Adam Kirsch, Why more people want human extinction: climate change, an AI ‘singularity’, and merging with a cosmic flow of data, South China Morning Post Magazine, 29 Jan 2023 Man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.” With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel …
Octave Larmagnac-Matheron, Vaccin pour abeilles : quand la biopolitique touche les animaux, Philosophie magazine, 23 janvier 2023 C’est une première : un vaccin pour abeilles domestiques a été autorisé aux États-Unis. L’objectif : protéger les insectes contre la bactérie Paenibacillus larvae qui décime les ruches, et par conséquent la filière apicole. Foucault y verrait peut-être …
Alessandro Michele’s five best moments at Gucci, Hunger, 24 November 2022 Following last night’s news that Michele will be departing Gucci, HUNGER takes a look back at some of his best sartorial moments, as we bid farewell to his double G genius for now. […] Message for the masses The SS20 Gucci show was opened …
French Philosophy Now Philosophy Now. A Magazine of Ideas, Issue 153: December 2022 / January 2023 Manon Royet tells us what’s happening in French philosophy, and why you don’t know about it. From Descartes and Voltaire, to Sartre and Foucault, French thought has long occupied a privileged seat in the world’s agora. René Descartes (1596-1650), …
The West’s leading pseudo-intellectual by Ammar Ahmad The Michigan Daily, November 30, 2022 Jordan Peterson is a popular Canadian personality psychologist who has made quite a name for himself by preaching against the use of pronouns, arguing that they violate freedom of speech. In a CBC interview, he uses his spotlight moment to say “I …
Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski, The failure of May 1968, Unherd, May 24, 2022 “What defines our public life today is boredom”. That was a Le Monde front-page headline in March 1968. Two months later, a revolution would erupt that would shake the foundations of the Fifth Republic, divide France, and alter its history forever. […] In June, …
Peter Salmon, Since Derrida, Aeon, 6 May 2022 A golden generation of French philosophers dismantled truth and other traditional ideas. What next for their successors? […] Ricœur was part of a generation that Hélène Cixous, one of its members, called ‘the incorruptibles’. Their numbers included such thinkers as Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Jean Luc-Nancy, …
Why Critics of Angry Woke College Kids Are Missing the Point Wendy Brown interviewed by David Marchese, New York Times Magazine, 1 May 2022 The halls of academia may appear to be overrun by battles over academic freedom, free speech, identity politics, cancel culture and overreaching wokeness. But why does it look that way? And …
Philip Mirowski, The Death of Neoliberalism Has Been Greatly Exaggerated. Jacobin. 04.27.2022 Despite predictions of its demise, the neoliberal power bloc of think tanks and lobby groups is still deeply entrenched and pushing into new territory, from health care to space exploration. Neoliberalism won’t be over until the Left can challenge that power. It is …
Neha Patel, The Function of Train Travel in Books, Book Riot, Jan 14, 2022 […] Trains are incredible because its passengers either forget about them entirely or have a moment or two immortalized in their memories. But trains themselves are liminal. The term’s Latin roots come from “limen,” which roughly translates to “threshold.” As such, …
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