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Who Is the Excluded Third in Toy Story 5?
2 months ago

Who Is the Excluded Third in Toy Story 5?

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The apparent conflict at the heart of Toy Story 5 (Andrew Stanton, 2026) is easy to understand. Sheriff Jessie (Joan Cusack), together with Woody (Tom Hanks), Bullseye, and the other traditional toys, …
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Marginalia on a Burning System: Rereading Deleuze and Guattari in the Age of Financial Axiomatics
3 months ago

Marginalia on a Burning System: Rereading Deleuze and Guattari in the Age of Financial Axiomatics

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More than ever before, the global economy is dangerously reliant on the acceleration in bank credit flows, driven almost entirely by massive U.S. borrowing tied to artificial intelligence expansion, which …
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Are We in a Pre-War State?
3 months ago

Are We in a Pre-War State?

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Are we in a pre-war state? Undoubtedly yes, and what further complicates the picture is that the threat of global war is combined with two other threats: the ecological catastrophe …
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The Philosophy of a Democratic Crisis: Between Insiders and Outsiders
3 months ago

The Philosophy of a Democratic Crisis: Between Insiders and Outsiders

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We can speak today of a certain crisis of democracy both as a fact and, more importantly, as a credible value. Authoritarian regimes prove their efficiency, and in many Western …
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A Shakespearean Allegory on the Decline and Fall of the American Republic
3 months ago

A Shakespearean Allegory on the Decline and Fall of the American Republic

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare [1] is a play that is historical in nature, based on actual characters and events during the Roman era, in particular, the …
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Rival Visions: Another History of the Modern Human Subject (2)
4 months ago

Rival Visions: Another History of the Modern Human Subject (2)

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were cold and violent through much of Europe; Jacques Caillot’s 1633 depiction of “the miseries of war” remains shocking even today. They were also times …
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AI and the End of Instrumentality
4 months ago

AI and the End of Instrumentality

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When we use AI to search for answers or for some other task, it complies. But it does more than that. It rephrases the question, offers us alternatives, or it …
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Seventeen Theses on the Colonial Real
4 months ago

Seventeen Theses on the Colonial Real

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The following theses sketch the contours of what might be called the colonial Real: not only the dimension of violence and antagonism that colonial discourse cannot fully symbolize, but the …
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The Home of the Nomad
4 months ago

The Home of the Nomad

“A work of thought — to go toward the other, to the absolutely other — does not come back to the same.” Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity

The philosopher between …
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Philosophy After Auschwitz From Germany: A Note on Christoph Menke’s ‘Critique of Israel’
5 months ago

Philosophy After Auschwitz From Germany: A Note on Christoph Menke’s ‘Critique of Israel’

How might one summarise the main thrust of the argument developed by Christoph Menke in his article ‘“Reason of State”’, which appeared in the latest issue of the German cultural …
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