Debates

Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things (a title he preferred to the original Les Mots et les Choses) was the book that made his name. It has never been without …
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On the verge of the fortieth anniversary of Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster in human history, the vibe emanating from the newsreel remains the same as before. Everywhere, the intent …
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Though Nietzsche infamously declared that God is dead and accused us of being culpable for his death, it is a curious feature of humanity that we ceaselessly strive to seek …
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Few novels capture the disorientation and contradictions of the first quarter of the twentieth century as fully as Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. Published in 1924 – though written between …
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If you want to hide a problem, there is no better place than a generalisation. And perhaps nowhere do generalisations find such an easy home as in the field of …
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If the subject is nothing other than that which is determined within the pre-articulated network of relations of power, regulatory institutions, language, and history — so that …
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The U.S. attack on Iran is but the latest in a dizzying array of global upheavals – ranging from geopolitical conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East to the Myanmar …
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Predictably, Iran is the next crisis in line. No sooner were we told to obsess over the latest unsealing of the Epstein files than our gaze was already redirected toward …
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Figure 1. Anselm Feuerbach, Orpheus und Eurydike, 1869. Belvedere, Vienna. Public Domain.

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‘— No, I Won’t Do That’

Meat Loaf’s I Would Do Anything for Love inspired social …
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When governments release politically explosive information, the explanation is almost always procedural: a law is passed, a deadline arrives, documents are reviewed, redactions are applied, publication follows. Officially, such choreography …
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