The Philosophical Salon
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A unique platform, curated by Michael Marder, where thinkers discuss today’s crucial issues & philosophy's perennial questions.
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"The In/Hospitality of the Earth": www.koozarch.com/essays/heavy...
Heavy Talk: The In/Hospitality of the Earth<!-- --> – KoozArch
In this address philosopher and academic Michael Marder expands on what he refers to as the ‘geodump’ of the earth, divided into surface and depth. As the relative hospitality of the earth’s surfaces ...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"The In/Hospitality of the Earth": www.koozarch.com/essays/heavy...
How to think of climate change denialism? thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-plate-sp...
The Plate-Spinning Trip of Climate Agnotology - The Philosophical Salon
We should stop calling them climate deniers. Because they’re not denying it; if they denied anthropogenic climate change, they wouldn’t be acting so feverishly to shut-up, actively reject, and blow .....
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November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
How to think of climate change denialism? thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-plate-sp...
Fabio Vighi on 'successful paranoia': thephilosophicalsalon.com/inside-the-b...
Inside the Bubble of “Successful Paranoia”: Lacanian Reflections on Techno-Capitalist Delusion - The Philosophical Salon
‘A successful paranoia might just as well seem to constitute the closure of science’.[i] In psychoanalytic terms, denial negates reality, whereas delusion replaces it. In denial, the subject refuses t...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Fabio Vighi on 'successful paranoia': thephilosophicalsalon.com/inside-the-b...
Aquarium fragments: michaelmarder.substack.com/p/aquarium-f...
Aquarium Fragments
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November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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⭕💬 #Opinión | La retórica moral de la solidaridad entre socios de la OTAN para aumentar el gasto en defensa oculta una transferencia masiva de riqueza pública de los contribuyentes europeos a corporaciones de Estados Unidos
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Un Plan Marshall al revés: así financia Europa las empresas de armamento estadounidenses | Opinión
La retórica moral de la solidaridad entre socios de la OTAN para aumentar el gasto en defensa oculta una transferencia masiva de riqueza pública de los contribuyentes europeos a corporaciones de Estados Unidos
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November 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
⭕💬 #Opinión | La retórica moral de la solidaridad entre socios de la OTAN para aumentar el gasto en defensa oculta una transferencia masiva de riqueza pública de los contribuyentes europeos a corporaciones de Estados Unidos
🖋️ Michael Marder dozz.es/ltu_38
🖋️ Michael Marder dozz.es/ltu_38
On the dialectics of energy: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
On the dialectics of energy: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...
Drifting with the world--more on passengerhood
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Drifting with the World: Additional Reflections on Passengerhood
I am jotting these lines down while waiting for an early morning flight at the tiny Santander airport, which was still closed less than two hours before scheduled takeoff.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Drifting with the world--more on passengerhood
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Reflections on technofeudalism: thephilosophicalsalon.com/technofeudal...
Technofeudalism and the Psychological Foreclosure of the Future - The Philosophical Salon
In recent years, there has been much talk about the death of capitalism—whether that death is imminent, in process, or something that has already happened. In the latter category, we ... Read More
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October 21, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Reflections on technofeudalism: thephilosophicalsalon.com/technofeudal...
Mind, brain, attention, becoming... no longer: thephilosophicalsalon.com/no-longer-to...
No Longer to Become - The Philosophical Salon
The mind is not located, but enacted. Let me rephrase: you say hello to your neighbour, not out of kindness, but because he still hasn’t returned the carton of eggs ... Read More
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October 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Mind, brain, attention, becoming... no longer: thephilosophicalsalon.com/no-longer-to...
Essentially Superficial: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Essentially Superficial
“Essentially superficial.” Could you imagine these two words as a signature (yours, mine, or a plant’s—it hardly matters), by analogy with “Sincerely yours”?
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October 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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How to unlearn Zionism: thephilosophicalsalon.com/unlearning-z...
Unlearning Zionism - The Philosophical Salon
Edward Said ends his introduction to Orientalism with a plea for “unlearning”: “If [Orientalism] stimulates a new kind of dealing with the Orient, indeed if it eliminates the ‘Orient’ and ... Read Mor...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
How to unlearn Zionism: thephilosophicalsalon.com/unlearning-z...
An obituary for fossil fuels: michaelmarder.substack.com/p/an-obituar...
An Obituary for Fossil Fuels
This time around the deceased will not be missed.
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October 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
An obituary for fossil fuels: michaelmarder.substack.com/p/an-obituar...
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Now available! METAMORPHOSES REIMAGINED is a work of breathtaking philosophical, literary, and linguistic experimentation, proposing creative ways to write and think, to be and become. buff.ly/9aYTHXV
September 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Now available! METAMORPHOSES REIMAGINED is a work of breathtaking philosophical, literary, and linguistic experimentation, proposing creative ways to write and think, to be and become. buff.ly/9aYTHXV
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I'm looking forward to this talk on white collar crime, jouissance, and cinema by the brilliant scholar Fabio Vighi on Oct. 15 at Stanford. All welcome. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I'm looking forward to this talk on white collar crime, jouissance, and cinema by the brilliant scholar Fabio Vighi on Oct. 15 at Stanford. All welcome. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
"Rearm or Reworld?" an op-ed previously published in Spanish and Portuguese now accessible in English: michaelmarder.substack.com/p/rearm-or-r...
Rearm or Reworld?
Another fork in the road of destroying a livable planet
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September 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"Rearm or Reworld?" an op-ed previously published in Spanish and Portuguese now accessible in English: michaelmarder.substack.com/p/rearm-or-r...
A fresh look at the future of African philosophy: thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-unfinish...
The Unfinished Revolution in African Philosophy: We Have Defended Enough — Can We Now Build? - The Philosophical Salon
One of the central dilemmas that has long haunted modern African philosophy is its derivative posture, its tendency to emerge in response to the overwhelming intellectual dominance of Western philosop...
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September 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A fresh look at the future of African philosophy: thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-unfinish...
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Out now ➡️ Eco-Freud From A to Z by Michael Marder
An unprecedented conceptual portrait of Freud as an ecological thinker, this book analyzes current approaches to environmental crisis through psychoanalysis.
Order now: https://bit.ly/4nIzoSC
Preview: https://bit.ly/47MrCCp
An unprecedented conceptual portrait of Freud as an ecological thinker, this book analyzes current approaches to environmental crisis through psychoanalysis.
Order now: https://bit.ly/4nIzoSC
Preview: https://bit.ly/47MrCCp
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Out now ➡️ Eco-Freud From A to Z by Michael Marder
An unprecedented conceptual portrait of Freud as an ecological thinker, this book analyzes current approaches to environmental crisis through psychoanalysis.
Order now: https://bit.ly/4nIzoSC
Preview: https://bit.ly/47MrCCp
An unprecedented conceptual portrait of Freud as an ecological thinker, this book analyzes current approaches to environmental crisis through psychoanalysis.
Order now: https://bit.ly/4nIzoSC
Preview: https://bit.ly/47MrCCp
"What are humans? And who are plants?" michaelmarder.substack.com/p/what-are-h...
What Are Humans? And Who Are Plants?
Human being today is more of a mystery than ever before.
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September 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"What are humans? And who are plants?" michaelmarder.substack.com/p/what-are-h...
Already out from @columbiaup.bsky.social: cup.columbia.edu/book/metamor...
Metamorphoses Reimagined | Columbia University Press
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, existence is perpetual transformation. Humans and gods become plants and animals, stones and stars—or something in between. No r... | CUP
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September 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Just published by @BloomsburyAcad: Eco-Freud From A to Z - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ecofreud-...
Eco-Freud From A to Z
An unprecedented conceptual portrait of Freud as an ecological thinker, this book analyzes our current approaches to ecology and the environmental crisis throug…
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September 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Just published by @BloomsburyAcad: Eco-Freud From A to Z - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ecofreud-...
Is non-sacrificial law possible? thephilosophicalsalon.com/beyond-the-s...
Beyond the Scapegoat: Girard, Kelsen, and the Possibility of a Non-Sacrificial Law - The Philosophical Salon
The Need for a New Legal Imagination The law, as the quintessential institution of order, is increasingly under pressure to rethink its foundations. Beneath the surface of codified statutes and ... Re...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Gorgeous, important book (and open access) that my friend and colleague @jrdwrrn.bsky.social tipped me on to: Michael Marder, Tchernobyl Herbarium (FR/EN - @openhumanities.bsky.social, 2016; #skystorians). anaistondeur.com/chernobyl-he...
CHERNOBYL HERBARIUM — ANAIS TONDEUR
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August 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Gorgeous, important book (and open access) that my friend and colleague @jrdwrrn.bsky.social tipped me on to: Michael Marder, Tchernobyl Herbarium (FR/EN - @openhumanities.bsky.social, 2016; #skystorians). anaistondeur.com/chernobyl-he...