Life typically becomes an object of reflection when it is seen to be under threat. In particular, humans have a tendency to engage in thinking ...
Continue Reading βTracing the the potential of sound, infrasound, and ultrasound to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead. For ...
Continue Reading βAthanasius Kircher (1602β80) stands out as one of the last all-encompassing minds. For this true Renaissance man, the whole world was a glorious appearance of ...
Continue Reading βOn the Postcolony is a collection of critical essays by Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist Achille Mbembe. The book is Mbembe’s most well-known work and ...
Continue Reading βIn Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ...
Continue Reading βCan Nietzsche be considered a thinker of media and mediation, as the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler declared in his influential book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter? ...
Continue Reading ββTeems with sharp observation, profound moral insight, high satiric wit, and all manner of aesthetic delight.β βThe New York Times Book Review A Penguin Classic ...
Continue Reading βJacob Boehme, the seventeenth-century German speculative mystic, influenced the philosophers Hegel and Schelling and both English and German Romantics alike with his visionary thought. Gnostic ...
Continue Reading βNomadic Subjects argues for a new kind of philosophical thinking, one that would include the insights of feminism and abandon the hegemonic mode that is ...
Continue Reading βThis book is a brilliant and timely analysis of the complex issues raised by the relation between women and philosophy. It offers a critical account ...
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