Culture and Ideas
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‘Moral Ambition’ Is Too Ambitious, and Not Ambitious Enough
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Bregman’s latest book may be a call to action for some, but to what is dangerously unclear.
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Overcoming Injustice: OPR in Conversation with Sally Haslanger
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While individuals matter, ‘collective action is our best bet’ for disrupting interwoven systems of oppression.
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On Our Love of Redemption
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Perhaps we long for redemption not because we believe in it, but because we cannot bear a world without the possibility.
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Sober, and in Search of Something More: A Pessimist’s Guide to Life
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In a world of wars, famines, and crises, what does it mean to theorise and act politically? A pessimist’s viewpoint can take us forward.
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Melancholy and Hope in the Anthropocene: Keats’ Negative Capability, Barad’s Agential Realism, and the Politics of Possibilities
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Amid environmental crisis, rethinking our relationship to nature and resilience may provide a realistic basis for hope.
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AI’s Material Infrastructure: An Urban Planning Challenge for the Digital Age
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AI is only as competent or equitable as its supporting infrastructure. A reimagining of cities and space is needed.
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Review: The Making of Public Space by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre
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The book inquires into how certain events come to be politicised in contemporary liberal democracies by focusing on the individual and their experience of the public sphere.
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Home Is Where the Trauma Is: Artistic Explorations of Generational Trauma
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Questions of German identity and the memories of the Holocaust intersect in Spiegelman’s Maus.
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Reappraising a controversial figure: Ross Carroll’s Edmund Burke
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The book explores the complexities of a figure who was very much a man of his time, whilst also being out of fit with it in a number of ways.
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Towards a Narrative of the Global Environment
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Building a more sustainable society depends on upending how we talk about nature.