How Long Is Now?

Response

/ Juliana Spahr / Misc
I have never really understood prosody. I might as well start there.

Poems for Philosophers

/ Justin E. H. Smith / Misc
I’d rather end up at the morgue / Than in kingdom come with Swedenborg

Interview: Karen Houle

/ Jeremy Luke Hill / Interviews
I made up that term, folk ecology, riffing on folk psychology which is often denigrated in contemporary evidence-based consciousness studies and brain medicine

In defense of stupidity — on love & marriage

/ Jeremy Fernando / Misc
To wed is not only to pledge oneself, to make a vow but to also make a wager, to place a bet on a future.

Sticks, Stones and Other Things

/ Ed Simon / Misc
I can’t be the only one to think that the bad faith conservative arguments about free speech have become tired

The Fine Art of Missing the Point

Here I Stand; I Can Do No Other

/ Ed Simon / Misc
Because I’m a “Protestant,” you’re a Protestant, Barack Obama and Donald Trump are Protestants, and maybe even Pope Francis is a “Protestant.”

Merge Love With Knowledge

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Streisand is smarter than to simply give us the ending we want and crave.

Star Wars: A No Hope

Comfort the Dead

Poem: Mark Fiddes

/ Mark Fiddes / Poetry
The galactic ashtray intercepts a last fag as the philosopher quips . . .

Essays Review: Nein. A Manifesto

/ Tomoé Hill / Reviews
Reviewed: Nein. A Manifesto by Erik Jarosinski   Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom. Ambrose Bierce, The […]

Hard Bodies

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
in the 80s, america battled precarity. no one ever got hurt onscreen.

On The Invisible

/ Jessica Sequeira / Misc
La Invisibla moves once again through the city, down avenues and past buildings, silent and watchful as always.

Lost Fragments of the Philosophical Investigations

/ Joshua Landy / Misc
You have now hit me in the face. Do I feel pain? Well, I am exhibiting pain-behavior [Schmerzbenehmen].

Philosophical Promenade: On Perfection

/ Jessica Sequeira / Misc
As one grows older one tends to incline toward a third form of perfection, which consists in wanting to keep existing beauty intact.

Agamben + Tattoos

Dichtung und Wahrheit

/ Queen Mob / Misc
Philosophie dürfte man eigentlich nur dichten. Wittgenstein’s imperative translates, “very roughly” (Perloff), “Philosophy ought really to be written only as poetry."