The Muppets Explain Phenomenology
This video, uploaded in 2012 to YouTube, features the iconic Muppets song “Mahna Mahna,” subtitled to explain phenomenology.
Submit Your Papers! Fungiculture
Fungiculture is now accepting submissions for their second issue, entitled “Rhythms.” The deadline to submit is June 14, 2015.
8 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in May
Foucault, Laruelle and more.
Book Giveaway: The Manhattan Project
In The Manhattan Project, Kishik envisions a world where Walter Benjamin had faked his own death and assumed a new identity in New York City. What would have continued of Benjamin’s academic work?
“You Cannot Escape Your Country,” James Baldwin, a 1984 Interview
Can people of color, or more specifically, people in urban African-American communities, salvage anything from America? Do we now live in two Americas, in diametric opposition, too far away to bridge the enormous economic and political divide, or maybe have we always?
When confronted with images of rioting in Baltimore, and the subsequent militarized police to … Continue Reading ››
Adopt a Homeless: HandUp and Bio-Morality
Everyday Analysis uses philosopher Alenka Zupančič’s idea of ‘bio-morality’ to explore the implications of San Francisco’s new ‘Adopt a Homeless’ program.
Sam Harris Awkwardly Debates with Noam Chomsky
Sam Harris, the New Atheist philosopher who, with his colleagues, managed to artfully package trendy atheism with old-school Islamophobic bigotry is now trying to publicly debate anarchist intellectual Noam Chomsky.
The topic at hand: is the United States as evil as Islamic terrorism? Harris, for his part, has previously criticized Chomsky's argument that the United States … Continue Reading ››
12 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in April
Fanon, Wark, Ross, Zizek and more.
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Dungeons & Dragons & Philosophy: Part 5 [Comic]
Simone de Beauvoir, John Stuart Mill, Ayn Rand, Karl Marx and Marx Stirner battle it out.