The Philosopher's Guide to Watching Everything Fall Apart (And What to Do About It) | Part One: Walter Benjamin's Angel of History
“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...
The Line Between Idealism and Misanthropy
1. The most challenging aspect of being human right now? > “Being human itself. Belonging to the human race. With its violence, prejudice, evil, greediness and shortsightedness. For 2025 I might get...
Beware: Capital No Longer Needs Consumers
In Hegel’s Master/Slave dialectic, the dialectic is resolved when the Master realizes his dependence on the Slave, who produces the goods that maintain the Master’s life —mutual recognition becomes...
