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We are more than ever before living in the reality of parasocial interactions and relationships, and a politics based on influencing others through a series of short-form attention-grabbing bombardments that create an impression rather than convince. That’s the name of today’s game, whether it comes to selling someone on the idea of buying a particular…
The Ethics of Limit
by Tommaso Biagi Independent scholar of moral and political philosophy “I do not rule you, and you do not rule me.” ⸻ The Quiet Contradiction of Every Civilization Every civilization—flawless, perfect in composition and intention—exists atop a quiet contradiction: We love freedom. We suffer domination. We justify it as “necessary authority,” “the public order,” “the…
Book Review: Red Moon
I had Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Moon on my Goodreads to-read list for a long time, mainly because I’m a fan of his other work and the title sounded evocative. But I put off reading it time and again because the Goodreads summary didn’t give much indication of how much systemic transition figured in the…
Landback: Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate
. . . With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper – one which will be restated throughout – is the problematic nature of the nation-state, in the sense of a state or polity built around an official ethnicity. The…
