Debates

Byung-Chul Han posits that “narration lets time emit a scent.” He is writing of scent because he is writing of Proust, who poses the image of a ‘fragrant crystal of …
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Modern societies rely on science more than ever, yet increasingly identify it with its technological outcomes. Both its cultural role—as a form of critical inquiry that shapes our worldviews—and its …
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If you, like me, ill-advisedly whiled away the past couple of weeks in a haze of doomscrolling, then you have seen the memes. Sophie Cunningham, a shooting guard for the …
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Contemporary digital landscape reveals that a totalized system of global administrative control—characterized by biometric identities, the elimination of cash, algorithmic sorting, and transhumanist optimization—does not require a supernatural villain. It …
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Back in 1908 Trotsky wrote an analysis of art which displays his great sensitivity to the violence that pertains to the very form of artistic exhibition:

“You see, visiting art …
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Every European philosophy is a commentary on Plato, and so is mine. The reason for returning to this figure again and again through millennia is that there are distinctions – …
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In the spring of 2026, events occurred in German philosophy and political life that, at their intersection, illuminate a sinister trend in the probable formation of the Federal Republic’s social …
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Disappearance became as clear as the blue sky, which, for a moment, appeared complicit in the violence below. Planes exploded and steel melted as the world observed a spectacle characterized …
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Somewhere in Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy there is a scene where humanity’s first message to the stars is intercepted by an alien pacifist, who risks everything to …
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In the silence of the startling news, I reach out to Michael and ask if we may write a text together. Imagine a correspondence. To acknowledge. And inscribe.

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