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Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger     I.   At a 6/20 talk the other day on Walter Benjamin [1] , some cle...

ITMA: Byung-Chul Han     IV. The Information Society It could be argued that philosophy begins and ends in Plato's Cave. At any rate, th...

David Spriggs: Transparency Report (2014) davidspriggs.art       III.  The Society of Pornography If we must engage in aesthetics, then it...

Hühnergeist (SA/2021)     A sub-species of a good-looking bird from Southeast Asia known as the red juglefowl, chickens were originally rear...

    I.    We all know Heidegger's magnificent response to Sartre's post-War declaration that l'existentialisme est un humanisme ...

Thanks for the memory / Of faults that you forgave Of rainbows on a wave / And stockings in the basin When a fellow needs a shave ......

One of three images for the Destroying nature is destroying life campaign  by the environmental group Robin Wood (2016) I. So...

"What is dangerous", writes Heidegger, "is not technology. ... The essence of technology, as a destining of reveali...

Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times  (1936) According to Blanchot, Nietzsche is quick to grasp that all the modern world’s seriousness i...

Image taken from Nolen Gertz's amusing blog: ethicistforhire.blogspot.co.uk The idea of tying the concept of care exclusively...

Christians, who are passionately devoted to the Word, are equally fervent in their opposition to idle gossip and foolish ...

André Breton was not the last to describe and attempt to dismiss Bataille as an excremental philosopher . But such a characterization...