4 years ago
And Say the Alien Responded?
I teach contemporary philosophical anthropology at Stasis Center for Philosophy at the European University in St. Petersburg. Inspired by Paul Preciado’s ‘Letter to an Extraterrestrial’, originally published in Libération in …
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4 years ago
The Desire of Squid Game
On October 12, Arirang Meari, a North Korean propaganda website, said that Netflix’s global smash-hit Squid Game discloses the “beastly capitalism” of South Korea, where corruption and rogues are everywhere. …
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4 years ago
Who Wants to Live… Indefinitely? Transhumanism, Biology, and Our Biotechnological Present
There is a growing consensus among our tech overlords that after this life there will be another. No, the life expectancy of a Jeff Bezos, a Peter Thiel, or an …
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4 years ago
A Sense of Upheaval
We live at a time of great upheavals. Every sphere of existence is now home to the destabilizing forces that are drastically changing the environment, redrawing social boundaries, shaking up …
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4 years ago
Stasis @ The Salon 3. The Death Drive of Evolution, or Her Shitty Highness, The Human
Freud considers psychoanalysis to be an even more wounding blow than Darwin’s recognition of human beings as descended from the animal kingdom. Elaborating on Freud, in his first two seminars …
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4 years ago
Beautiful Chaos: The Passion of Maradona
The Moment of Moments
The setting couldn’t have been more vibrant. The Estadio Azteca was a cacophony of sound and colour. It was filled to capacity as 114,000 expectant souls …
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5 years ago
Beyond a Neoconservative Communism
An allegedly old Chinese curse (which has nothing to do with China – it was probably invented by some Western observer) says “May you live in interesting times!” Interesting times …
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5 years ago
Small Words, Big Consequences. On Michel Foucault’s Genealogy of the Critical Attitude
Michel Foucault has been called many things, from a young conservative to a faux radical, from a neo-liberal to an infantile leftist. Whatever the hermeneutical value of these epithets may …
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5 years ago
When a Virus Mutates with Ideology: Fear-Mongering for the ‘Wellbeing of the Neighbour’
The affect-laden political fight against Covid-19 represents today’s dominant ideological battlefield. On the one hand, ‘neutral’ statistics and forecasts determine political decisions as never before. On the other hand, the …
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5 years ago
My Half-Vaxxed Daughter
I got the jab with no hesitation. The risks seemed negligible and the benefits substantial, so when the AstraZeneca vaccine became available to me in March of this year, I …
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