Debates

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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The water in the lagoon was licking the stones of the Zattere. They say that acqua alta is handled well now, that the MOSE floodgates work. Yet, at the brickwork …
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Can we still see the wood for the trees? What we are living through is not a sequence of disconnected crises, but the weird consolidation of a debt‑saturated economic system. …
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Any attempt to think about things necessarily and repeatedly returns to a fundamental principle: between every entity and its possibility of existing, a necessary relation obtains. Whether we articulate this …
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Dan Nadasan is right to point out that the main shattering impact of the AI on our lives concerns the status of appearance.[1] In this context, we’ve got to introduce …
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I first saw Caravaggio’s (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,1571-1610) St Francis in Ecstasy, 1595 in the exhibition titled Caravaggio 2025 at the Palazzo Barberini Rome. Made in Rome when he was …
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Europe’s new “security‑first” agenda is usually presented as a direct response to Russian aggression. That story is emotionally powerful and politically convenient, but it hides a deeper shift. Europe is …
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At the end of 2025, Giovanbattista Tusa wrote to Françoise Vergès in one of his Letters to the Unknown, the second series of Planetary Conversations. He wrote as Vergès was immersed in making a film about …
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In the titanic dispute between humans and robots—a confrontation that never ceases to astonish us and that grows daily with new and unprecedented moral dilemmas—what stands out is the need …
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