The Paradox of China’s Crypto Regulation and Capital Going Global (Part 1)
How China's Web3 Is Shifting from Token Finance to Data and State Credit
On November 28, 2025, the People’s Bank of China convened a meeting...
Good Work and Economic Democracy
Many political philosophers argue that all people are entitled as a matter of justice to real access to good work: skilled work that affords...
Nostalgic Longing for Childhood
Within popular culture, literature, television, and film, nostalgia is often (if not invariably) associated with childhood. From Proust to Tarkovsky up to modern outputs...
Why We Need a Formal, Mandatory, and Remunerated “Citizen Lobby”
At the end of the twentieth century, the end of the Cold War suggested that freedom and democracy were the name of the game....
Secrecy, Democracy, Necessity
While transparency has become the constant refrain of democratic politics, executive branch officials consistently seek to insulate their activities from public scrutiny.
A recurrent rationale...
Good Work and Class Conflict
Work, in the words of Karl Marx, is a “means of life” in two senses. It is, first of all, an instrument for human...
Iris Murdoch’s Psychology of Haunting: Fantasy, Ethical Attention, and the Spectral Past
Iris Murdoch’s fiction is filled with the uncanny and the weird: drowned bodies, vampiric presences, telekinetic objects, angelic visitations, prophetic dreams, and adolescent “feyness.”...
Just Fake! Why Generative AI Art is a Myth
The year 2018 was a turning point in the debate about AI art. This was when Christie's offered the Portrait of Edmond de Belamy,...
Why Do I Advocate for the General Use of the Term “So-Called Artificial Intelligence”?
This post was originally published in Kronika: Filozofski magazin as “Zašto predlažem opću upotrebu naziva ‘takozvana umjetna inteligencija’?” It has been translated by the author and...
Harold, Maude, My Dad, and Me
My father’s birthday recently passed. To honor his memory, I decided to rewatch the 1971 cult classic Harold and Maude, which he once told...