Unbuilding Walls, 1: Brick and Mortar

“He wanted a territory. He felt the need for caution. But he felt more strongly the need that had brought Continue reading →

What’s Wrong With Streaming? The Death of Music as Art

The music that we listen to is something that we rightfully see as very important to our sense of self, Continue reading →

[Hegel’s Glas]ses

It is a rare opportunity for a philosopher to have occasion to comment, not upon the written content of a Continue reading →

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 →

The Quixote Sub Specie Aeternitatis: The Philosophical Significance of the Spanish Golden Age

Todo es mentira, ya verás La poesía es la única verdad   Sacar belleza de este caos es virtud – Continue reading →

What Kant Means Today

When you look at a giant philosophical tome, such as here in front of me, The Critique of Pure Reason, 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 →