Debates

All living creatures are timekeepers. Like clocks, we measure time through the bodies we inhabit. The human heart beats inexorably like a clock until at some point it stops, and …
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“Trauma” is a buzzword these days. Wherever you turn, someone is being traumatized by something. But just what is trauma and why is it such a hot topic right now? …
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Reflecting on the last fifteen months, it has almost become a cliché to evoke the end of history as we have witnessed the hollowness, and then collapse, of the fundamentals …
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There is absolutely no contradiction between a “pessimist” view of our world as a valley of tears, of our life itself as a decaying corpse of a dead god, of …
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“For all the victims of civil obedience”

Carola Rackete, Handeln statt Hoffen (2019)

In a 1964 radio broadcast with Hannah Arendt, Joachim Fest asks the German philosopher about the …
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The infamous 1929 Davos debate between Cassirer and Heidegger, which as history tells it Heidegger won, not only marked the historical rift and parting of ways between what is now …
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“If you ever feel useless, remember it took 20 years, trillions of dollars and 4 US Presidents to replace the Taliban with the Taliban” (Norman Finkelstein)

Of course, the above …
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In 1955, Theodor Adorno famously declared, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” In the new century, the barbaric takes new forms. Nature rebels against humanity’s voracity and foolishness. What …
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What comes to mind when we hear about Ukrainian cinema today? I’m certain that for most readers, images related to the terrible war that has been destroying cities and grinding …
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The first part of this three-part essay began with the near-universal assumption that we are independent subjects, ultimately identified with a center of conscious experience outside of social life. Both …
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