Garden as a Performance
Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, the owner of the Muskau Park (now in Germany and Poland), an aristocratic gardener and author of Hints on Landscape...
Economic Democracy as the Redemption of Political Democracy
Economic democracy is most often defended by pointing to the so-called “firm-state analogy.” Hannes Kuch’s recent plea for economic democracy in an earlier post...
The Perceptual World of Danger
Ludwig Wittgenstein claimed, “The world of a happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.” This is definitely true at least...
How to Handle the Death of the Essay
During our section on Existentialism and the meaning of life in the Introduction to Philosophy course that I just finished TA-ing this Fall, we...
Loving Attention and Aesthetic Appreciation
Might my love of Picasso make me a better partner? Can appreciating artworks improve my capacity for loving attention in my relationships? Philosophers of...
Of AI, Unreality and Our Planetary Reality
A few weeks ago, when it was still summer, my partner’s mother was worrying over the arrangements for her 70th birthday party, due to...
Why We Should Doubt that Academic Philosophy Benefits the Broader Public
This post was originally published on Kronika: filozofski magazin and has been republished with the permission of Kronika and the author.
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Shaping Each Other’s Vision: Collective Intentionality and the Zohran Mamdani Campaign
This year began with Zohran Mamdani taking office as the Mayor of New York City, after having run what has been widely lauded as...
Rot, Rinse, Repeat
Brain Rot, Feedback Loops, and the Shared Costs of Social Media Optimization
In last month’s post, I introduced the idea of linguistic feedback loops in...
I, Large Language Model: Could Large Language Models Really Be Conscious?
The city I live in has many green-billed toucans. Besides their stunning looks, toucans also produce a conspicuous cry. One day, after hearing one...