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Review of Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History…
As Musk takes control are we heading to an ‘everything app’ or the break-up of academic Twitter?
After much speculation, Twitter has been acquired by Elon Musk. In this post, Mark Carrigan asks, if now is the time to rethink academic twitter by separating out the knowledge exchange and…
Lula beats Bolsonaro in Brazil’s runoff election
With 50.84% of the votes, the former president and leader of the Workers' Party became the president of the South American giant in an election marked by polarization, fake news, and electoral…
The great convergence – Does increasing standardisation of journal articles limit intellectual creativity?
Drawing on a recent survey of forty years of research papers in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and interviews, the authors observe an increasing homogenisation of published work. Weighing…
Bertrand Russell – The Value of Philosophy
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for…
Has Vladimir Putin been outflanked by the Russian far right?
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin has sought to minimise the reality of war, however on the far right, many feel that Russia is holding back too much and are increasingly calling…
Ales Bialiatski, Center for Civil Liberties and Memorial receive the Nobel Peace Prize – 2022
The winners represent civil society in their home countries. For many years, they have promoted the right to criticize power and to protect the fundamental rights of citizens…
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission to the Moon sets the stage for routine space exploration beyond Earth’s orbit
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is poised to take a key step toward returning humans to the Moon after a half-century hiatus. The mission, scheduled to launch on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, is…
How Can I Be a Better Person? On Virtue Ethics
By Douglas Giles In Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics. This chapter explores a variety of approaches to the question of moral virtue and what it means to be a good person. It…
Conference – György Márkus and Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe
The 3rd International Conference on Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe (ICMCTEE2022) will be held on November 18-21, 2022, in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, Thesis Eleven journal reports on…