Love’s Labor: Irigaray, Hegel and Revolution

Luce Irigaray points out in I love to you that Hegel conceives of love as a form of labor. In fact, Continue reading →

Biological Essentialism, State Ideology, and the Need for a Phenomenological Paradigm Shift

In analyzing modern political discourse in the West, identity is increasingly a recurring theme in heated debates surrounding rights frameworks, Continue reading →

Apocalypse Now? What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Believe

Many of Stephen Hawking’s final written words presage doom. Clearly no amount of knowledge can resist a looming apocalypse. “We Continue reading →

Cyberpunk 2.0: Re-imagining the Future

Asia was the future, and this is what it would look like. For a while, perhaps even still, it held Continue reading →

Trump: Hegel’s World Historical Individual?

Recently I read an interesting article from Gideon Rachman. As the chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times, he Continue reading →

Seoul Stories: Han Kang, Violence and Candlelight

The day I stood shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands of my fellow civilians, staring down the barrels of Continue reading →

How Green Party Policy Would Resuscitate the BBC

True democracy can only be achieved through a properly informed public. This is the maxim on which the Green Party Continue reading →

Election 2015: The TTIPing point

The TTIPing point: TTIP Versus Cigarette Legislation MPs have voted by a majority of 254 to strip branding from cigarette Continue reading →