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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) Master of the argumentum ad hominem   I.   Academic philosophers, who like to take a serious and professio...

  Adapted from the poster for I Am Greta (a documentary film dir. Nathan Grossman, 2020)   I.    Byung-Chul Han says that the idiot has all...

Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Autumn (1573)   "I notice that autumn is more a season of the soul than nature ..."      Ever since childho...

La philosophie est une introduction  à un monde scandaleux     I.    In his late work, Deleuze famously defines philosophy as the invention ...

Franz Gareis: portrait of Novalis (1799) The 18th-century German poet and mystic known as Novalis was fond of the phrase: Philosop...

Everything I know I learned in  the School of Vice! I. Reading a fragment by Cioran in which he advises the philosopher who...

To play this classic 1979 punk single click here .   A woman emails to let me know she  fundamentally disagrees  with almost every...

(Penguin, 2018) According to Graham Harman, Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) is first and foremost a form of realism. It is thus a cou...

Portrait of Nietzsche as a Young Professor  University of Basel, 1872 What Nietzsche terms in his early writings the knowledge d...

Photo of  the poet-philosopher  Simon Solomon, by Sara Larsson (2015).    simonsolomon.ink Here we are then at the fag end of a...

Snake is one of Lawrence's most widely known poems, subject to numerous critical readings. But perhaps the best of these - ce...

Image by Dick Whyte One of the things I like about Deleuze is that he never gave up on philosophy. That is to say, he never had an...