2 years ago
Saying, Keeping Silent, and Showing: Notes on a Scandal in Frankfurt
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darueber muss man schweigen. (Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.)[1]
In this final proposition of his Tractatus Wittgenstein prohibits the impossible. Why …
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2 years ago
Mobilize to Really Slow Down!
As Kohei Saito conclusively demonstrated in his path-breaking contribution to eco-Marxism[1], the only way to achieve real progress today is to problematize the very notion of progress which dominates not …
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2 years ago
Absolute Invariants in Physics and Society
The Albanian prime minister Edi Rama told the following joke at an international conference: “Russia is considering unifying its time zones because there is a nine-hour difference between one side …
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2 years ago
Manipur Is Not Only in India
To a Western European with a vague knowledge of Italian, “Manipur” automatically associates with “mani pulite” (pure hands), the big anti-corruption campaign in the early 1990s that changed the whole …
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3 years 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 years 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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3 years 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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3 years 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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3 years 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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3 years 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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