Category: Philosophy

August 31, 2012

Judith Butler: Your Behavior Creates Your Gender

Judith Butler explains how your behavior creates your gender.

August 30, 2012

Judith Butler on deriving principles from a Jewish cultural tradition

Judith Butler explains “what it means to derive a set of principles from a cultural tradition” and then applies this explanation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

August 29, 2012

Judith Butler on being Jewish and criticizing Israel

Judith Butler rebuts criticisms of her position on Israeli politics, Hamas and Hezbollah, and BDS.

August 23, 2012

Peter Sloterdijk on Contemporary Theory and Scholarship

“We have art so as not to be ruined by scholarship making our relation to the world and ourselves artificial.”—Peter Sloterdijk In the chapter “Theory and Suspended Animation and Its Metamorphoses,” from The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as Practice, Peter...

August 23, 2012

Pussy Riot and Rosi Braidotti

“We realized that this country needs a militant, punk-feminist, street band that will rip through Moscow’s streets and squares, mobilize public energy against the evil crooks of the Putinist junta and enrich the Russian cultural and political opposition.”—Serafima, Pussy Riot...

August 22, 2012

Peter Sloterdijk on Practice

“All the signs now indicate that the ancient great practicing powers in East Asia, that is, China and India (following the Japanese model), have completed the transformation to globally oriented forms of training. They have launched a new, aggressive achievement...

August 21, 2012

Peter Sloterdijk on the Rising Tensions between Germany and France

In a recent and much-discussed article in Der Spiegel, Romain Leick discusses the growing tensions between France and Germany. Needless to say, the French-German relationship is one whose history is fraught with violence and war. However, in recent years France...

July 10, 2012

Featured Cover of the Week: Hospitality of the Matrix, by Irina Aristarkhova

Our featured cover for this week is Irina Aristarkhova’s Hospitality of the Matrix.

June 26, 2012

Michael Marder: Do plants have their own form of consciousness?

Michael Marder addresses the controversy stirred up by his recent NYTimes articles and addresses how new advances in botany should impact our ethical thinking.

June 14, 2012

Santiago Zabala remembers Richard Rorty

Santiago Zabala looks back at the intellectual legacy of Richard Rorty, one of the most important philosophical figures of the last half century.

June 11, 2012

Santiago Zabala — Nietzsche on WikiLeaks

Santiago Zabala looks at Wikileaks through the thought of Nietzsche.

June 7, 2012

Michael Marder and Gary Francione Debate Plant Ethics, Part Three

Michael Marder and Gary Francione finish their debate on the impact of “plant thinking” on dietary ethics.