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How to Headhunt for “Singapore Inc”

...has strategically hosted multinational corporations from all over the world, while the population is treated as “a source of ‘human capital.’” This philosophy regulates everything from public education offerings to...
Simone Weil at the Lycée Henri-IV, 1926

Simone Weil: Voluntary Worker

...philosophy, not just to get to the core of it but to evade the accusation of hypocrisy. Simone Weil (1909–1943) was such a philosopher. Rebellious and without fear or concern...
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Disease Forecasts, AI Goes Nuclear, and Daniel Dennett

...Philosophy (Aeon) by Tim Bayne When the hugely influential philosopher Daniel C. Dennett died this year, he left behind a public legacy of bringing neuroscience into the philosophy of consciousness....
Three angels hosted by Abraham, Ludovico Carracci, c. 1610-1612

Xenophilia: Golden Rule of the Stranger

Unfortunately, we all know what “xenophobia” means. Derived from the ancient Greek words for “stranger” and “fear,” it’s defined as the fear or hate of the foreign or alien person...
Poster for the film The Deadly Mantis, 1957

The War on Bugs

...and aggression. “Magnification of power or size—e.g., giant insects (and other exaggerated animalcules)—is another mode of symbol formation,” writes professor of philosophy Noël Carroll. “Often magnification takes a particular phobia...
Fredric Jameson, 2008

Verbatim: Fredric Jameson

Literary critic, critical theorist, philosopher, Marxist: Fredric Jameson died last month at the age of ninety. In his long career, he wrote more than thirty books and many more articles...
Orpheus by George de Forest Brush, 1890

Francis Bacon’s Fables of Life Extension

...mournful song that harmonizes nature. For Bacon, the songs represent, respectively, science and political philosophy. The lessons here are that scientific research could succeed in extending life if its practitioners...
Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett, 2009

New Atheism and the Trouble with Literalism

English literature scholar David Hawkes describes the New Atheism movement of the early 2000s as “arguably the first genuinely popular movement in the world of ideas for several decades.” Hawkes...

In the Stereoscope, Another World

...and city streets. For the inquiring, they were a means to talk about science, vision, veracity, and even philosophy. According to science historian Robert J. Silverman, stereography was immediately recognized...
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The Ins and Outs of Architecture

...Why Architects Need Philosophy to Guide the AI Design Revolution Nayef Al-Rodhan July 18, 2024 Architecture in the age of AI—argues professor Nayef Al-Rodhan—should embed philosophical inquiry in its transdisciplinary...