Debates

Filippo Tomasso Marinetti, founder of Futurism in the early 20th century, figures as one of its “Patron-Saints” in Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimistic Manifesto (2023)[i]. This manifesto glorifies the techno-capital machine—“the engine …
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It has been said that history moves forward by its bad side. To radicalise this further, we could argue that history is advancing through its worse to the catastrophic side. …
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How would a contemporary Ophelia look in our age when patriarchy is replaced by a globalized perversion and when the confused fragments that compose our digital communication already look like …
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 When, after February 24, 2022, the first news began to arrive from Ukraine about the Russian invasion and the disasters for the Ukrainian population under the attacks of the Russian …
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All living creatures are timekeepers. Like clocks, we measure time through the bodies we inhabit. The human heart beats inexorably like a clock until at some point it stops, and …
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“Trauma” is a buzzword these days. Wherever you turn, someone is being traumatized by something. But just what is trauma and why is it such a hot topic right now? …
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Reflecting on the last fifteen months, it has almost become a cliché to evoke the end of history as we have witnessed the hollowness, and then collapse, of the fundamentals …
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There is absolutely no contradiction between a “pessimist” view of our world as a valley of tears, of our life itself as a decaying corpse of a dead god, of …
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“For all the victims of civil obedience”

Carola Rackete, Handeln statt Hoffen (2019)

In a 1964 radio broadcast with Hannah Arendt, Joachim Fest asks the German philosopher about the …
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The infamous 1929 Davos debate between Cassirer and Heidegger, which as history tells it Heidegger won, not only marked the historical rift and parting of ways between what is now …
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