Tag: Body

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...

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...

--- Imagine you are sitting in a hotel conference room and all of a sudden the lights go out. You feel a lot of movement around you, maybe someone brushes past you quickly with a whoosh. When the...

On first glance, Phenomenology and Psychology may seem like similar disciplines, and the relationship between them is super interesting, so thank you anon subscriber for asking after this. Here is my...

The Fear, Fantasy, and the Real Material Conditions The public conversation about Large Language Models (LLMs, collectively referred to as AI) has revolved around fears and fantasies as depicted in...

Once we get to Modern Philosophy, concepts of space become more familiar and consequently feel more “real.” It is difficult for us to relate to space as a whirling receptacle steered by Goddesses; or...

In her classic “Hairy Cobblers and Philosopher Queens,” Elizabeth Spellman shows us how Plato argues for the education of women alongside men, and for the inclusion of women in all social classes...

The essays collected under the title On Female Body Experience represent twenty years of work in feminist phenomenology by one of its chief practitioners, Iris Marion Young. These essays showcase...

Queer has the bad reputation of being undefinable, but we will nonetheless offer three or four ways of understanding “queer,” here organized from the most general to the most narrow.1 The most...

This piece explores the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ideas about how our relationship to the world and to ourselves is shaped by our interactions with primordial others. "Primordial otherness"...

Questioner: I've been feeling a bit lost lately. I've faced some hard challenges that make me question everything and I don’t know if my reactions and opinions are actually mine. I think that growing...

Imagine someone walking down a busy street engrossed in their smartphone, completely oblivious to their surroundings. Suddenly, they walk straight into a lamppost. The immediate, almost reflexive...