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Authenticity, American Style

The meaning of authenticity in the era of “reality show” politics

March 23, 2018 • by Jeremy Safran

In her 2012 book The Politics of Authenticity in American Presidential Campaigns, Erica Seifert documents the growing importance over a 25-year period of the voters’ perception of candidates’ authenticity in determining the outcome of presidential elections. In recent years Al Gore, John Kerry and Mitt Romney’s bids for the presidency were all ...

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Fake Art and Inauthenticity in Philosophy

A review of Santiago Zabala’s ‘Why Only Art Can Save Us’

March 20, 2018 • by Paul A. Kottman

It was reported in the Washington Post that the Trump White House had asked to borrow Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 painting Landscape with Snow from the Guggenheim Museum in New York in order to display it in the President’s private quarters. [1] The request for the Van Gogh was refused. In its place, the Guggenheim offered ...

Fake Art and Inauthenticity in Philosophy

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Analytic or Continental?

The psychology of becoming a philosopher in the 21st century

March 15, 2018 • by Reinier Hoon

Divorce need not be a tragedy. Things do turn messy, however, when parents force their kids to take sides: for one and against the other. We philosophers who are coming of age in the 21st century find ourselves, unfortunately, subject to such an unhappy circumstance. To become a philosopher today implies ...

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Biofinance

Biological foundations of capital imaginaries

March 13, 2018 • by Marc Aziz Michael

Capitalism has been the subject of too many conflicting definitions for any of the claims that follow to have any purchase on truth -- understood as an adequation to the real. Beneath the numerous disagreements, however, a common substratum can be gleaned between the liberal Smithian, and the classical Marxist ...

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How Castoriadis read Weber

Meaning, values, and imaginary institution

March 6, 2018 • by Yannis Ktenas

I. The interest Cornelius Castoriadis had in Max Weber’s work, although quite apparent and confessed by the philosopher himself, has not drawn sufficient attention by scholars and commentators. [1] It is no coincidence that the first and the last texts Castoriadis published while living both deal with Weber. The first of these was ...

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For a Terrestrial Politics

An interview with Bruno Latour

March 1, 2018 • by Bruno Latour and Camille Riquier

This interview was originally published in Eurozine, February 6 2018. Between post-human globalization and nationalist withdrawal, the ecological question pushes us towards the earthly ground, argues Bruno Latour. Traditionally rejected by the Left as reactionary, ‘the question of belonging to a particular soil’ has suddenly become urgent. Camille Riquier: In 2015, you published Face ...

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What Makes Something New Today?

On the compulsion to innovate

February 20, 2018 • by Santiago Zabala

Given our prejudice towards innovation, everything labeled as “new” captures our interest with the promise of genuine improvement. But are new politicians, technological discoveries, and works of art necessarily better than previous ones? As we enter 2018 we recall last year’s breakthroughs as improvements in politics, technology, and art. It is ...

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Self-Limitation and Democracy

On the Ability of Society to Self-Regulate

February 7, 2018 • by Yavor Tarinski

[F]or the impulse of mere appetite is slavery, while obedience to a self-prescribed law is liberty. Jean-Jacques Rousseau[1] The philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis has often been credited with saying that "democracy is the regime of self-limitation." [2] But since for him the only true democratic form is direct democracy, this claim might seem a bit ...

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Social Organicism in the Service of Power

The sinister side of unity discourse

January 31, 2018 • by Assad Asil Companioni and Kurtis Brade

Socialists, social democrats, Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders, and even liberals like Barack Obama, have been condemned for promoting “class warfare.” However, condemning those who combat oppression and injustice for “dividing society” is to participate in the defense of the social order as it currently exists. Such condemnations of attempts at ...

Social Organicism in the Service of Power

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Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto

An Excerpt

January 30, 2018 • by Bryan W. Van Norden

The following article is an edited excerpt from Chapter 1 of ‘ Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto’(2017), by Bryan W Van Norden, with a foreword by Jay L Garfield, published by Columbia University Press. The canon of mainstream philosophy in the Anglo-European world is narrow-minded, unimaginative, and even xenophobic. I know ...

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the “Possibility of Joy”

An interview

January 30, 2018 • by Clinamen

The following is a transcription of a broadcast aired on the radio program Clinamen, which is co-conducted by Diego Sztulwark, Diego Skliar, and Natalia Genero. It was translated from the Spanish by Ana Vivaldi and Daniel Harper in 2017. Bifo casts his gaze across multiple planes: the personal and the political, the technical ...

Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the “Possibility of Joy”

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Bodies, Gender and Domination

OOPS course

January 30, 2018 • by Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster

Course Description: Why do people fight for their own servitude as if it were their own deliverance? This is a question that has been at the heart of philosophy for a long time under the headings of voluntary servitude, ideology, and more recently domination. The aim of this seminar is to ...