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Philosophy & Theory Roundup - November 14, 2025

By Mona Mona · Philosophy Publics · · 4 min read

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Explore related topics with these Wikipedia articles, rewritten for enjoyable reading:

  • Dune (franchise) 13 min read

    Directly referenced in the article headline 'Maybe we need a Butlerian Jihad after all' about AI and dead loved ones. This Dune universe concept of humanity's war against thinking machines provides rich context for contemporary AI ethics debates.

  • Mark Fisher 19 min read

    Explicitly mentioned in 'Capitalism and Mental Health' piece discussing Fisher's diagnosis of capitalism's effects on mental health. His concepts of capitalist realism and hauntology are foundational to understanding contemporary cultural criticism.

  • Emmanuel Levinas 12 min read

    Referenced in 'Beyond the Gaze of the Other: A critique of Levinas's deification of the Other.' His phenomenological ethics and concept of the face of the Other are central to continental philosophy discussions.

ROUNDUP

  1. The Most Dangerous Animal (3 likes): A Powerful Short Film by the Late Al Sutton. By in Dehumanization Matters.

  2. Spinoza’s Recapitulation of Parmenides (4 likes): the eternal positivity of |Being, the gift of reason, and its casualties. By in Philosophy As Therapy.

  3. If you learn how to win, you need to learn when to stop. (31 likes): Virtues need virtues to stay virtues. By and in Mini Philosophy.

  4. Capitalism and Mental Health (12 likes): The effects of capitalism on mental health as diagnosed by Mark Fisher. By in The Existential Reader.

  5. Privacy as Jihad (7 likes): A discipline to protect the human principle from algorithmic colonization. By in The Cyber Hermetica.

  6. 147. Confidence (4 likes). By in Overthink Podcast.

  7. Beyond the Gaze of the Other (17 likes): A critique of Levinas’s deification of the Other. By in Deterritorialization.

  8. Nov 30, 2025: Reading Palestine 5 - We Are Not Numbers: Voices of Gaza’s Youth (2 likes). By in Radical Books Collective.

  9. Stocks Aren’t Salvation (150 likes): Political consequences of the ownership society. By in How Things Work.

  10. Jesus and the Doomsday Clock, part 3: The All-American Endtime Show (24 likes): How Apocalyptic Christianity Became America’s New Theology of Power. By in Hey Slick.

  11. What happens when the person you’re grieving is you (54 likes): Becoming ourselves means saying goodbye to the selves we’ve outgrown. By in Hello Mortal.

  12. The Relativity of Space and Time (12 likes): Fritjof Capra, “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism” (1975) #9. By in Philosophy and Beyond.

  13. Red Thunder, Black Borders: The Optic Power of Navajo Textiles (21 likes): #nativeamericanheritagemonth. By in Rogue Art Historian.

  14. If you’re feeling lost, read this. (68 likes): Between the breakdown and the breakthrough, we’re all just looking for the keys to life. By in Helen Higgins.

  15. The Trillion-Dollar Vassal (2 likes): How Trump 2.0, Israel’s Gaza war, and Norway’s two-trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund converged in a firestorm of finance, geopolitics, and genocide. By in The Theory Brief.

  16. The relational conception of the self: historical threads, part 3 (6 likes): Anna Julia Cooper on identity-based social ties. By in Humaning is Hard, but Philosophy Can Help.

  17. How capitalism gave me an autoimmune disease (26 likes): Part 1: trauma. By in Loveconomics.

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