“… it had not been easy to decide whether to give the first place to Sartre or to her. If Sartre showed great intelligence and a solid, if at times inexact, culture [i.e., breadth of learning],...

"It is against this [patriarchal] authority that women and young men have become allies." —Carla Lonzi, "Let's Spit on Hegel" Carla Lonzi (1931-1982) was an Italian art critic who co-founded Rivolta...

God's-Eye-View blew up and hit #1 repo on Github in the last week of August. It is an open-source, browser-based "spy satellite simulator" built on real public data feeds. It integrates flight...

Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia's own experience with chronic illness exposed the gaps in Descartes' mind-body dualism — showing him, and us, how little ground for optimism his notion of reason's autonomy really offers.

A recap of the ground covered in the Feminist Romp Through the History of Philosophy — from Plato and Aristotle through Descartes, Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, and Beauvoir — plus an invitation to join the Fall cohort.

"The very existence of the state depends on proportionate reciprocity; for men demand that they shall be able to requite evil with evil— if they cannot, they feel they are in the position of...

Making our way through Irigaray's An Ethics of Sexual Difference, we have arrived at the posing of the question of sexual difference.

Luce Irigaray’s ironic mimicry of Heidegger in the introductory essay, “Sexual Difference.”

An Ethics of Sexual Difference (1993) The essay I'll be talking about is called "Sexual Difference." It begins: "Sexual difference is one of the major philosophical issues, if not the issue, of our...

I have learned to be suspicious of myself, of my motives and my desires, psychoanalysis taught us as much. But now I think we should rather interrogate the desires and motives we do not feel as well....

In Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Michael Foucault traces the transition from a system of public punishment and torture to the privatization of punishment through the creation of...

In *State of Exception* (the second volume in the series entitled Homo Sacer), Giorgio Agamben examines how governments avail themselves of states of emergency to assume extra-legal powers under the guise of protecting the public interest.

Yesterday I got the little pop-up notice to agree to new terms of service and promptly deleted the TikTok app. Unlike that other time that I also thought TikTok was dead and deleted the app (I wrote...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; -- Yeats, The Second Coming Tell me if you can relate to this, but these past weeks I have been thinking about the role of artists and thinkers in difficult...

“His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would...

In previous parts of this series, we saw how work is depoliticized when it is relegated to the private realm of individual choice. Working to politicize work in much the same ways that feminists have...

One of the big ideas in Linda Williams’s piece on “body genres” in film theory is that perversion should not be used as a pejorative term to condemn some sexualities over others, i.e., to condemn any...

In previous parts of this series, we saw how work is depoliticized by being relegated to the private realm of individual choice. Working to re-politicize work, much like feminists politicized the...

In the first part of this series, we explored how both work and marriage are framed as private, individual matters, even though the state actively structures and enforces both arrangements. We’re...

Kathi Weeks begins The Problem with Work with this brilliant insight that work and marriage are analogous social institutions. Much of her analysis hangs on this analogy, which extends across the...