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Rivka Weinberg
7 min read
"Death is Overrated": An Essay by Rivka Weinberg (Keywords: Time; Meaning; Religion; Mortality)
"Regarding meaning, death just does what time would do eventually anyway, but perhaps more mercifully."
Eraldo Souza dos Santos
8 min read
"Violence": An Essay by Eraldo Souza dos Santos (Keywords: Politics; Structures; Domination; Racism)
"Violence cannot be understood only through the gesture of the blow, but equally through the systemic suffering that permeates our lives."
Jana Bacevic
10 min read
"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
"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."
Clare Chambers and Brian D. Earp
13 min read
"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."
Brad Evans and Chantal Meza
18 min read
"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
"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
"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."
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