Debates

Tex Avery’s 1951 animation, “Car of Tomorrow,” is limited only by the historical imagination. Wrapped in chrome and richly colored, the car of tomorrow is long, smooth, and muscular. Inspired …
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Over the last decades, critiques of my reading of Buddhism have been abundant. Even those who are otherwise sympathetic to my general approach claim that I miss the point when …
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Youssef Ishaghpour, an Iranian-born author and film scholar, once said that Godard wanted to live the history of cinema as a love story[1]. I would add that Godard’s films can …
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Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is the most important scholarly work of libertarian philosophy.  Published just three years after John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, it appeared at …
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In theory, we live in a liberated age. People hook up all the time without fanfare. An abundance of apps promise to satisfy every sexual or romantic appetite. You’d expect …
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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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