Dialektika, Author at Dialektika

AI and the future of work

although large language models certainly portend disruption for creative and knowledge workers, there are still many valuable opportunities in the offing for those willing to adapt to and integrate these powerful new…

‘The Whale’ is a horror film that taps into our fear of fatness

But if empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another, why was I left with the idea of my own body as an irredeemable monstrosity?…

Heart Valley: Life Lessons from a Shepherd (2022)

The filmmaker Christian Cargill presents a loving portrait of the Welsh shepherd Wilf Davies, who works his farm alone, eats the same meal every day, and has never left his valley…

Peru protests: What to know about Indigenous-led movement shaking the crisis-hit country

What you have now is an unpopular ex-president in jail and an unpopular president with contested claims to legitimacy in power. It is very different context…

Twitter in 2022: 5 essential reads about the consequences of Elon Musk’s takeover of the microblogging platform

You would be forgiven for growing numb to the almost daily assault of headlines proclaiming the latest stunning development involving Elon Musk’s tenure as owner and manager of Twitter…

Dialektika is included in Sherpa Romeo

It is with great pleasure that we inform our community that the academic journal of our platform Dialektika, has been included in Sherpa Romeo. With its inclusion, Dialektika: Journal of Philosophy and Social…

NIF’s target chamber, where a powerful laser is used to start nuclear fusion reactions. Photo by Jason Laurea/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), CC BY-NC-SA

Nuclear fusion may still be decades away, but the latest breakthrough could speed up its development

Nuclear fusion holds huge promise as a source of clean, abundant energy that could power the world…

Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro. Netflix, 2022

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio review

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is a culmination of the director’s artistic preoccupation with the abandoned and unwanted child. In del Toro’s oeuvre, these children become symbolic of the future of a world…

Hegel is considered the hardest philosopher, but his views aren’t actually that outlandish

The final irony here is that Hegel’s views are actually much less bizarre and outlandish than many other philosophers with less challenging reputations, such as Leibniz with his monads, Kant with his…

The myth of Aufheben

the Hegelian Aufhebung works not to a logic of mastery, not to a logic that overcomes what it negates, but to a logic of life and death that lives and dies, negates and preserves,…