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On the Philosophical Work of Zilberman (First Brief Introduction)
The major problem of modern philosophizing, both in Russia and in general, is very similar to what happened in philosophizing about a hundred years...
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Phenomenology of a Symbolic Dish: What Su Porceddu Teaches Us About Food, Meaning, and Identification
How can we analyse a symbolic dish? Which kind of semio-political questions should we consider in such an analysis? Which cultural categories might...
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Psychoanalytic Currency: Money, Commensurability, and Clinical Economies from Freud to Lacan
The Freudian psychoanalytic interpretation of a subject’s relation to money as a figuration of unconscious anal erotism remains an important theme in...
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Mystical Pragmatics
Mystical Pragmatics is an oxymoron, unifying the spiritual quest with the everyday task of running our business affairs, the two extremes of human...
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Human Agency
This chapter opens the discussion of agencyAgency in organismsOrganisms by starting with human agency, which is a bundle of adaptive processes with...
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The Phenomenon of Human Communication
You are reading this book. You can therefore engage in communicative practices. Chances are you are proficient in many of them: discourse, writing,...
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Art as an Instrument of Philosophy
The chapter focuses on two distinct tendencies in contemporary Russian thought regarding its approach to art. The first is exemplified in the...
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Synonymy and Contextual Dependence
Synonymy is a very common phenomenon in our daily speech and can be defined, in most cases, not as identity but as similarity of meaning. Speakers of...
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Orthodox Ethics and the Matter of Communism
There seems to be no end to the polemics started by Max Weber’s famous essay on the role of Protestant ethics in the formation of modem capitalist...
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“Overcoming Modernity,” Capital, and Life System: Divergence of “Nothing” in the 1970s and 1980s
This paper delves into the dispute surrounding “overcoming modernity” in Japanese philosophy, which arose before and during Japan’s Pacific War (the...
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Political Concepts as Aesthetic Concepts
Could it be, that when we think that we are using political concepts, the main accent could still, in some cases and/or situations, be cultural—or...
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The rule of reality and the reality of the rule (on Soviet ideology and its “shift”)
The present article is a critical engagement with Aleksei Yurchak’s Everything Was Forever until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. It...
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Philosophical Anthropology and Business Ethics
Underpinning all our judgments about how to live and how to act is our conception of what we are as human beings. As discussed in “Creating an...
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Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: An Introduction and Invitation to New Pathways of Consciousness, Freedom and Solidarity
Pragmatism invites us to cultivate new relationship between practice and consciousness, practice and spirituality, freedom and solidarity. This book...
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Figures of Resistance: Painting After the End of the Avant-garde
Painting after the end of the avant-garde represents a paradoxical return to the human figure as a picture of the decomposed world of visualization....
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Extra-ordinary Black Vulnerability
This chapter interrogates the role of vulnerability in the formation of political identity and the uniqueness of black positionality. Vulnerability...
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The Blind Men and the Elephant: Towards an Organization of Epistemic Contexts
In the last two decades of knowledge organization (KO) research, there has been an increasing interest in the context-dependent nature of human...
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Inside the Matrix: Matriarchs, Materialisms, and Machinic Being
This chapter clarifies the various responses in feminism related to technology, moving historically from radical feminist and ecofeminist pessimism...
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Perspectives on Transparency: Interpretivism and Language
This chapter discusses the Nature of accountability and transparency within accountability regimes in environmental and global contexts. Presently,...
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Fabulation in a Time of Algorithmic Ecology: Making the Future Possible Again
Daniel Smith reminds us that it was Nietzsche who first thought of philosophers and artists as “physiologists or symptomatologists, ‘physicians of...