"Dante’s Paradise is – unchangingly – a place of infinite change; of change in who I am, among other things."

"It will be hard to shake free of the sense that to co-write with AI is to imbue the system with spirit. "

"Charles Mills’ work brilliantly and unhesitatingly engages white philosophy by stripping it of an ideological cover."

"Uexküll vehemently rejected the position that organisms are merely highly complex machines and can be fully explained in mechanistic terms"

"Freedom cannot be a property of the will, for freedom is the ontological condition that makes willing possible."

"Philosophy written by men gets positioned as philosophy; philosophy written by women gets positioned as feminist philosophy."

"It is in its situatedness, in its being placed, that thinking finds its very possibility and its proper ground."

"If Nietzsche was the great contrarian of the nineteeth century, Cioran, to a less famous extent, is the great contrarian of the twentieth."

"The history of chess and philosophy has yet to be written. And yet the history of the latter is replete with references to the former."

"When we think, we 'withdraw' from the world of appearances, in order to make present to the mind what is absent from the senses."

"What is it that we defend under the banner of “academic freedom”? At what possible costs?"

"Death brings in its wake a peculiar sense of aloneness in which one loses the image of one’s self that another held."

"To leave the cave is to abandon something that matters deeply: politics, the material world, art and poetry and beauty."

"When it comes to research, the popular conception of lone scientific geniuses is off the mark; scientific progress requires collaboration."

"To speak of the reality of race is not to speak of it in ontological terms as one would a chair, stone, or tautological algorithm."

Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Philosophy, according to classical metaphysicians, begins in wonder: why is there something rather than...

"Trust in and adherence to scientific truth ultimately remains a moral norm, an expression of behavioural propriety. "

"Authority, irreducible to both coercion and knowledge, cannot simply be done away with."

"We should problematize current political discourses that declare a 'war on the virus.'"

"For me, the zone of nothingness is a sacred space, a kind of pre-creative state that is essential to my work."