Debates

The recently released Disney computer animated feature Strange World (Don Hall, 2022) revels in political correctness. From the get-go, viewers are acquainted and sympathize with Ethan Clade (Jaboukie Young-White), the …
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We are in the middle of the streaming wars. A boom of content platforms, as entertainment mega-companies like to call themselves, is happening: AppleTV+, Disney+, Paramount+, etc. Streaming has become …
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Perhaps The Philosophical Salon readers are familiar with Alenka Zupančič’s illustrative remarks about a key scene in Ernst Lubitsch’s classic film Ninotchka (1939). A man enters a cafe and requests …
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I was very young when I began exploring the world of digital art, fascinated by the potential of software like Photoshop. It was version 5.0, which is to today’s version …
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There is a bat in our bedroom. We don’t know how it got in, but bats can crawl through the narrowest of crevices and passageways, and our old house is …
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In Moscow, authorities began to check the condition of bomb shelters at schools. No one showed the written document itself, but management reported that the order had been received to …
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Fascism has never been obsolete. It is omnipresent.[1] The specters of the 1930s have now been reawakened on multiple levels. Mindful of its revenant, Enzo Traverso in The New Faces …
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Despite his reputation for telling jokes and the central role that humor plays in his philosophy, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek does not have a theory of comedy. In his …
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The personification of nature as a maternal figure has a long history, spanning many different cultural belief systems: within Greek mythology, she is Mother Gaia; in Inca belief, Pachamama; and, …
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It has been over four decades since Cedric Robinson published his widely-acclaimed study, Black Marxism.[1] In recent years the work has enjoyed a celebratory renaissance.  It has become increasingly influential …
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