[1] Bini Adamczak provides nothing less than the definitive account of what one cannot but call the ineradicable, absolutely authentic, Communist desire, the Idea of a …
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1 year ago
The Political Implications of Non-Representative Art
In his Philosophy of History, Hegel provided a wonderful characterization of Thucydides’s book on the Peloponnesian war: “his immortal work is the absolute gain which humanity has derived from that …
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1 year ago
Five Ethico-Political Fragments
CASTRATION HERE, CASTRATION THERE, CASTRATION EVERYWHERE
Weeks ago, the Ukrainian President Zelensky addressed Russian soldiers in Russian, promising them safety and decent treatment if they were captured or surrendered to …
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1 year ago
What Will Grow Out of a Pocket Full of Sunflower Seeds?
Michael Marder published in The Philosophical Salon a wonderful text on a Ukrainian woman giving sunflower seeds to a Russian soldier. I call this text wonderful because it does what …
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1 year ago
AOC and Her Boyfriend’s Leg
In late December 2021, the US nationalist Rightist Steve Cortes tweeted a photo of Alessandria Ocasio-Cortez and her boyfriend Riley Roberts enjoying their Christmas break in Florida, commenting on it: …
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