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…
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,…
Lost at sea
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…