Contrary to what most people believe, the world is approaching the dystopian totalitarian society portrayed in George Orwell’s 1984, although ours does not, at first…
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Few people are in the position, or have the means, to be able to know just how detrimental the incremental control of our social environment…
I have written on nihilism here before, and am returning to it now in light of a striking analysis of its causes by Bernard Stiegler…
Most people reading this are probably wondering what a “politics of spirit” could possibly mean. After all, it seems like an oxymoron to juxtapose “politics”…
We live in the age of the unquestioned assumption of human rights — that is, the assumption that all human beings are entitled to certain…
I am willing to bet that the vast majority of politicians in the world today do not give much thought to the relationship between governance…
Kazuo Ishiguro is famed chiefly as winner of the Booker Prize for his novel, The Remains of the Day, the virtues of which are beyond…
One of the most perspicacious social theorists of our time, Zygmunt Bauman, has given us a compelling, if not wholly original sketch of the contemporary…