Julien Charles The Frankfurt School predecessor and Marxist author Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the curious transformations of capitalism...
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Julien Charles “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides...
John Griffin If you ever thought of becoming a philosopher, now’s the time. In fact, now is the only...
Addison Reeves It’s just two weeks. It’s just staying three feet apart. It’s just staying six feet apart. It’s...
Hiroyuki Hamada I remember chatting with a man from Iraq in 2016. He was driving a taxi in Germany....
Lucy Davies If you’re finding yourself muttering WTF a lot more than usual; every story in the news, every...
Karen Hunt “Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.” Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children In The Silver...
Edward Curtin It’s been raining incessantly for three days. It is a cool early morning in the beginning of...
Edward Curtin The road led up the hill between houses until it came to the lake where it ran...
The global ‘lockdown’ has sought to defy our capacities for analysis, with its shock-and-awe impact on what has been...
Edward Curtin I never met the great basketball player, Bob Cousy, the man known as “the Houdini of the...
Edward Curtin We live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world...