"On the Feeling of Some Essential Failure": Alexandre Leskanich Reviews "In Praise of Failure" by Costica Bradatan
"We can only ever become, at best, more perfect failures: failures who finally understand the failures they are."
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Briana Toole
10 min read
"Objectivity": An Essay by Briana Toole (Keywords: Epistemology; Methodology; Race; Power; Truth)
"If objectivity is little more than a shield to protect the interests of the powerful, then what does this mean for the pursuit of truth?"
Jessica Whyte
10 min read
"Market": An Essay by Jessica Whyte (Keywords: Neoliberalism; Capitalism; Democracy; Freedom; Peace)
"What is a market if markets can over-ride the democratic political process and determine the priorities to which nations must conform?"
Yarran Hominh
11 min read
"Unfreedom": An Essay by Yarran Hominh (Keywords: Agency; Liberation; Pragmatism; Non-Ideal Theory)
"Unfreedom is not just a matter of states of the world, but how the world affects and shapes how we think, feel, and act."
Peter Wolfendale
36 min read
"The Weight of Forever": Peter Wolfendale reviews "What We Owe the Future" by William MacAskill
"I don’t think we owe the future anything, strictly speaking, and this is why the future can be so exciting."
Robert S. Leib
15 min read
Kermit’s Dreams: (Sophie) Kermit in conversation with Robert S. Leib
"We have lots to question anew around exoanthropology, especially on the nature of persons and normative structures involved in personhood."
Helena de Bres
10 min read
"Doing Philosophy While Doing Time": Helena de Bres reviews "The Life Inside" by Andy West
"I confess to persistent envy while reading The Life Inside about the urgency that philosophical questions have in West’s classrooms. "
Alexandre Leskanich
17 min read
"An Excess of Reality": Alexandre Leskanich reviews "On the Future" by Martin Rees
"In possession of a historical consciousness that has never before been so excruciatingly heightened, we are bowed beneath its weight."
Carl Mika
12 min read
"Where Do We Stand When We Know? Mātauranga Māori and its Translation as 'Science'" by Carl Mika
"Methods of thinking and observing are tightly implicated with wellbeing – not just for the human entity but also the non-human world."
Simone M. Müller
8 min read
"Toxicity": An Essay by Simone M. Müller (Keywords: Planet; Anthropocene; Injustice; Inequality)
"In the age of the toxic commons, not one of us, not even the environmentally privileged ones like me, remains unaffected by toxicants."
Thomas Nail
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"Movement": An Essay by Thomas Nail (Keywords: Anthropocene; Ontology; Migration; Capitalism)
"We cannot adequately understand contemporary politics through the paradigm of static states and stationary citizens."
Michael Marder
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"Connectedness": An Essay by Michael Marder (Keywords: Anthropocene; Metaphysics; Entanglement)
"Humanity is an errant species; perhaps this is why it is a planetary species, dreaming of becoming interplanetary."
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