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Is Pluralism the New Orthodoxy in Global Art?

“What am I driving at? At this idea: that no one colonizes innocently, that no one colonizes with impunity either; that a nation which colonizes, that a civilization which justifies colonization—and therefore force—is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased.” —Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham,…

ByNarendra PachkhédéMay 4, 20250Comments

Against the Tyranny of Fragmentation: Why Gregory Bateson Must Be Read in an Age of Genocide

“There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds, and its characteristic of the system that basic error propagates itself." — Gregory Bateson, Pathologies of Epistemology, 1971 The…

ByNarendra PachkhédéJanuary 2, 20250Comments

Philosophy Uncategorized

“He Has Lit a Funeral Pyre in Everyone’s Home”

Dear Kamran Baradaran, Your question is complex—“what does it mean to be a philosopher in the middle of a pandemic in India”. Philosopher has no adjective—national, linguistic, and even of schools. In your question “the pan” or “the whole“ of the “pandemic” (what has befallen the whole) speaks of that which exceeds adjectives such as…

ByShaj MohanFebruary 10, 20240Comments

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Why “Philosophy-World-Democracy” matters? Vital Emergence of a New Beginning

There is a new “It” journal—Philosophy World Democracy. It has all the ingredients which make a great journal and a historic moment in philosophy as the “Ends of Man” conference organised by Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-Luc Nancy did in 1980. In fact, Philosophy World Democracy can be traced to that event called “Ends of Man”,…

ByKamran BaradaranFebruary 10, 20240Comments

Philosophy POLITICS Uncategorized

BECOMING VIAGRA AND CHLOROQUINE: Essay on Toxic-Subjectivities

CARTOGRAPHY OF VULNERABILITY If we really think about vulnerability during the pandemic period of COVID-19, we should say that this feeling is widespread. Every single person feels vulnerable to the virus. It is a sort of becoming trans* of the world. However, it is necessary to sketch out a cartography of vulnerability in Latin America.…

ByAlessandra MawuFebruary 10, 20240Comments

Notes On Suicide

Two years after Jean Améry’s On Suicide was published in 1976, the author took an overdose of sleeping pills. He was 65. In 1960, some eighteen years after Albert Camus had raised and – so he thought – resolved the question of suicide in The Myth of Sisyphus, he was killed in a car accident.…

BySimon CritchleyFebruary 10, 20240Comments

The Marvelous Births of Jean-Luc Nancy

Happy birthday to you my dearest Jean-Luc! I do not know the name of my relation to you as it evades capture while its births never cease to surprise me. Friend, yes, because it is a word, like “being”, that is able to gather nearly every relationship and occasion. In the beginning I was a…

ByShaj MohanFebruary 10, 20240Comments

Philosophy POLITICS

The Macabre Measure of Dalit-Bahujan Mobilisations

Another Dalit girl is dead after being brutally raped, tortured and mutilated by upper caste men (Thakur caste belonging to the savarna Kshatriya varna) on 14 September in Hathras village in Uttar Pradesh, where ten rapes are committed every day according to official statistics, while many others go unreported. Hereby, another human identified as untouchable by…

ByDivya DwivediFebruary 10, 20240Comments

Philosophy POLITICS

The Postnormal Perfect Storm 2

THE COVID CHRONICLES: THE POSTNORMAL PERFECT STORM - IN THREE PARTS PART 2: NAVIGATING THE CRISIS What do we know about Covid-19? Well, we know where it originated, how it spread, and have a rough idea of its contagion levels. We know that the spread of the virus has been matched by the spread of…

ByJordi Serra del PinoFebruary 10, 20240Comments

INTERVIEWS Philosophy POLITICS

Costas Douzinas on People to People Solidarity, the Rise of the Right-Wing in Europe, Syriza In Power, and Refugees and the EU.

Qalandar Bux Memon: Can you please talk about the spaces in Greece that opened up, started by the people who were trying to support and help the refugees and by refugees? Costas Douzinas: Yeah, the solidarity centers - which flourished in the last few years. They were helped by, not so much by the government,…

ByCostas DouzinasFebruary 10, 20240Comments