Towards a Conception of Systemic Discrimination
What is involved in seeing discrimination as systemic and structural, and how could such an approach help us identify injustices, or aspects of injustices,...
When Jokes Won’t Do: Affective Shifts in U.S. Late-Night Comedy
The news these days seems dire, so much so that people are opting out. News avoidance is a rapidly increasing phenomenon, mainly because a...
The Paradox of China’s Crypto Regulation and Capital Going Global (Part 2)
The Global Expansion of Chinese Crypto Capital and the Systemic Collapse of Community Culture
In Part 1, I examined how China and the United States...
The Possibility of Love at First Sight
It is often asked if love at first sight is possible. Love is certainly possible. Adopting an attitude by looking at a person or...
Should Men Be Ashamed of Their AI Girlfriends?
More and more people are engaging with AI chatbots in seemingly social ways. Contemporary LLMs have become unsettlingly good at mimicking text-based chats between...
On the Insufficiency of Current Gender Equality Policies in Academia and the Necessity of...
Despite the proliferation of measures designed to promote gender equality in academia, structural inequalities persist—particularly in senior positions of responsibility, such as professorships. In 2021,...
Promoting Civic Friendship: The Transformative Power of Public Spaces
The neighborhood in Lisbon where I spend a lot of my time is densely populated. It has undergone many changes, with new cafes and...
War Ethics and Why We Shouldn’t Hope for the Best in Iran
Sometimes, the morally right thing to do is to support an unjust war. The thought behind this is simple. Some wars are morally mixed:...
What About Knowledge That No Longer Knows What It Is For?
This post was originally published in Kronika: Filozofski magazin as “Što sa znanjem koje više ne zna čemu služi?” It has been translated by the author and...
Is the Household Obsolete? Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Economy, Androcentrism, and the Socialization of...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) is well known to lovers of Gothic horror for her acclaimed story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892). This story, considered one...