Philosophy & Theory Roundup - October 24, 2025

ROUNDUP

1. Hell is Other People (But Mostly Exes) (62 likes): On Sartre, shame, and the people who still know your middle name. By in Helen Higgins.

2. Argentina’s Bailout and the New Digital Extractivism (9 likes): The fusion of austerity and AI “innovation” turns crisis management into a frontier for U.S. power and corporate profit. By in Techno-Statecraft.

3. “The people of Gaza did not give up, they did not surrender.” - Haidar Eid (20 likes): A conversation Haidar Eid, author of “Decolonizing the Palestinian Mind” and “Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza.”. By in Radical Books Collective.

4. Jesus and the Doomsday Clock, part 1: The Cross and the Sword (14 likes): How Apocalyptic Christianity became America’s new theology of power. By @heyslick in Hey Slick.

5. The Man of the Liberal Consensus (9 likes): Some Thoughts About a Recent Biography of Walter Lippmann. By in The Archimedean Point.

6. No more jobs, bitch! (54 likes): Ad Astra or no? By in Beneath the Pavement.

7. The Hidden Theurgy of Information Tech (4 likes): Semiconductors, Binary Code, and the Arcane Art of Digital Modernity. By in The Cyber Hermetica.

8. In the shadow of an empire (4 likes): power and the American prison system. By in Truth is a Woman.

9. Eight Notes on the Illiterate Universe (37 likes): Fragments from the circus of being. By in The Horn Gate.

10. Oscar Wilde on Writing (100 likes): “We Irish are too poetic to be poets.”. By in Julian de Medeiros.

11. A Story in Two Pictures (127 likes): A self-indulgent personal post. By in Commonplace Philosophy.

12. The relational conception of the self: historical threads, part 2 (9 likes): Kropotkin looks at evolution and sees mutual aid as much as competition. By in Humaning is Hard, but Philosophy Can Help.

13. Let the Blackness Roll On: A Travel Diary (5 likes). By in The Way Out Is Through.

14. When Anti-Fascism Becomes Liberal Discipline (23 likes): The Quixote Syndrome and the danger of a left that polices interior life instead of organizing the exploited. By in Daniel’s Journal.

15. The Purpose Of The System (27 likes): The Purpose of a System is What It Does (Not What It Claims to Do). By in Free Society.

16. The New Physics (10 likes): Fritjof Capra, “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics

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