Speculation for Worlds to Come
In a time of deep planetary weirding and widespread cultural and personal disorientation speculative thought is no longer just a literary genre or theoretical exercise, but a vital tool for […]
Monthly Archives: May 2025
A Foray into the Ecology of Possible Worlds
By Alfredo Lozano 1. An Ecology of Possible Worlds I am often amazed to have access to satellite images with thundering evidence of our species’ capabilities to transform the environment. […]
The Adventure of Nihilism: Ray Brassier, ‘Nihil Unbound’
Review of Ray Brassier’s Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction, for Parallax 14:4 (2008), by Maya B. Kronic Perhaps familiarity has rendered ‘nihilism’ a toothless philosopheme, but philosophers themselves have lent a hand in its […]
Counter-Apocalyptica
The world, we are told, is ending. Climate collapse, mass extinction, political disintegration—the Anthropocene is branded as a singular catastrophe, the final act of civilization. But what if the end […]
The Order of Time
A lecture by renowned physicist and cosmologist Carlo Rovelli: What do past, present and future mean to a philosopher of time? In this eloquent lecture, the Italian theoretical physicist and […]
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