Forget the big hits like Stranger Things, Squid Game or Bridgerton. You know, these shows that break records, generate trends on Tik Tok, and are responsible each year for a tons of new Halloween costumes. Severance, directed by Ben Stiller and released on Apple TV+, is none of that, yet it is a hit, praised …
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Cally Nurse is an MFA student in Dundee. Encounters with the Velvet Swimming Crab: What do our feelings of disgust towardsanimals reveal about our attitude to the living world? Touch it, he says. There, in his blue,rubber-gloved hand, is a crab. Its antennae flick tosniff while its rolling red eyes scope its surroundings. Its pinkie-like …
Dr Luca Siliquini-Cinelli (Law, University of Dundee) specialises in comparative contract law, comparative legal traditions, and continental philosophy and political theory. He is currently working with Dr. Thom Giddens (Law) and Dr Dominic Smith (Philosophy) towards realisation of the ‘Frankenlaw’ Critical Legal Conference at Dundee, September 2021 (https://clc2021.com/) Seeking Truth Over the past few months, several compelling posts on …
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by Dominic Smith Two transitional moments in Spielberg’s Jaws demand special attention. The first is when Richard Dreyfuss turns up as oceanographer Matt Hooper. In a film full of strong performances, he steals the show (opinion will be split on whether Robert Shaw does this better). The second is when we properly get to see …
by Ashley Woodward Popular culture has already had more than its fair share of misrepresentations of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and his ideas, from the comic book superhero Superman to the‘Nietzscheans’ – a malevolent alien race who care only about power – in Andromeda,another sci-fi series by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. …
by Dominic Smith I wasn’t in the habit of noticing it at all: a small rectangular fridge magnet bearing a likeness of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, gifted to me by an eccentric member of the Hume Society many years ago…. It is frankly hideous: Hume’s likeness comes from a bad waxwork, and …
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] by Dominic Smith Originally published on the University of Dundee blog, Nov 15. Today is UNESCO ‘World Philosophy Day.’ But does philosophy deserve this celebration? According to a famous assessment from Stephen Hawking, the answer is emphatically ‘no’: ‘How can we understand the world in which we …
by Dr Dominic Smith Originally published in The Conversation magazine (March 2, 2017) A colleague recently asked me how I would define “Trumpism”. Where do you start? Is it a new political ideology, or a revival of dangerous old populisms? A flash in the pan, or a draining of the swamp? Are we seeing the …
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The editors of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy are pleased to announce the publication of Issue 25. FEATURES ‘(Neuro)plasticity, Epigenesis and the Void’ by Ian James ‘From “L’inexistance divine”‘ by Quentin Meillassoux (transl. Nathan Brown) ‘What is a Diagram (for a Sign)?’ by James Williams ESSAYS ‘Polemic as Logic in the Work of Alain Badiou’ by Justin Clemens and …