Philosophy & Theory Roundup - October 17, 2025

ROUNDUP

1. Attention is Love (226 likes): Who has the deepest thought, loves what is most alive. By in Commonplace Philosophy.

2. Fighting Fascism The Hard Way (42 likes): Defeating fascism when peaceful means have been exhausted. By in Free Society.

3. (Neo)Classical Liberalism and Polycentricity (11 likes): Liberal Thought in the 21st Century. By in The Archimedean Point.

4. 143. Degrowth (4 likes). By in Overthink Podcast.

5. Aristotle was wrong about elephants and about us (70 likes): Breaking down the notion of human exceptionalism. By and in Mini Philosophy.

6. For Jane Goodall, death was the “next great adventure” (42 likes): What the great primatologist and humanitarian’s final message can teach us about dying (and living). By in Hello Mortal.

7. On the afterlife of the 💀 (38 likes): 📲💀🔔🕊️. By in The Shadowed Archive.

8. Classics for a reason (9 likes). By in Running Ideas.

9. Does Matter Exist? (8 likes): A Dialogue On Materialism, Panpsychism, and Idealism With Some Help From Spinoza and Tamil Advaita. By in Philosophy As Therapy.

10. Disco Elysium and post-socialist melancholia (26 likes): Ruins of a promised Utopia. By in Beneath the Pavement.

11. Hegel, A Fragment on Love: Lecture 5, Intimate Relationships (5 likes): Is love a union for life? By in Intimate Reltionships.

12. Objects of the Dead (4 likes): A brief reflection. By in The Existential Pulse.

13. The Pope in the Meat Locker (24 likes): #31DaysofHalloween. By in Rogue Art Historian.

14. Fiction: Imagine Being Loved By Me (47 likes): Obsession as a form of worship. By in Helen Higgins.

15. Laughter can be liberatory. (1 likes): And stand-up comedy isn’t all there is. By in The Politics of Laughter.

16. The Certainty of Classical Physics (9 likes): Fritjof Capra, “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism” (1975) #6. By in Philosophy and Beyond.

17. AI and the Total Destruction of Trust (345 likes): Generating fake videos, ripping the social fabric, and what comes next. By in New Means.

18. Lost Buildings and How They Make Us Dream (9 likes). By in Noëlle McAfee.

19. Harris’s 107 Days and the Missing Reckoning: Gaza (2 likes): Early coverage of Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir, 107 Days, has been unfair. Yet Harris still won’t adequately deal with the Biden administration’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, or her own role. By in The Theory

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