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#80 April 2025

  • Introduction
  • The Prison-House of Language: Nabokov, Derrida, Bataille and the Sovereignty of Words Tung-Wei Ko
  • On the Relation Between Virtue and Knowledge: Aristotelian and Kierkegaardian Critiques of the Socratic View Landon Loftin
  • Adorno on Ideology: “Minima Moralia,” §71 Timofei Gerber
  • The Hythloday, or a Marxian Phenomenology of Use, Exchange, and Consciousness Raphael Chim
  • Adorno on Ideology: “Minima Moralia,” §71 Timofei Gerber
  • The Prison-House of Language: Nabokov, Derrida, Bataille and the Sovereignty of Words Tung-Wei Ko
  • The Hythloday, or a Marxian Phenomenology of Use, Exchange, and Consciousness Raphael Chim
  • On the Relation Between Virtue and Knowledge: Aristotelian and Kierkegaardian Critiques of the Socratic View Landon Loftin
  • Introduction

#79 February 2025

  • Introduction
  • The Motion and Energy of Technology: A Philosophical Investigation Taylor J. Green
  • Alfred North Whitehead and the Bifurcation of Nature Brendan Shine
  • Transfiguring Desire: Ascetic Reordering in Solovyov, Florensky, and Eastern Thought John Hartley
  • J.S. Mill and the Evaluation of Political Ideas Timofei Gerber
  • Alfred North Whitehead and the Bifurcation of Nature Brendan Shine
  • Transfiguring Desire: Ascetic Reordering in Solovyov, Florensky, and Eastern Thought John Hartley
  • The Motion and Energy of Technology: A Philosophical Investigation Taylor J. Green
  • Introduction
  • J.S. Mill and the Evaluation of Political Ideas Timofei Gerber

#78 January 2025

  • Introduction
  • “Eternity by the Stars” & “Now-Time” on Earth: Rethinking Revolution with Blanqui & Benjamin Vernita Zhai
  • History from the Underground: Dostoevsky on Freedom and Necessity Tyson Retz
  • The Seen and the Unseen in Pieter Bruegel the Elder and William Carlos Williams Turner Roth
  • Dreaming Life Ermanno Bencivenga
  • “Eternity by the Stars” & “Now-Time” on Earth: Rethinking Revolution with Blanqui & Benjamin Vernita Zhai
  • History from the Underground: Dostoevsky on Freedom and Necessity Tyson Retz
  • Dreaming Life Ermanno Bencivenga
  • The Seen and the Unseen in Pieter Bruegel the Elder and William Carlos Williams Turner Roth
  • Introduction

#77 December 2024

  • Introduction
  • Defeating White Supremacy By Living A New World Into Being Ron Richardson
  • Freedom, God, and Ground: An Introduction to Schelling’s 1809 Freedom Essay Christopher Satoor
  • Art: Three Degrees of Psychoanalytic Involvement Ermanno Bencivenga & Nuccia Bencivenga
  • A Philosophical Proposal for Guaranteeing Equality Before the Law By Way of Unborn Children Raphael Chim
  • Freedom, God, and Ground: An Introduction to Schelling’s 1809 Freedom Essay Christopher Satoor
  • Defeating White Supremacy By Living A New World Into Being Ron Richardson
  • Art: Three Degrees of Psychoanalytic Involvement Ermanno Bencivenga & Nuccia Bencivenga
  • A Philosophical Proposal for Guaranteeing Equality Before the Law By Way of Unborn Children Raphael Chim
  • Introduction

#76 October 2024

  • Introduction
  • Transgressing the Taboo: A Comparative Analysis of Bataille’s and Freud’s Theoretical Approaches Tung-Wei Ko
  • Is it Morally Permissible to Create AI Androids Merely to Serve us? Elliott R. Crozat
  • Diverse Thoughts on the Lightly Enlightened, circa 17th Century France, Part V Trent Portigal
  • Untimely Contributions and Uncanny Meditations on the Philosophy of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Will Johnson
  • Is it Morally Permissible to Create AI Androids Merely to Serve us? Elliott R. Crozat
  • Untimely Contributions and Uncanny Meditations on the Philosophy of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Will Johnson
  • Transgressing the Taboo: A Comparative Analysis of Bataille’s and Freud’s Theoretical Approaches Tung-Wei Ko
  • Diverse Thoughts on the Lightly Enlightened, circa 17th Century France, Part V Trent Portigal
  • Introduction

#75 September 2024

  • Introduction
  • Some Notes on Clichés, and then some Timofei Gerber
  • The Non-Linear Dynamics of Moral Judgments: Hume’s Response to Cultural Relativism John C. Brady
  • Diverse Thoughts on the Lightly Enlightened, circa 17th Century France, Part IV Trent Portigal
  • Kripke’s Critique of Materialism Debunked Ermanno Bencivenga
  • The Non-Linear Dynamics of Moral Judgments: Hume’s Response to Cultural Relativism John C. Brady
  • Some Notes on Clichés, and then some Timofei Gerber
  • Diverse Thoughts on the Lightly Enlightened, circa 17th Century France, Part IV Trent Portigal
  • Introduction
  • Kripke’s Critique of Materialism Debunked Ermanno Bencivenga

#74 August 2024

  • Introduction
  • Max Ernst and the Schizoanalysis of Nature Mehdi Parsa
  • Logic Of Contradiction: On Łukasiewicz’s critique of the Aristotelean formulations of the principle of contradiction Felipe Bertoldo
  • The Existential Trap: Is Suicide an Escape? Elliott R. Crozat
  • Magic and Wonder: A Brief Reflection on “Wonderstruck” by Helen De Cruz Bernard Wills
  • Max Ernst and the Schizoanalysis of Nature Mehdi Parsa
  • The Existential Trap: Is Suicide an Escape? Elliott R. Crozat
  • Magic and Wonder: A Brief Reflection on “Wonderstruck” by Helen De Cruz Bernard Wills
  • Logic Of Contradiction: On Łukasiewicz’s critique of the Aristotelean formulations of the principle of contradiction Felipe Bertoldo
  • Introduction

#73 July 2024

  • Introduction
  • The Bio-Politics of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies and Eschatological Narratives Giorgi Vachnadze
  • Welcome to the World|ω・`)! Berkeley’s Idealism, Anachronistically, “Dialectically” Raphael Chim
  • On Identity, Necessary and Contingent. Or: How the precision of a formal language can be fool’s gold Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Diverse Thoughts on the Lightly Enlightened, circa 17th Century France, Part III Trent Portigal
  • Welcome to the World|ω・`)! Berkeley’s Idealism, Anachronistically, “Dialectically” Raphael Chim
  • The Bio-Politics of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies and Eschatological Narratives Giorgi Vachnadze
  • Diverse Thoughts on the Lightly Enlightened, circa 17th Century France, Part III Trent Portigal
  • On Identity, Necessary and Contingent. Or: How the precision of a formal language can be fool’s gold Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Introduction

#72 June 2024

  • Introduction
  • Laughing at Darkness: Bataille’s Theory of Laughter Tung-Wei Ko
  • Schelling on the Organic Genesis of Space John C. Brady
  • Justice and Blindness: Antinomies of Violence Turner Roth
  • Diverse Thoughts on the Lightly Enlightened, circa 17th Century France, Part II Trent Portigal
  • Introduction
  • Diverse Thoughts on the Lightly Enlightened, circa 17th Century France, Part II Trent Portigal
  • Justice and Blindness: Antinomies of Violence Turner Roth
  • Laughing at Darkness: Bataille’s Theory of Laughter Tung-Wei Ko
  • Schelling on the Organic Genesis of Space John C. Brady

#71 April 2024

  • Introduction
  • “Would Humanity Be Healthier Without The State?” A. Scott Buch
  • The Power of All Powers: Yogic and European Philosophies of Power in Conversation Aamir Kaderbhai
  • Understanding Edgar Allan Poe Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Diverse Thoughts on the Lightly Enlightened, circa 17th Century France, Part I Trent Portigal
  • “Would Humanity Be Healthier Without The State?” A. Scott Buch
  • The Power of All Powers: Yogic and European Philosophies of Power in Conversation Aamir Kaderbhai
  • Diverse Thoughts on the Lightly Enlightened, circa 17th Century France, Part I Trent Portigal
  • Understanding Edgar Allan Poe Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Introduction

#70 March 2024

  • Introduction
  • The subject of politics of visibility in Jacques Rancière and Peggy Phelan Andrei Ivan Mamal
  • What Makes a Syllogism Perfect in Aristotle’s Assertoric Syllogistic? Minxing Huang
  • Time Explained Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Semiotics of the End: After the End of All Things Alessandro Sbordoni
  • Time Explained Ermanno Bencivenga
  • What Makes a Syllogism Perfect in Aristotle’s Assertoric Syllogistic? Minxing Huang
  • The subject of politics of visibility in Jacques Rancière and Peggy Phelan Andrei Ivan Mamal
  • Semiotics of the End: After the End of All Things Alessandro Sbordoni
  • Introduction

#69 February 2024

  • Introduction
  • A Locus of Contradiction: On Georges Bataille’s Sovereignty Tung-Wei Ko
  • The Reality of Violence: Reflections on the genocide in Gaza Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Berkeley/Norinaga/Marx; Awareanalysis, Part 2: Capitalism, burnout, depression Raphael Chim
  • ‘Of the Mode of Voting’ by John Stuart Mill (and of Over-Sharing) Stephen Leach
  • A Locus of Contradiction: On Georges Bataille’s Sovereignty Tung-Wei Ko
  • The Reality of Violence: Reflections on the genocide in Gaza Ermanno Bencivenga
  • ‘Of the Mode of Voting’ by John Stuart Mill (and of Over-Sharing) Stephen Leach
  • Berkeley/Norinaga/Marx; Awareanalysis, Part 2: Capitalism, burnout, depression Raphael Chim
  • Introduction

#68 December 2023

  • Introduction
  • Philosophical Prolegomena to Fiction and the Unsayable Giorgi Vachnadze
  • Berkeley/Norinaga/Marx; Awareanalysis, Part 1: exchange, discourse, morality, feelings Raphael Chim
  • Freedom (of the Will) Resolved Ermanno Bencivenga
  • The Zombification of the Public Forum Christopher Brown
  • Introduction
  • The Zombification of the Public Forum Christopher Brown
  • Philosophical Prolegomena to Fiction and the Unsayable Giorgi Vachnadze
  • Freedom (of the Will) Resolved Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Berkeley/Norinaga/Marx; Awareanalysis, Part 1: exchange, discourse, morality, feelings Raphael Chim

#67 November 2023

  • Introduction
  • Doing (the) Nothing: Eric Santner and Giorgio Agamben on Suspending the Apparatus of Glory Timothy Lavenz
  • Berkeley/Norinaga/Marx: Money, capital, “solarpunk”, others Raphael Chim
  • Libidinal Politics: The Role of Sexuality and Desire in Legal Embodiment Riley Clare Valentine
  • On the Social Utility of Religion John Lumsden
  • Introduction
  • Libidinal Politics: The Role of Sexuality and Desire in Legal Embodiment Riley Clare Valentine
  • Doing (the) Nothing: Eric Santner and Giorgio Agamben on Suspending the Apparatus of Glory Timothy Lavenz
  • On the Social Utility of Religion John Lumsden
  • Berkeley/Norinaga/Marx: Money, capital, “solarpunk”, others Raphael Chim

#66 October 2023

  • Introduction
  • What is the Science of Linguistics a Science of? Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Can Causation be Justified from a Logical Point of View? Felipe Bertoldo
  • Money and the dance of the three: Marx; Motoori Norinaga Raphael Chim
  • Descartes’ “Second Meditation” Video
  • Introduction
  • Descartes’ “Second Meditation” Video
  • What is the Science of Linguistics a Science of? Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Can Causation be Justified from a Logical Point of View? Felipe Bertoldo
  • Money and the dance of the three: Marx; Motoori Norinaga Raphael Chim

#65 September 2023

  • Introduction
  • What is “any” life? Delimitations of the biographical in “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” (2012) Timofei Gerber
  • Heidegger’s Bots: The Birth and Death of Responsible Artificial Intelligence Chris Tessone
  • Section 23: The Berkeleian Unconscious; Marx Raphael Chim
  • Schelling’s “First Outline of System of the Philosophy of Nature”, (Introduction) Video
  • Introduction
  • Schelling’s “First Outline of System of the Philosophy of Nature”, (Introduction) Video
  • Heidegger’s Bots: The Birth and Death of Responsible Artificial Intelligence Chris Tessone
  • Section 23: The Berkeleian Unconscious; Marx Raphael Chim
  • What is “any” life? Delimitations of the biographical in “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” (2012) Timofei Gerber

#64 August 2023

  • Introduction
  • On The Validity of Normative Life: Habermas’ Discourse Ethics Rowan Anderson
  • Between Historical Reduction & Metaphysical Construction: Critiques of Representation in Foucault and Deleuze Turner Roth
  • Kant on the Problem of the Organism John C. Brady
  • Popular and Generational Shifts in Cultural Capital Diego Galán
  • Kant on the Problem of the Organism John C. Brady
  • On The Validity of Normative Life: Habermas’ Discourse Ethics Rowan Anderson
  • Between Historical Reduction & Metaphysical Construction: Critiques of Representation in Foucault and Deleuze Turner Roth
  • Popular and Generational Shifts in Cultural Capital Diego Galán
  • Introduction

#63 June 2023

  • Introduction
  • Maine de Biran and the Dynamism of Habit. The History of French Vitalism Christopher Satoor
  • Transcendental Idealism at Work with Fictional Objects and Names Ermanno Bencivenga
  • “I don’t feel like working today”: Meditations on object uses, exchanges, self-blame, suicidal ideation, and revolution Raphael Chim
  • Scepticism and Scientism: On the possibility of new principles in the theory of knowledge Felipe Bertoldo
  • Scepticism and Scientism: On the possibility of new principles in the theory of knowledge Felipe Bertoldo
  • “I don’t feel like working today”: Meditations on object uses, exchanges, self-blame, suicidal ideation, and revolution Raphael Chim
  • Maine de Biran and the Dynamism of Habit. The History of French Vitalism Christopher Satoor
  • Transcendental Idealism at Work with Fictional Objects and Names Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Introduction

#62 May 2023

  • Introduction
  • Is Artificial Intelligence Self-Conscious? Or: How to bark up the wrong tree Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Vital Signs: Capitalism, Aspiration, and Intensity Jack Graveney
  • Existence and Psychosis: Between Ludwig Binswanger and Henri Maldiney Turner Roth
  • Rousseau’s Teeter-Tawter: Inmate Reflections on a Prison Mural Trent Portigal
  • Vital Signs: Capitalism, Aspiration, and Intensity Jack Graveney
  • Rousseau’s Teeter-Tawter: Inmate Reflections on a Prison Mural Trent Portigal
  • Is Artificial Intelligence Self-Conscious? Or: How to bark up the wrong tree Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Existence and Psychosis: Between Ludwig Binswanger and Henri Maldiney Turner Roth
  • Introduction

#61 April 2023

  • Introduction
  • Too Much or Never Enough: Excess, Success, and Happiness under Capitalism Jack Graveney
  • Unsaturated Entities and the Unity of Science Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Reading Cicero’s “De Amicitia” at 17 Frank Breslin
  • Mad Utopias – Using Madness as Political Praxis Riley Clare Valentine
  • Deleuze’s “The Logic of Sense”, (Chapter 9, Ninth Series of the Problematic) Video
  • Reading Cicero’s “De Amicitia” at 17 Frank Breslin
  • Mad Utopias – Using Madness as Political Praxis Riley Clare Valentine
  • Unsaturated Entities and the Unity of Science Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Too Much or Never Enough: Excess, Success, and Happiness under Capitalism Jack Graveney
  • Deleuze’s “The Logic of Sense”, (Chapter 9, Ninth Series of the Problematic) Video
  • Introduction

#60 March 2023

  • Introduction
  • Hannah Arendt: Culture as Care and Resistance Timofei Gerber
  • The Tao of Dialectic Antonio Wolf
  • Do we need an enlightened Anthropocentrism? Erich Fromm and the Contradiction of Human Existence Florian Maiwald
  • In a Manner of Speaking: A vindication of potential infinity Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Hannah Arendt: Culture as Care and Resistance Timofei Gerber
  • Do we need an enlightened Anthropocentrism? Erich Fromm and the Contradiction of Human Existence Florian Maiwald
  • In a Manner of Speaking: A vindication of potential infinity Ermanno Bencivenga
  • The Tao of Dialectic Antonio Wolf
  • Introduction

#59 February 2023

  • Introduction
  • Daoxue: The Virtue of Being Antonio Wolf
  • God as Transcendental in Kant and Hegel – from Possibility to Actuality Andrew Karpinski
  • Madwomen and Witches: Terror-Inspired Sublimity in Women’s Embodied Literature Ruska Mumladze
  • Music, Art for the Soul Rowan Anderson
  • Daoxue: The Virtue of Being Antonio Wolf
  • God as Transcendental in Kant and Hegel – from Possibility to Actuality Andrew Karpinski
  • Music, Art for the Soul Rowan Anderson
  • Introduction
  • Madwomen and Witches: Terror-Inspired Sublimity in Women’s Embodied Literature Ruska Mumladze

#58 January 2023

  • Introduction
  • Philosophy and Common Sense Stephen Leach
  • What Is Knowledge? An immanent critique of education Zifeng
  • Incompatible Parameters in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Marx’s Concept of Activity Marc Choufany
  • Incompatible Parameters in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond Ermanno Bencivenga
  • What Is Knowledge? An immanent critique of education Zifeng
  • Philosophy and Common Sense Stephen Leach
  • Marx’s Concept of Activity Marc Choufany
  • Introduction

#57 November 2022

  • Introduction
  • The Quantum Synthesis of The World: A Kantian resolution of the mystery of quantum mechanics Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Negativity and Aletheia of Being in Fichte Jovan Mitić
  • After Magritte #5: Hegel at the Beach Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
  • Kant’s “The Transcendental Aesthetic (Part I, Of Space)” Video
  • After Magritte #5: Hegel at the Beach Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
  • Negativity and Aletheia of Being in Fichte Jovan Mitić
  • The Quantum Synthesis of The World: A Kantian resolution of the mystery of quantum mechanics Ermanno Bencivenga
  • Kant’s “The Transcendental Aesthetic (Part I, Of Space)” Video
  • Introduction

#56 October 2022

  • Introduction
  • The Influence of Plato on Schelling’s Living Cosmos: the “Timaeus”, the “Freedom Essay,” and “Ages of the World” Christopher Satoor
  • The Marquis de Sade and Immanuel Kant: The Odd Couple Stephen Leach
  • The Aporetics of Longtermism: Are You Morally Obligated to Future Persons? Elliott R. Crozat
  • The Burden of Freedom: Sartre’s Sleep and Fromm’s Awakening Florian Maiwald
  • The Burden of Freedom: Sartre’s Sleep and Fromm’s Awakening Florian Maiwald
  • The Aporetics of Longtermism: Are You Morally Obligated to Future Persons? Elliott R. Crozat
  • The Influence of Plato on Schelling’s Living Cosmos: the “Timaeus”, the “Freedom Essay,” and “Ages of the World” Christopher Satoor
  • The Marquis de Sade and Immanuel Kant: The Odd Couple Stephen Leach
  • Introduction

#55 September 2022

  • Introduction
  • Liberty and Its Limits: A personal reflection Arianna Marchetti
  • To build a universalism from Japan: Neo-Norinagism Raphael Chim
  • The Democratic Importance of William James (a dialogue with T. Gerber) J. Edward Hackett
  • The Materiality of Politics: Reading the Works of ORLAN and Stelarc Ayush Jain
  • Liberty and Its Limits: A personal reflection Arianna Marchetti
  • The Democratic Importance of William James (a dialogue with T. Gerber) J. Edward Hackett
  • To build a universalism from Japan: Neo-Norinagism Raphael Chim
  • The Materiality of Politics: Reading the Works of ORLAN and Stelarc Ayush Jain
  • Introduction

#54 July 2022

  • Introduction
  • The Pragmatism of William James Timofei Gerber
  • Hegel’s 1803 Ethics: Perception and the General Will Antonio Wolf
  • Deleuze on Ideas, Dialectics, and Multiplicities John C. Brady
  • Overturning the Catechism: A Catholic Argument for Abortion Riley Clare Valentine
  • Deleuze’s “Ideas and The Synthesis of Difference” Video
  • The Pragmatism of William James Timofei Gerber
  • Overturning the Catechism: A Catholic Argument for Abortion Riley Clare Valentine
  • Introduction
  • Deleuze’s “Ideas and The Synthesis of Difference” Video
  • Deleuze on Ideas, Dialectics, and Multiplicities John C. Brady
  • Hegel’s 1803 Ethics: Perception and the General Will Antonio Wolf

#53 June 2022

  • Introduction
  • Dialectic of the Public and Private Uses of Reason: Kant and Lacan Zifeng
  • Hegel’s 1803 Ethics: Rationalism and the Moral Law Antonio Wolf
  • The Comeback Of Leibnizian Optimism Arianna Marchetti
  • Bergson on Problems John C. Brady
  • Hegel’s 1803 Ethics: Rationalism and the Moral Law Antonio Wolf
  • Dialectic of the Public and Private Uses of Reason: Kant and Lacan Zifeng
  • Bergson on Problems John C. Brady
  • The Comeback Of Leibnizian Optimism Arianna Marchetti
  • Introduction

#52 May 2022

  • Introduction
  • Hegel’s 1803 Ethics: Empiricism and the State of Nature Antonio Wolf
  • Hegel’s Conceptual Materialism: Finding Meaning in the Material World Jarrad Felgenhauer
  • By the shores of the inverted sea: Resistance, Contentment, and Extinction in Motoori Norinaga Raphael Chim
  • Border Crossing in the Time of Pandemic: COVID-19, mobility, belonging, and citizenship Edward Shiener
  • Border Crossing in the Time of Pandemic: COVID-19, mobility, belonging, and citizenship Edward Shiener
  • Hegel’s 1803 Ethics: Empiricism and the State of Nature Antonio Wolf
  • Hegel’s Conceptual Materialism: Finding Meaning in the Material World Jarrad Felgenhauer
  • By the shores of the inverted sea: Resistance, Contentment, and Extinction in Motoori Norinaga Raphael Chim
  • Introduction

#51 April 2022

  • Introduction
  • Recollection & Life: Bergson’s Metaphysics of Memory Rowan Anderson
  • The Reality That Would Be Dreamed: George MacDonald’s “Lilith” as a Response to Solipsistic Illusion Antonio Wolf
  • With Them Without Words: A non-dual heritage of future language in Tzara, Derrida, Schlegel, and beyond Timothy Lavenz
  • Mantriatic Reality and Living After Postmodernity Diego Galán
  • Mantriatic Reality and Living After Postmodernity Diego Galán
  • With Them Without Words: A non-dual heritage of future language in Tzara, Derrida, Schlegel, and beyond Timothy Lavenz
  • Recollection & Life: Bergson’s Metaphysics of Memory Rowan Anderson
  • The Reality That Would Be Dreamed: George MacDonald’s “Lilith” as a Response to Solipsistic Illusion Antonio Wolf
  • Introduction

#50 March 2022

  • Introduction
  • Creative Recollection: Bergson’s Theory of Memory Rowan Anderson
  • In The Depths We Sing: Psyche and depth in Motoori Norinaga Raphael Chim
  • Hegel’s True Infinite – Beyond Immanence and Transcendence Andrew Karpinski
  • Amilcar Cabral and John Dewey: For a Culture of Learning and Liberation Trent Portigal
  • Amilcar Cabral and John Dewey: For a Culture of Learning and Liberation Trent Portigal
  • In The Depths We Sing: Psyche and depth in Motoori Norinaga Raphael Chim
  • Hegel’s True Infinite – Beyond Immanence and Transcendence Andrew Karpinski
  • Creative Recollection: Bergson’s Theory of Memory Rowan Anderson
  • Introduction

#49 February 2022

  • Introduction
  • Intact Bodies: The Ambivalence of The Natural and The Normal in conversation with Clare Chambers
  • Walter Benjamin and the Language of Disability Riley Clare Valentine
  • The Ethical Leviathan – The state in times of social and economic fragility Ivelin M. Zvezdov
  • Limitations of the Limitless: In response to “Reality+” and our VR future Heba Yosry
  • Intact Bodies: The Ambivalence of The Natural and The Normal in conversation with Clare Chambers
  • Walter Benjamin and the Language of Disability Riley Clare Valentine
  • The Ethical Leviathan – The state in times of social and economic fragility Ivelin M. Zvezdov
  • Limitations of the Limitless: In response to “Reality+” and our VR future Heba Yosry
  • Introduction

#48 January 2022

  • Introduction
  • The Near and Far Out: Virtuality, Extended Minds, and Reality+ in conversation with David Chalmers
  • Is a Better World Possible? – John Stuart Mill, Manatees, and the Social Utopia Florian Maiwald
  • The Sign and the Symbolique: Participative Epistemologies from Bergson to Schwaller de Lubicz Nathan Deitcher
  • Spinoza’s “The Ethics (Book III)” Video
  • The Near and Far Out: Virtuality, Extended Minds, and Reality+ in conversation with David Chalmers
  • Is a Better World Possible? – John Stuart Mill, Manatees, and the Social Utopia Florian Maiwald
  • The Sign and the Symbolique: Participative Epistemologies from Bergson to Schwaller de Lubicz Nathan Deitcher
  • Spinoza’s “The Ethics (Book III)” Video
  • Introduction

#47 December 2021

  • Introduction
  • The Ethics of Proximity: A Defense of Different Ethical Duties to Friends and Family Antonio Wolf
  • On Kierkegaard and the Autobiographical Self Timofei Gerber
  • Socrates’ Garden of Letters: On Writing, Relays, and Discourse Trent Portigal
  • The Specter of Reality TV Alexandra Fall
  • On Kierkegaard and the Autobiographical Self Timofei Gerber
  • The Ethics of Proximity: A Defense of Different Ethical Duties to Friends and Family Antonio Wolf
  • Socrates’ Garden of Letters: On Writing, Relays, and Discourse Trent Portigal
  • The Specter of Reality TV Alexandra Fall
  • Introduction

#46 November 2021

  • Introduction
  • A Transcendental Reading of Heidegger’s ‘What is Metaphysics?’ Rowan Anderson
  • Deleuze/Heidegger: Motivation and method in Plato’s search for the simulacrum Derek Hampson
  • The Path’s Forking: Toward a dialetheic account of Heidegger’s Truth Andrej Jovićević
  • New Materialism and Post-Humanism: The Philosophy of Nature, Information, and Technology in conversation with Patrick O'Connor, Bill Ross, and David Webb
  • New Materialism and Post-Humanism: The Philosophy of Nature, Information, and Technology in conversation with Patrick O'Connor, Bill Ross, and David Webb
  • A Transcendental Reading of Heidegger’s ‘What is Metaphysics?’ Rowan Anderson
  • Deleuze/Heidegger: Motivation and method in Plato’s search for the simulacrum Derek Hampson
  • The Path’s Forking: Toward a dialetheic account of Heidegger’s Truth Andrej Jovićević
  • Introduction

#45 October 2021

  • Introduction
  • Becoming-Woman and Ontological Dismemberment: Reflections on women and animals María Luisa Bacarlett Pérez
  • Science, Ideology, and Biopolitics in The Times of Covid-19 Arianna Marchetti
  • Libertarianism as a Programmatically Incoherent Social Philosophy Robert Donoghue
  • Wilhelm Reich on Class Consciousness and Voluntary Servitude Timofei Gerber
  • Science, Ideology, and Biopolitics in The Times of Covid-19 Arianna Marchetti
  • Becoming-Woman and Ontological Dismemberment: Reflections on women and animals María Luisa Bacarlett Pérez
  • Libertarianism as a Programmatically Incoherent Social Philosophy Robert Donoghue
  • Wilhelm Reich on Class Consciousness and Voluntary Servitude Timofei Gerber
  • Wilhelm Reich über Klassenbewusstsein und die freiwillige Knechtschaft Timofei Gerber
  • Introduction

#44 September 2021

  • Introduction
  • Wilhelm Reich on Pleasure and the Genesis of Anxiety Timofei Gerber
  • How To Pull An Ought From An Is: Hegel’s Being to Ought Antonio Wolf
  • Fighting Bodies: A Genealogy of the Ring Giorgi Vachnadze
  • The Structure of Meaning in Experience: Rediscovering that which has been lost Jacob Bell
  • Fighting Bodies: A Genealogy of the Ring Giorgi Vachnadze
  • Wilhelm Reich on Pleasure and the Genesis of Anxiety Timofei Gerber
  • How To Pull An Ought From An Is: Hegel’s Being to Ought Antonio Wolf
  • The Structure of Meaning in Experience: Rediscovering that which has been lost Jacob Bell
  • Introduction

#43 August 2021

  • Introduction
  • Rebel Without a Cause – Reconstructing Free Will in Bergson Rowan Anderson
  • Spinoza, Nietzsche, and the Error of Free Will Daniel Pacheco
  • Émile Benveniste and Linguistic Necessity Trent Portigal
  • The Cult of Life: When the Drive to Life Becomes Deadly Arianna Marchetti
  • Hume’s “Of Personal Identity” Video
  • Émile Benveniste and Linguistic Necessity Trent Portigal
  • Hume’s “Of Personal Identity” Video
  • Spinoza, Nietzsche, and the Error of Free Will Daniel Pacheco
  • Rebel Without a Cause – Reconstructing Free Will in Bergson Rowan Anderson
  • The Cult of Life: When the Drive to Life Becomes Deadly Arianna Marchetti
  • Introduction

#42 July 2021

  • Introduction
  • Alain Badiou – The Theory of Covering and the Ethics of the Idea Timothy Lavenz
  • Nineteenth Century Interpretations of Thought and the Claims of Twenty-First Century Science GW Middleton
  • Views of Reality from Stagecraft, Science, and ‘Nowhere’ Venkat Ramanan
  • Neo-Berkeleyan Meditations on Systems, Rules, Freedom, Death, and the Last of my Kind Raphael Chim
  • Alain Badiou – The Theory of Covering and the Ethics of the Idea Timothy Lavenz
  • Nineteenth Century Interpretations of Thought and the Claims of Twenty-First Century Science GW Middleton
  • Views of Reality from Stagecraft, Science, and ‘Nowhere’ Venkat Ramanan
  • Neo-Berkeleyan Meditations on Systems, Rules, Freedom, Death, and the Last of my Kind Raphael Chim
  • Introduction

#41 June 2021

  • Introduction
  • Sartre on the Body in “Being and Nothingness” Jacob Saliba
  • Concepts Between Kant and Deleuze: From Transcendental Idealism to Transcendental Empiricism Andrej Jovićević
  • Berserk Metaphysics: On the Idea of Evil Antonio Wolf
  • The Future of Thinking in a Digital Age Ronald K.L. Collins
  • Berserk Metaphysics: On the Idea of Evil Antonio Wolf
  • Sartre on the Body in “Being and Nothingness” Jacob Saliba
  • The Future of Thinking in a Digital Age Ronald K.L. Collins
  • Concepts Between Kant and Deleuze: From Transcendental Idealism to Transcendental Empiricism Andrej Jovićević
  • Introduction

#40 May 2021

  • Introduction
  • From Kant Back to Plato: Iris Murdoch’s Moral Philosophy on Love and Vision Eve Y. Lin
  • Initial Baptism of a Prison Mural: Depression-Era Art and Human Closeness Trent Portigal
  • On Psychic and Collective Individuation: From Simondon to Stiegler Matt Bluemink
  • Fichte and Hegel On The Definition of Concepts Antonio Wolf
  • Fichte and Hegel On The Definition of Concepts Antonio Wolf
  • Initial Baptism of a Prison Mural: Depression-Era Art and Human Closeness Trent Portigal
  • On Psychic and Collective Individuation: From Simondon to Stiegler Matt Bluemink
  • Introduction
  • From Kant Back to Plato: Iris Murdoch’s Moral Philosophy on Love and Vision Eve Y. Lin

#39 April 2021

  • Introduction
  • Gabriel Marcel’s ‘Being and Having’: An Interpretation of Embodiment and Being Jacob Saliba
  • Emotional Phenomenology: Franz Brentano and Feeling Theory Daniel Rhodes
  • Inverting Philosophy: A Commentary on Henri Bergson’s ‘An Introduction to Metaphysics’ Rowan Anderson
  • Pre-Individual Intensities: Revisiting Hume’s Identity Problem John C. Brady
  • Gabriel Marcel’s ‘Being and Having’: An Interpretation of Embodiment and Being Jacob Saliba
  • Inverting Philosophy: A Commentary on Henri Bergson’s ‘An Introduction to Metaphysics’ Rowan Anderson
  • Emotional Phenomenology: Franz Brentano and Feeling Theory Daniel Rhodes
  • Introduction
  • Pre-Individual Intensities: Revisiting Hume’s Identity Problem John C. Brady

#38 March 2021

  • Introduction
  • Windowmancy and the New Poverty Trent Portigal
  • The Magnanimity of Spirit: On the Human Consideration of Animals Antonio Wolf
  • The Gig Economy, Flexibility, and Workplace Freedom Robert Donoghue
  • Once Upon a Gaze: On a missing column at the Acropolis of Athens Konstantinos Poulis
  • The Magnanimity of Spirit: On the Human Consideration of Animals Antonio Wolf
  • Once Upon a Gaze: On a missing column at the Acropolis of Athens Konstantinos Poulis
  • The Gig Economy, Flexibility, and Workplace Freedom Robert Donoghue
  • Windowmancy and the New Poverty Trent Portigal
  • Introduction

#37 February 2021

  • Introduction
  • Parachute Woman: Simone Weil’s Front-Line Nurses Proposal Ronald K.L. Collins
  • The Phenomenological Panopticon and the Historical a Priori: Towards a Genealogy of the Transcendental Subject Giorgi Vachnadze
  • Truth, Belief and Illusion in Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” Declan Lloyd
  • Spinoza and “Anti-Oedipus.” On Desiring One’s Own Suppression Timofei Gerber
  • Leibniz’s “The Monadology” Video
  • Parachute Woman: Simone Weil’s Front-Line Nurses Proposal Ronald K.L. Collins
  • Spinoza and “Anti-Oedipus.” On Desiring One’s Own Suppression Timofei Gerber
  • Truth, Belief and Illusion in Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” Declan Lloyd
  • The Phenomenological Panopticon and the Historical a Priori: Towards a Genealogy of the Transcendental Subject Giorgi Vachnadze
  • Leibniz’s “The Monadology” Video
  • Introduction

#36 December 2020

  • Introduction
  • On Virtuality: Deleuze, Bergson, Simondon Matt Bluemink
  • What Is A Monad? Leibniz’s Monadology John C. Brady
  • Phenomenology — Eine Übersichtliche Darstellung Giorgi Vachnadze
  • Some Notes on Berkeley and the After-life Raphael Chim
  • Introduction
  • On Virtuality: Deleuze, Bergson, Simondon Matt Bluemink
  • What Is A Monad? Leibniz’s Monadology John C. Brady
  • Phenomenology — Eine Übersichtliche Darstellung Giorgi Vachnadze
  • Some Notes on Berkeley and the After-life Raphael Chim

#35 October 2020

  • Introduction
  • The Octopus and the Machine Samuel Ludford
  • An Examination of Bullshit Elliott R. Crozat
  • Advanced Abstention. Democracy, Anarchism and Anti-Vote Candidates Trent Portigal
  • Angelic Progress — Walter Benjamin and Liberal Destruction Riley Clare Valentine
  • The Octopus and the Machine Samuel Ludford
  • Introduction
  • An Examination of Bullshit Elliott R. Crozat
  • Advanced Abstention. Democracy, Anarchism and Anti-Vote Candidates Trent Portigal
  • Angelic Progress — Walter Benjamin and Liberal Destruction Riley Clare Valentine

#34 September 2020

  • Introduction
  • Gilbert Simondon and the Process of Individuation Matt Bluemink
  • Deleuze on Problems, Singularities, and Events John C. Brady
  • An Impersonal Liberalism: Simone Weil and the Sacred Riley Clare Valentine
  • The Agency of Objects Ron Richardson
  • Marx’s “The Fetishism of The Commodity And Its Secret” Video
  • Gilbert Simondon and the Process of Individuation Matt Bluemink
  • Introduction
  • Deleuze on Problems, Singularities, and Events John C. Brady
  • An Impersonal Liberalism: Simone Weil and the Sacred Riley Clare Valentine
  • The Agency of Objects Ron Richardson
  • Marx’s “The Fetishism of The Commodity And Its Secret” Video

#33 July 2020

  • Introduction
  • Gaze Against the Machine: Counter-visuality and hyperreal strategies in the Hong Kong protests George Harry James
  • Micro-Totalitarianism and the Search for a ‘Knowledge of the Whole’ Alex Gooch
  • Sovereign Disregard: On Bataille’s Accursed Share Timothy Lavenz
  • America v. Cartesianism: William James’ Philosophy in the Poetry of Stevens and Frost Roy Carrillo
  • Introduction
  • Gaze Against the Machine: Counter-visuality and hyperreal strategies in the Hong Kong protests George Harry James
  • Micro-Totalitarianism and the Search for a ‘Knowledge of the Whole’ Alex Gooch
  • Sovereign Disregard: On Bataille’s Accursed Share Timothy Lavenz
  • America v. Cartesianism: William James’ Philosophy in the Poetry of Stevens and Frost Roy Carrillo

#32 June 2020

  • Introduction
  • Agency in the Age of Covid Dónal Mac Erlaine
  • Agency: Illusion vs Gestalt. In Response to Sam Harris Cedric Shannon
  • Four Readings of Leo Strauss Alex Gooch
  • Marx and “Anti-Oedipus.” On Desiring One’s Own Suppression Timofei Gerber
  • Introduction
  • Agency in the Age of Covid Dónal Mac Erlaine
  • Agency: Illusion vs Gestalt. In Response to Sam Harris Cedric Shannon
  • Four Readings of Leo Strauss Alex Gooch
  • Marx and “Anti-Oedipus.” On Desiring One’s Own Suppression Timofei Gerber

#31 May 2020

  • Introduction
  • The Poverty of Bioethics: Medical Austerity, Distributive Justice, and Disability Anthony James Gavin
  • “Everybody knows the plague is coming”: Thinking the Apocalypse with Leonard Cohen Simone Webb
  • Gilles Deleuze: Tracing Genesis in Kant’s Critique of Judgment Derek Hampson
  • Can We Make Objective Judgements of Taste? Rowan Anderson
  • Introduction
  • The Poverty of Bioethics: Medical Austerity, Distributive Justice, and Disability Anthony James Gavin
  • “Everybody knows the plague is coming”: Thinking the Apocalypse with Leonard Cohen Simone Webb
  • Gilles Deleuze: Tracing Genesis in Kant’s Critique of Judgment Derek Hampson
  • Can We Make Objective Judgements of Taste? Rowan Anderson

#30 April 2020

  • Introduction
  • The Values of the Australian Bushfires Diane Delaurens
  • Beyond the Ruins of Neoliberalism: Diagnosing the Present and Demanding the Future Matt Bluemink
  • Marx and “Anti-Oedipus.” Production, Distribution, Fetishism Timofei Gerber
  • On Antinatalism and Depression Sam Woolfe
  • Introduction
  • The Values of the Australian Bushfires Diane Delaurens
  • Beyond the Ruins of Neoliberalism: Diagnosing the Present and Demanding the Future Matt Bluemink
  • Marx and “Anti-Oedipus.” Production, Distribution, Fetishism Timofei Gerber
  • On Antinatalism and Depression Sam Woolfe

#29 March 2020

  • Introduction
  • Frege & Foucault on the Conditions of Thought John C. Brady
  • The Jester: On the Kinship between Philosophy and Comedy J.P. Pereira
  • Immanent Emerson: The Poetics of Constitution Stephen Essen
  • Introduction
  • Frege & Foucault on the Conditions of Thought John C. Brady
  • The Jester: On the Kinship between Philosophy and Comedy J.P. Pereira
  • Immanent Emerson: The Poetics of Constitution Stephen Essen

#28 January 2020

  • Introduction
  • A Decolonial Feminism in conversation with Françoise Vergès
  • Existentialist Hero vs. Ordinary Language Man: Iris Murdoch Confronting Sartre and Wittgenstein Eve Y. Lin
  • Bringing People Closer: Cicero, Hierocles, and Cosmopolitanism Will Johncock
  • Manufacturing Authenticity: How We Yearn for the Real and Fall for the Fake Martijn Visser
  • Introduction
  • A Decolonial Feminism in conversation with Françoise Vergès
  • Existentialist Hero vs. Ordinary Language Man: Iris Murdoch Confronting Sartre and Wittgenstein Eve Y. Lin
  • Bringing People Closer: Cicero, Hierocles, and Cosmopolitanism Will Johncock
  • Manufacturing Authenticity: How We Yearn for the Real and Fall for the Fake Martijn Visser

#27 December 2019

  • Introduction
  • Self-Defense, Necessary Force, and the Ethics of Modern Warfare in conversation with Helen Frowe
  • Frantz Fanon: Anticolonial Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory Timofei Gerber
  • How to Drive a Car: A Defense of Achievement as Competence Christopher Carroll
  • Why Thoughts Are Not In The Head: Frege on Sense John C. Brady
  • Introduction
  • Self-Defense, Necessary Force, and the Ethics of Modern Warfare in conversation with Helen Frowe
  • How to Drive a Car: A Defense of Achievement as Competence Christopher Carroll
  • Why Thoughts Are Not In The Head: Frege on Sense John C. Brady
  • Frantz Fanon: Anticolonial Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory Timofei Gerber

#26 October 2019

  • Introduction
  • Revisiting Adorno’s “Jargon of Authenticity” (1964) Timofei Gerber
  • How Silent Reading Gave Birth to the Modern Subject Tollef Graff Hugo
  • Some Notes on the Ethics of Knowledge in Plato’s Gorgias John C. Brady
  • Plato’s “Gorgias” Video
  • Introduction
  • Revisiting Adorno’s “Jargon of Authenticity” (1964) Timofei Gerber
  • How Silent Reading Gave Birth to the Modern Subject Tollef Graff Hugo
  • Some Notes on the Ethics of Knowledge in Plato’s Gorgias John C. Brady
  • Plato’s “Gorgias” Video

#25 August 2019

  • Introduction
  • Forced to be Free: Rethinking the Terms of Rousseau’s ‘Social Contract’ Tyler Loveless
  • The Stars Were Not Made For Us: Veganism, ownership, and abolitionism Benedict O’Connell
  • Bergson, Daydreamers, and Sticklers: Seeking Individuation in Laughter Timofei Gerber
  • Foucault’s “Discursive Formations” Video
  • Introduction
  • Forced to be Free: Rethinking the Terms of Rousseau’s ‘Social Contract’ Tyler Loveless
  • The Stars Were Not Made For Us: Veganism, ownership, and abolitionism Benedict O’Connell
  • Bergson, Daydreamers, and Sticklers: Seeking Individuation in Laughter Timofei Gerber
  • Foucault’s “Discursive Formations” Video

#24 July 2019

  • Introduction
  • Stoics Are Already Standing Up Kai Whiting
  • What is the Price of our Attention? Quentin Le Garrec
  • Kant and the Contraption: A Thought Experiment John C. Brady
  • Introduction
  • Stoics Are Already Standing Up Kai Whiting
  • What is the Price of our Attention? Quentin Le Garrec
  • Kant and the Contraption: A Thought Experiment John C. Brady

#23 June 2019

  • Introduction
  • Stand Up, Don’t Be a Stoic! Dannica Fleuss
  • A Short Meditation on Grief Timofei Gerber
  • What is Modern Philosophy? Frank Breslin
  • Reverberating Mazes: Exploring Consciousness with Michel Serres John C. Brady
  • Introduction
  • Stand Up, Don’t Be a Stoic! Dannica Fleuss
  • A Short Meditation on Grief Timofei Gerber
  • What is Modern Philosophy? Frank Breslin
  • Reverberating Mazes: Exploring Consciousness with Michel Serres John C. Brady

#22 April 2019

  • Introduction
  • C.S. Peirce on Science and Belief Brian Kemple
  • Stoic Practical Philosophy: A Guide for Life? Carl O’Brien
  • The Irreducible Instant: Descartes’ Thinking Substance John C. Brady
  • Kierkegaardian Love and Resignation Timofei Gerber
  • Introduction
  • C.S. Peirce on Science and Belief Brian Kemple
  • Stoic Practical Philosophy: A Guide for Life? Carl O’Brien
  • The Irreducible Instant: Descartes’ Thinking Substance John C. Brady
  • Kierkegaardian Love and Resignation Timofei Gerber

#21 March 2019

  • Introduction
  • What’s Wrong with Lewis Carroll’s Tortoise? Thomas Morrison
  • From Habitus to Habits: The Origin of Lifestyle Practices Tami Bulmash
  • Parallax Stephen Hoffman
  • Deleuze’s “The Logic of Sense”, (Chapters 1 & 2) Video
  • Introduction
  • What’s Wrong with Lewis Carroll’s Tortoise? Thomas Morrison
  • From Habitus to Habits: The Origin of Lifestyle Practices Tami Bulmash
  • Parallax Stephen Hoffman
  • Deleuze’s “The Logic of Sense”, (Chapters 1 & 2) Video

#20 February 2019

  • Introduction
  • How Neoliberalism Failed to Keep Fascism at Bay Michaias Grigori
  • Learnification and the Attack on Education Cary Campbell
  • On the Question of Progress in Philosophy John Park
  • Eros and Thanatos: Freud’s two fundamental drives Timofei Gerber
  • Introduction
  • How Neoliberalism Failed to Keep Fascism at Bay Michaias Grigori
  • Learnification and the Attack on Education Cary Campbell
  • On the Question of Progress in Philosophy John Park
  • Eros and Thanatos: Freud’s two fundamental drives Timofei Gerber

#19 January 2019

  • Introduction
  • The Continuity of Being: C.S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Synechism Brian Kemple
  • Against Ontology: A Naturalist Critique on Two Varieties of Mathematical Structuralism Jio Jeong
  • Some Notes on Foucault on Discourse John C. Brady
  • What is Vitalism? Timofei Gerber
  • Introduction
  • The Continuity of Being: C.S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Synechism Brian Kemple
  • Against Ontology: A Naturalist Critique on Two Varieties of Mathematical Structuralism Jio Jeong
  • Some Notes on Foucault on Discourse John C. Brady
  • What is Vitalism? Timofei Gerber

#18 November 2018

  • Introduction
  • A Few Notes on Identity Politics Timofei Gerber
  • Merleau-Ponty, Education, and the Meno Paradox John C. Brady
  • How to end every war, beyond the Derridean horizon, towards Outer Heaven, or a very partial response to “Violence and Metaphysics” Raphael Chim
  • Introduction
  • A Few Notes on Identity Politics Timofei Gerber
  • Merleau-Ponty, Education, and the Meno Paradox John C. Brady
  • How to end every war, beyond the Derridean horizon, towards Outer Heaven, or a very partial response to “Violence and Metaphysics” Raphael Chim

#17 October 2018

  • Introduction
  • Better To Have Loved & Lost: Recognition, Love, And Self Antonio Wolf
  • Who Are The Sellouts? Lancelot Kirby
  • What Laughs at What? Mary Douglas on Humour John C. Brady
  • Merleau-Ponty’s “Association and the Projection of Memories” Video
  • Introduction
  • Better To Have Loved & Lost: Recognition, Love, And Self Antonio Wolf
  • Who Are The Sellouts? Lancelot Kirby
  • What Laughs at What? Mary Douglas on Humour John C. Brady
  • Merleau-Ponty’s “Association and the Projection of Memories” Video

#16 September 2018

  • Introduction
  • Avicenna’s Connotational Attributes, Mickey Mouse, and Sex Dolls Anthony Kroytor
  • Kierkegaard’s Recognition in conversation with Jamie Aroosi
  • Thinking the Political with Thomas Hobbes Timofei Gerber
  • A Problem Based Reading of Nussbaum’s Virtue Ethics John C. Brady
  • Un-coming Raphael Chim
  • Introduction
  • Avicenna’s Connotational Attributes, Mickey Mouse, and Sex Dolls Anthony Kroytor
  • Kierkegaard’s Recognition in conversation with Jamie Aroosi
  • Thinking the Political with Thomas Hobbes Timofei Gerber
  • A Problem Based Reading of Nussbaum’s Virtue Ethics John C. Brady
  • Un-coming Raphael Chim

#15 July 2018

  • Introduction
  • An Aesthetics of Injury from Baudelaire to Tarantino in conversation with Prof. Ian Fleishman
  • Against Consolations, Alain De Botton, and the Demand for Accessibility Ranier Abengaña
  • Narrating Life. Dimensions of the Biographical in “Millenium Actress” Timofei Gerber
  • A Guide to Timothy Morton’s Humankind Omar Baig
  • Pulling the Normative Threads of Heidegger’s ‘Das Man’ John C. Brady
  • Bergson’s “The Possible and The Real” Video
  • Introduction
  • An Aesthetics of Injury from Baudelaire to Tarantino in conversation with Prof. Ian Fleishman
  • Against Consolations, Alain De Botton, and the Demand for Accessibility Ranier Abengaña
  • Narrating Life. Dimensions of the Biographical in “Millenium Actress” Timofei Gerber
  • A Guide to Timothy Morton’s Humankind Omar Baig
  • Pulling the Normative Threads of Heidegger’s ‘Das Man’ John C. Brady
  • Bergson’s “The Possible and The Real” Video

#14 June 2018

  • Introduction
  • The Owl At Dusk: Hegel’s Philosophy of Learning Antonio Wolf
  • Kant and The Idealists’ Reality Problem John C. Brady
  • Revisiting The Art-Life Balance In “The Square” Timofei Gerber
  • Kierkegaard on the Paradox of Faith and Political Commitment Lancelot Kirby
  • Introduction
  • The Owl At Dusk: Hegel’s Philosophy of Learning Antonio Wolf
  • Kant and The Idealists’ Reality Problem John C. Brady
  • Revisiting The Art-Life Balance In “The Square” Timofei Gerber
  • Kierkegaard on the Paradox of Faith and Political Commitment Lancelot Kirby

#13 May 2018

  • Introduction
  • Crooks, Elitists, and the Progress of Philosophy in conversation with Julian Baggini
  • The Problems of Science: What We Do to Things When We Study Them Maarten van Doorn
  • Defending the Classical Languages from the Charges of Racism Carl O’Brien
  • Practicing ‘Literariness’: a reminder for philosophers and philosophasters Cary Campbell
  • The Harmonic Void: Descartes’ Extended Substance John C. Brady
  • Introduction
  • Crooks, Elitists, and the Progress of Philosophy in conversation with Julian Baggini
  • The Problems of Science: What We Do to Things When We Study Them Maarten van Doorn
  • Defending the Classical Languages from the Charges of Racism Carl O’Brien
  • Practicing ‘Literariness’: a reminder for philosophers and philosophasters Cary Campbell
  • The Harmonic Void: Descartes’ Extended Substance John C. Brady

#12 March 2018

  • Introduction
  • Adam Smith as Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker in conversation with Prof. Eric Schliesser
  • Transcendence through Suffering. A Eulogy to Martyrdom Timofei Gerber
  • There’s Something About Walking Justin Richards
  • A Disdain for the Discrete: How Art Transcends Logic and Language Venkat Ramanan
  • Heidegger’s “The Being of the Entities Encountered in the Environment” Video
  • Introduction
  • Adam Smith as Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker in conversation with Prof. Eric Schliesser
  • Transcendence through Suffering. A Eulogy to Martyrdom Timofei Gerber
  • There’s Something About Walking Justin Richards
  • A Disdain for the Discrete: How Art Transcends Logic and Language Venkat Ramanan
  • Heidegger’s “The Being of the Entities Encountered in the Environment” Video

#11 February 2018

  • Introduction
  • Nietzsche’s Rift: Heidegger’s Pathway to Thinking Justin Richards
  • Chaplin’s Stuttering Body. The Utopian Potential of Film Timofei Gerber
  • Ships, Persons, and Hegelian Selves Antonio Wolf
  • Navigating Post Truth: Nietzsche Contra Plato John C. Brady
  • Introduction
  • Nietzsche’s Rift: Heidegger’s Pathway to Thinking Justin Richards
  • Chaplin’s Stuttering Body. The Utopian Potential of Film Timofei Gerber
  • Ships, Persons, and Hegelian Selves Antonio Wolf
  • Navigating Post Truth: Nietzsche Contra Plato John C. Brady

#10 January 2018

  • Introduction
  • Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf — Accepting the Shadow Frank Breslin
  • The Limits of Dialectics: Logical Necessity And Empirical Contingency Antonio Wolf
  • Nietzsche and Freud on The Subject as Territory John C. Brady
  • On Absurdity. Adorno, Beckett, and the Demise of Existentialism Timofei Gerber
  • Introduction
  • Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf — Accepting the Shadow Frank Breslin
  • The Limits of Dialectics: Logical Necessity And Empirical Contingency Antonio Wolf
  • Nietzsche and Freud on The Subject as Territory John C. Brady
  • On Absurdity. Adorno, Beckett, and the Demise of Existentialism Timofei Gerber

#09 December 2017

  • Introduction
  • On Honneth’s Reification: or why Marx is not (yet) the messiah Daniel Rhodes
  • Coraline and Freud. Distinguishing Being and Semblance Timofei Gerber
  • What is Dasein? John C. Brady
  • Colosseum Blake Stone-Banks
  • Nietzsche’s “How the ‘Real World’ at last Became a Myth” Video
  • Introduction
  • On Honneth’s Reification: or why Marx is not (yet) the messiah Daniel Rhodes
  • Coraline and Freud. Distinguishing Being and Semblance Timofei Gerber
  • What is Dasein? John C. Brady
  • Colosseum Blake Stone-Banks
  • Nietzsche’s “How the ‘Real World’ at last Became a Myth” Video

#08 November 2017

  • Introduction
  • Sublime Borders: Schiller’s Will and Nietzsche’s Will-to-Power Daniel Rhodes
  • Emerson’s Experience: Present and Eternity Colliding Oshan Jarow
  • Giving Thanks: Heidegger’s Pathway into Thinking Justin Richards
  • The Scandal of Qualia: Bergson and Dennett on Interiority John C. Brady
  • Crashing the Metaphysical Party: Walter Benjamin on Knowing and Thinking Timofei Gerber
  • The Negation of Motion Hiroshi Satow
  • Introduction
  • Sublime Borders: Schiller’s Will and Nietzsche’s Will-to-Power Daniel Rhodes
  • Emerson’s Experience: Present and Eternity Colliding Oshan Jarow
  • Giving Thanks: Heidegger’s Pathway into Thinking Justin Richards
  • The Scandal of Qualia: Bergson and Dennett on Interiority John C. Brady
  • Crashing the Metaphysical Party: Walter Benjamin on Knowing and Thinking Timofei Gerber
  • The Negation of Motion Hiroshi Satow

#07 October 2017

  • Introduction
  • Crimes of Logic in Kant’s Universal History Truman Chen
  • Hegel: We’re All Idealists, Just The Bad Kind Antonio Wolf
  • Kierkegaard’s Patience Timofei Gerber
  • The Thing-in-itself: A Problem Child John C. Brady
  • Deleuze’s “The Image of Thought” Video
  • Introduction
  • Crimes of Logic in Kant’s Universal History Truman Chen
  • Hegel: We’re All Idealists, Just The Bad Kind Antonio Wolf
  • Kierkegaard’s Patience Timofei Gerber
  • The Thing-in-itself: A Problem Child John C. Brady
  • Deleuze’s “The Image of Thought” Video

#06 September 2017

  • Introduction
  • A Few Notes On Post-Modernism Timofei Gerber
  • “Ethics Matters”: A New TV Series in conversation with Dan Halliday
  • The Political Dimensions of Time: A Polemic Brendan De Paor-Moore
  • You and I, I and It: Martin Buber’s I and Thou Justin Richards
  • Lacan on Satisfaction John C. Brady
  • Arendt’s “Philosophy & Politics” Video
  • Introduction
  • A Few Notes On Post-Modernism Timofei Gerber
  • “Ethics Matters”: A New TV Series in conversation with Dan Halliday
  • The Political Dimensions of Time: A Polemic Brendan De Paor-Moore
  • You and I, I and It: Martin Buber’s I and Thou Justin Richards
  • Lacan on Satisfaction John C. Brady
  • Arendt’s “Philosophy & Politics” Video

#05 August 2017

  • Introduction
  • Hope Speaks: Eagleton, King Lear, and Star Wars Jedd Cole
  • A Tale of Two Socrates: Part Two Justin Richards
  • Other Than The Present: A Schema for Time Brendan De Paor-Moore
  • Remembering our Limits: The Ritual of Taizé as a Gesture of Humanity Tollef Graff Hugo
  • Adorno’s Negativity: Suffering Devoid of Sense, Sense Without Suffering Timofei Gerber
  • Introduction
  • Hope Speaks: Eagleton, King Lear, and Star Wars Jedd Cole
  • A Tale of Two Socrates: Part Two Justin Richards
  • Other Than The Present: A Schema for Time Brendan De Paor-Moore
  • Remembering our Limits: The Ritual of Taizé as a Gesture of Humanity Tollef Graff Hugo
  • Adorno’s Negativity: Suffering Devoid of Sense, Sense Without Suffering Timofei Gerber

#04 July 2017

  • Introduction
  • Into Abstraction and Back Again Tollef Graff Hugo
  • What is a Law of Nature? Andrés Ruiz
  • A Tale of Two Socrates: Part One Justin Richards
  • Revisiting the Noumenon John C. Brady
  • Finding Meaning in Decay: Bill Morrison’s DECASIA Timofei Gerber
  • Introduction
  • Into Abstraction and Back Again Tollef Graff Hugo
  • What is a Law of Nature? Andrés Ruiz
  • A Tale of Two Socrates: Part One Justin Richards
  • Finding Meaning in Decay: Bill Morrison’s DECASIA Timofei Gerber
  • Revisiting the Noumenon John C. Brady

#03 June 2017

  • Introduction
  • Bergson — Philosophy as Attention Timofei Gerber
  • Thoreau on Friendship and Solitude Justin Richards
  • Can Evolution Debunk our Moral Beliefs? Andrés Ruiz
  • Deleuze on Sense, Series, Structures, Signifiers and Snarks (Part A) John C. Brady
  • Deleuze on Sense, Series, Structures, Signifiers and Snarks (Part B) John C. Brady
  • Freud’s “The Ego & The Id” Video
  • Introduction
  • Bergson — Philosophy as Attention Timofei Gerber
  • Thoreau on Friendship and Solitude Justin Richards
  • Can Evolution Debunk our Moral Beliefs? Andrés Ruiz
  • Deleuze on Sense, Series, Structures, Signifiers and Snarks (Part A) John C. Brady
  • Deleuze on Sense, Series, Structures, Signifiers and Snarks (Part B) John C. Brady
  • Freud’s “The Ego & The Id” Video

#02 May 2017

  • Introduction
  • Freud on The Subject/Object Division John C. Brady
  • Anomalisa, or The Effort of Recognition Timofei Gerber
  • Enframing, Inhabitation, Skateboarding Justin Richards
  • Individualism from a Hegelian Perspective Cheong Cheng Wen
  • Bergson with “Deleuze’s Grounding Heuristic” John C. Brady
  • Introduction
  • Freud on The Subject/Object Division John C. Brady
  • Anomalisa, or The Effort of Recognition Timofei Gerber
  • Enframing, Inhabitation, Skateboarding Justin Richards
  • Individualism from a Hegelian Perspective Cheong Cheng Wen
  • Bergson with “Deleuze’s Grounding Heuristic” John C. Brady

#01 April 2017

  • Introduction
  • Heidegger’s “Question of Technology” Justin Richards
  • Concept: Using a Deleuzian Axiom as Heuristic John C. Brady
  • Plotting Escape Routes: Individuation in 1984 and Brazil (1985) Timofei Gerber
  • Astral Escapism, or “Collective Dreaming in The Visage of China” Jordan Mitchell
  • The White and Almost Bones Brendan De Paor-Moore
  • Introduction
  • Heidegger’s “Question of Technology” Justin Richards
  • Concept: Using a Deleuzian Axiom as Heuristic John C. Brady
  • Plotting Escape Routes: Individuation in 1984 and Brazil (1985) Timofei Gerber
  • Astral Escapism, or “Collective Dreaming in The Visage of China” Jordan Mitchell
  • The White and Almost Bones Brendan De Paor-Moore