Our new posting of “Caliban’s Readings” is now available. Please join Ahmed AboHamad in exploring the cultivation of fear under oppression: "Whenever a society normalizes conditions of tyranny, even the subordinated reproduce domination, often reenacting it downward."

Living in exile feels like living someone else’s life. Sure, that other person might be living a good life, but they don’t feel like you. They don’t carry the same subjectivity and sensibilities that you once had. Exile alienates you from your past selves.

When I'm dreading academia, I daydream about being a farmer and/or a cook. If I can’t live the life of the mind in the academy, I’ll happily live it on a farm or in a kitchen.

Hi all! I’m a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate studying how we should think about virtue and flourishing under structural injustice. I also look at how philosophies like Stoicism and Sufism can be misused for political purposes. I’ve side interests in Epistemology, Phil of Science, and Environmental Ethics.

Anyone else here, like me, wasn’t on Twitter? And now I’m just stumbling through this trying to figure out what’s going on and how this thing works… help?