The 2020s and Beyond
(This is part 7 in the No Time for Utopia series.) The main guiding principle of this series is a rejection of โideal theoryโ, that is, of idealizations and unwarranted…
(This is part 7 in the No Time for Utopia series.) The main guiding principle of this series is a rejection of โideal theoryโ, that is, of idealizations and unwarranted…
(This is part 6 in the No Time for Utopia series.) In The Ethics of Climate Insurgency I argued that an insurgency aimed at overthrowing the enemies of our children…
(This is part 5 in the No Time for Utopia series.) Letโs say that you want to avoid the Mad-Maxian hell of societal collapse that climate change is making increasing…
In 1911 the now almost forgotten German philosopher Hans Vaihinger published Die Philosophie des Als Ob (The Philosophy of โAs ifโ) in which he argued for something approaching global fictionalism.…
(This is part 5 in the โCrisis and Inertiaโ series.) In the first episode in this series I argued that societies and other social โobjectsโ (cultures, beliefs, institutions, ideas, ideologies,…
Surprisingly many people seem to think that anti-fascists are just as bad as the fascists they oppose. (According to one rather unreliable source even Chomsky recently made critical comments about…