Debates

Agamben’s “Configuration of Facts” and Foucault’s “Regime of Truth”

In “The Central Bankers’ Long COVID,” Fabio Vighi observes that the contemporary paradigm of government by crisis fosters a rhetoric of …
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Recently, I went to a secondhand book shop in Copenhagen, the one closest to where I live. On the floor, there was a pile of books by Michel Houellebecq. I …
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The daisy opens its petals at dawn to greet the sun. There is an unspoken bond connecting flower and star. Opening its petals at sunrise and closing them at sunset, …
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Even the most simplified and superficial reception of psychoanalysis in mass culture has highlighted the sexual symbolism of cars and trains, unconsciously perceived as replacements for the penis. The modern, …
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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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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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“We have between 150 and 200 bears in the Missoula Valley right now.”[i]

That was Chris Servheen, a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service bear specialist urging the Missoula City …
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A friend of mine, Shahal Khoso, a PhD student in Spain, shared with me the other week a screenshot of a short paragraph on Martin Heidegger on Lahore’s smog. “A …
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What are the drivers of senile capitalism? I will list five of them in no particular order, and then proceed to discuss their interconnections:

1. Debt. The only road …
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At this time of an intensifying climate breakdown, it is easy to experience a strong sense of guilt about the carbon emissions from the means of transport we take especially …
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