"Humanising War, Obscuring Peace": A Conversation with Samuel Moyn
"I sense that humanisation is the problem as much as the solution because it masks efforts at domination."
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Rima Basu
8 min read
"Belief": An Essay by Rima Basu(Keywords: Epistemology; Individualism; Stereotypes; Racism)
"We cannot go blithely into the world believing whatever we want because belief is a communal object."
Avram Alpert
20 min read
"There Is Nothing Better than Good Enough" by Avram Alpert (Keywords: Wisdom; Freedom; Cooperation)
"Human progress should not be defined in strictly material or spiritual terms, but in our capacity to unite the two."
Maeve McKeown
10 min read
"Responsibility": An Essay by Maeve McKeown(Keywords: Politics; Ethics; Agency; Global Justice)
"Cumulative human activities can impact on millions of geographically dispersed people in deeply harmful ways".
Reiland Rabaka
10 min read
"Intersectionality": An Essay by Reiland Rabaka (Keywords: Identity; Oppression; Black Feminism)
"Intersectionality offers multiply marginalized people a way to identify and interpret forms of violence, oppression, and exploitation."
Andy West
17 min read
"Philosophy, Memoir, and Revelation": Andy West in Conversation with Adam Ferner
"I have no interest in arguing that memoir is actually philosophy and philosophy is actually memoir. I’m happy to cannibalise both."
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."
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