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Robert F. Barsky Photograph Source: Augusto Starita / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación – CC BY-SA 2.0 Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous...
© Kevin Lamarque/Reuters TRUMP’s victory in the US Presidential election conforms to a pattern presently observable across the world, namely a collapse of the liberal...
By Kenneth Surin Frederic Jameson in conversation at Fundacíon Juan March. I have known Fred Jameson for 38 years, and was his colleague for 31 of...
Ted Christopher The unfolding problems with science’s materialist understanding of life are obviously noteworthy in and of themselves, but the associated potential support for dualistic/religious...
“I scroll, therefore I am” ~ James LadymanIn the age of virtual realities, social media and artificial intelligence, the resurgence of certain new forms...
Joachim Bromand Ludwig Wittgenstein’s remarks on contradictions and paradoxes have been met with incomprehension and have fueled the widespread and long-standing prejudice that his later...
From Postmodernism to Metamodernism Christina Aziz asks whether metanarratives still matter, and if so, how. In reaction to the religion, tradition and romanticism of earlier eras,...
By Rainer Forst On June 18, Jürgen Habermas, who has had a lasting impact on the humanities and social sciences at Goethe University, turns 95,...
by Robert Hunziker Image by Matthias Heyde. I recently attended a family affair in Upstate NY and was informed that climate change articles, like this one,...
by Monika Zgustova Still from Orson Welles’ The Trial (1962). In the late 1980s, still during the communist era, while visiting Prague, a friend gave me...