Review – The Young Pope
The philosopher Jacques Derrida once said ‘Inheritance is an act’. At least, I’ve been told he did. I’ve never read it myself, and as much […]
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Žižek and the Myth of the Public Intellectual
Forgot to post this at the time. Oh well. I was dismayed at Žižek’s endorsement of Trump, and in the name of justice I took […]
Belated Review: Klingons Into Darkness
I kind of enjoyed Star Trek: Into Darkness at the time, but the Klingons always bugged me in it. Now, I’m not going to go onto […]
Death of the Author: David Bowie’s Blackstar
This post inaugurates a mini-series of Belated Drafts. Basically, I’m working hard on the Ph.D. at the moment, so have less time to work on […]
Whose Side is Technology On?
This is a post I forgot to publish a few months ago. Please pretend that I could be bothered to update references to the 2015 […]
What is Philosophy? Socrates and Perplexity
Some thoughts after a particularly good couple of seminars today. It is easy to understate how annoying Socrates was. His status as one of the […]
Belated Review – Avatar (2009)
Avatar is a film that argues that human beings are mortally evil and inescapably isolated. It claims that the only moral solution to which is […]
Belated Review – The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Taking a much needed break from the Labour Leadership election, I want to speak about a film I recently rewatched for the first time in […]
Book Review – The Media Against Democracy
Thomas Field’s recently published The Media Against Democracy brings together philosophical themes from 21st and late 20th Century European philosophy and shows their political application […]
Robocop 2014: Freedom vs Technology
The Robocop reboot from earlier this year gave me faith that sci-fi isn’t dead. I expected a moody Nolan-esque remake, similar to the 2012 Dredd, that would […]
Film Review – Hannah Arendt – Philosophy and Harm
This review comes quite late, given that the film was released in 2012, but, despite the fact that Arendt is one of my favourite philosophers and […]
Freedom out of Control: Heidegger on Freedom and the Will
The following is a paper I gave at an internal university conference a few weeks ago. Speaking broadly, it is an attempt to convey my […]