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"Reality": An Essay by Jana Bacevic (Keywords: Truth; Anthropology; Bruno Latour; Climate Change)

Reality is not in people’s heads as much as it is created through the interaction of specific groups of people in specific times and places.

Robin Celikates

11 min read

The New Basics

"Borders": An Essay by Robin Celikates (Keywords: Refugees; Nationalism; Pandemic; Critical Theory)

"A border is never just a border, a gate to be opened or closed at will."

"Can Our Bodies Ever Be Good Enough?" Clare Chambers in conversation with Brian D. Earp

Clare Chambers and Brian D. Earp

13 min read

Conversations

"Can Our Bodies Ever Be Good Enough?" Clare Chambers in conversation with Brian D. Earp

"The images and the ideals about how our body should be are strongly dependent on existing inequalities and discriminatory practices."

"Have We Finally Become Ghosts in the Machine?" An Essay by Brad Evans & Chantal Meza

Brad Evans and Chantal Meza

18 min read

Essays

"Have We Finally Become Ghosts in the Machine?" An Essay by Brad Evans & Chantal Meza

"We have been rightly suspicious about the possibility of technological enslavement and how we may end up authors of our own extinction."

Alexandre Leskanich

23 min read

Reviews

"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."

Briana Toole

10 min read

The New Basics

"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

The New Basics

"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

The New Basics

"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

Reviews

"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

Conversations

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

Reviews

"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

Reviews

"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."

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