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The Polish word gruz can be translated as rubble, ruins, wreckage. There is no doubt, then, that director Paweł Pawlikowski intends something specific by having one of his protagonists bear that name. This is not, however, a statement about authorial intent. Instead, this… more ›
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Recently I read Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. I liked it well enough. It offers an erudite reading and counter-reading to “the plant” within the metaphysical tradition (Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, etc.) as well as within the… more ›
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Philosophy in Mexico, philosophy in Latin America has suffered the loss of its most distinguished cultivators. Faced with so painful a fact, these words, devoid of serenity and written with a still heavy heart, want to express the confidence that… more ›
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Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 Simulacra and Simulation, translated by Sheila Faria Glaser in 1994, contains a four-page essay entitled “Hypermarket and Hypercommodity.” This short essay articulates the structure of the media in this way: “neither information nor communication, but referendum, perpetual… more ›
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Resistances: The Problem of Fascism Walter Benjamin on fascism George Bataille on fascism Emmanuel Lévinas on fascism Jan Patočka on resistance Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism Michel Foucault on resistance Slavoj Žižek on violence and resistance Giorgio Agamben on totalitarianism and… more ›
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What is meant as a valiant stand against the decline of reading is actually a symptom of it, and then a cause. The fear of dumbing down leads to thinning out. We conspire in an unspoken agreement that our carefully… more ›
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The Humanities! The very name should call up something wild. From the moment Socrates started wandering the Greek market and driving Athenian aristocrats to their wits end, their place has always been out in the world, making connections between the… more ›
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I’ve been a fan of Brendan Nash’s blog and I’ve been following him on Twitter since this past summer. When I was in Berlin in October, I was able to take his Christopher Isherwood walking tour, which was excellent and enjoyable.… more ›
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From October 1995 to February 1996 I lived in Poland. I was conducting research on representations of the Holocaust, both historical as well as artistic, for my master’s thesis. Concurrently, I was enrolled in the Polish program at the Catholic… more ›