6 years ago
Where is the Rift? Marx, Lacan, Capitalism, and Ecology
When, decades ago, ecology emerged as a crucial theoretical and practical issue, many Marxists (as well as critics of Marxism) noted that nature – more precisely, the exact ontological status …
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6 years ago
Yes, Anti-Semitism Is Alive and Well–But Where?
A strange thing happened to me over these past few days. On Friday, December 20 the website of Spectator USA published my comment on the thin line between Zionism and …
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6 years ago
More on Joker: From Apolitical Nihilism to a New Left, or Why Trump is no Joker
One should begin by expressing admiration for a Hollywood, in which it is possible to make a film like Todd Phillips’ Joker, and for the public that turned it into …
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6 years ago
Can One Be a Hegelian Today?
I am a Hegelian – but which Hegel am I referring to here? Where am I speaking from?
To simplify it to the utmost, the triad that defines my philosophical …
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6 years ago
The Fall That Makes Us Like God, Part II
As we have already seen, (some) proponents of Singularity read it in a Hegelian way, as the final reconciliation between mind and reality, as the healing of the wound of …
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6 years ago
The Fall That Makes Us Like God, Part I
Singularity cannot keep its theological promise to redeem us from the Fall. It may so happen that in post-humanity we will move into another dimension, in which we will no …
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6 years ago
The Libidinal Economy of Singularity
Our media are more and more fascinated by the prospect of “post-humanity” opened up by a direct link between our brain and a digital machine. To remind readers, this is …
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6 years ago
A Literary Fantasy: The Unnameable Subject of Singularity
What kind of apocalypse announces itself in the prospect of the so-called “post-humanity” opened up by a direct link between our brain and a digital machine, popularly called “neuralink” and …
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6 years ago
Making Use of Religion? No, Thanks!
THE core philosophical question is not “how can we break through the veil of illusions and reach true reality?” but exactly the opposite one: “why do illusions arise within reality?” …
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7 years ago
They Are Both Worse!
Back in the late 1920s, Stalin was asked by a journalist which deviation is worse, the Rightist one (Bukharin&company) or the Leftist one (Trotsky&company), and he snapped back: “They are …
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