Who’s Afraid of the Post-factual?

From Alternative Truth to True Alternatives

Kellyanne Conway, the advisor to President Donald Trump, must be credited for having coined a new philosophical concept: alternative facts. When confronted with the episode in which White House press Secretary Sean Spicer had grossly misstated the figures concerning the people present at the presidential inauguration, Conway disputed that Spicer ...
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Who’s Afraid of the Post-factual?

What Can Cinema Teach Philosophy?

Badiou and Rancière on Film

Philosophy’s general distrust of cinema is a thing of the past. Cinema no longer serves only as a placeholder for reproving wrong conceptions of time (Bergson on the “cinematographic illusion”), as the incarnation of the distraction industry (Adorno), as a symptom of cultural depravation (Heidegger on the remove from “Japanese ...
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What Can Cinema Teach Philosophy?