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....
From murder mystery to true crime, to realpolitik, to political philosophy.
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...
This session details the meticulous process of creating a syllabus for a six-week, one-credit online course titled “Philosophy of Work and Leisure” at Smarties University. The course, structured with...
Today it began. We started our venture of creating our own Philosophy courses. You can come along with me on the course I’m making, or you can run parallel to me and create your own course for...
To the uninitiated, the world of philosophy can often appear to be little more than an endless, arcane debate. Why do philosophers seem to revel in challenging every assumption, dissecting every...
I was really inspired by ’s post for autodidacts, “How to Create Your Own University Course to Teach Yourself Almost Anything,” where Settecase shows readers how to create a course on any topic, then...
--- ALL YOUR FAVORITE SUBSTACK PHILOSOPHERS AND HUMANISTS IN ONE COMMON FEED. BEHOLD All THE TRUTH, GOODNESS, AND BEAUTY! 📣 Announcing Substack Philosophers’ Alliance (in Beta) This is like a...
1. Don’t Watch This… No Need 2. Tilt-tillating Transcript Bits “GRANDAD: …it's good for many many things it's going to be magnificent in healthcare and education and more or less any industry that...
How can I understand you, what you are feeling and thinking? Why you do the things you do? You are that part of my experience that is not me, and you have the power to affect our shared world. Even...