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ROUNDUP
If you’ve ever wanted to see a dinosaur tear someone’s head off....: My issues with ‘the end of oak street’. By Julian de Medeiros in Julian de Medeiros.
Diversity and Extraction: How it Works. By Critical Perspectives in Critical Perspectives @UrbanDividend.
Notes from E. M. Forster Howards End: On the gentrification of clothing and the emotional cost of poverty... By g.m. in The Gem.
The Joule Standard: Compute and Calories Are Now Bidding For the Same Energy. By The Structural Lens in The Structural Lens.
Should we judge people of the past?: Yes, yes we should. By The Pavement Philosopher in Pavement Philosophy.
[Repost] Populism for Realists: Fast-thinking, Ignorance, and Irrationality are not Enough to Understand Contemporary Populism. By Cyril Hédoin in The Archimedean Point.
A materialist conception of history : Marx’s reading of William Thompson, Part 3. By Kevin Thomas in Marx and Friends.
Centrists seem to wait patiently for the failure of the Left: A new interview on the state of the US left with the leftwing newspaper Semanario Brecha. By Daniel Tutt in Daniel’s Journal.
Derrida’s Circular Metaphysics. By Derek Hampson in Letters from the 20th Century.
Reading Notes: Chapter 1 - Nature as Gestalt and Melody: From Ted Toadvine’s “Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature”. By Sean Legnini in Sean Is Dwelling.
On Curious Crowds, and the Darkness and Silences of Times Gone By : Zurbarán’s Exhibition at the National Gallery in London. By Carissa Véliz in Carissa Véliz’s The Antidote.
What I know about: boundaries: Dispatches from the interior world. By Helen Higgins in Helen Higgins.
Giants, Monsters, and Demons: How Old Stories Can Be Made Startlingly New: Review & Author Interview | ‘Arthur: A New Life’ by Amy Jeffs (2026). By Holly A Brown in Medieval Musings.
More thoughts on alienation, short fiction and the “intense awareness of human loneliness”, and Kit de Waal’s Supporting Cast. By Craig Snelgrove, PhD in Cooper Lee Press.
Three misconceptions about authenticity: From an existential point of view. By Ellie Anderson in Intimate Relationships.
Gathering Ourselves Back Together: On the redemptive wholeness of attention with Marcela Duque. By School of Radical Attention in The Empty Cup.
The Second Sex: Week 25. By Megan Burke in Megan Burke, PhD.
Peak AI Cheating Might be Passing, but maybe colleges should ignore it anyway: Perpetual surveillance is not the way. By Bill Vanderburgh in Philosophy for the Public Good.
China Brings Back Classic American Automobiles : The playfulness of communist temporality. By Dr. Carlos L. Garrido in Philosophy in Crisis.
Matter and Consciousness: The Seductions of Reduction and Metaphor: A short defense of the complexity of experience. By Matthew Gindin in Philosophy As Therapy.
The Grim Reaper hiding around the corner: A near-death detour to the operating table. By Jonny Thomson and Big Think in Mini Philosophy.
On the Saviors of Themselves: And the dangers of modern spirituality. By Buen Ravov in Deterritorialization.
Flying Solo: On Solitude and Loneliness. By Céline Leboeuf in Why Philosophy?.
You Are Here: Cyber defenders map intrusions in nine stages. America is at stage eight — with the intruder already deleting the logs. By Jackie Singh in Hacking, but Legal.
Viva la Résistance: Part One: I’ve always considered myself a counter-example to the claim that humans need a community to flourish. Is it possible I just never found the right community? By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in The Mattering Map.
When The World Feels Too Heavy: Italo Calvino on Lightness and the Future of Literature. By The Humanities Library in The Humanities Library.
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