by Mauro Carbone Mauro Carbone is Distinguished Professor of Aesthetics at the Faculté de Philosophie of the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, and an Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Influenced by phenomenology, in particular by Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, his present researches focus on the contemporary screen experiences and...

Yiğit Soncul & Jussi Parikka This article was first published in Paletten (online) on April 28, 2020 and is reprinted here with permission. I With increasing intensity over the past year, an image has occupied the faces featured across media. From the Australian forest fires to the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic, a visual...

By Dario Cecchi Dario Cecchi is a professor of philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome. This article initially appeared on Fata Morgana Web and is reprinted here with permission. Author’s Note Italy is the European country in which COVID-19 first started its spread and the one in which the number...

by Daniel Marques With the rise of social media and digital platforms over the last 10-15 years, privacy has become a hot topic of conversation among scholars, media outlets and the general population. Speaking through personal experience, I was struck with curiosity when I first came across the idea of "Privacy by Design." As...

by Maureen Ryan In a well-timed bid for the attention of television audiences brimming with New Year’s resolve, Netflix released Tidying Up this January, a domestic advice program starring the Japanese organizational expert Marie Kondo, whose 2014 book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up topped bestseller lists. On each episode of Tidying Up, Kondo...

Frieda Knobloch’s work exceeds disciplinary boundaries.  She is at once the botanist who retraced the steps of Aven Nelson, the creative writer who is exploring the Red Desert through a gruff character named Ed Ray, or the environmentalist who strongly senses the urgency of addressing global climate change.  Knobloch...

By Zach Finch In Frieda Knobloch’s recent C21 lecture, she discussed methods that would allow us to conceptualize and create new spaces in order to approach the discourse of climate change and the environment.  Her work attempts to break down binaries between human and environment (i.e. humans wrecked environment therefore...

Frieda Knobloch’s work exceeds disciplinary boundaries.  She is at once the botanist who retraced the steps of Aven Nelson, the creative writer who is exploring the Red Desert through a gruff character named Ed Ray, or the environmentalist who strongly senses the urgency of addressing global climate change.  Knobloch...

Frieda Knobloch’s work exceeds disciplinary boundaries.  She is at once the botanist who retraced the steps of Aven Nelson, the creative writer who is exploring the Red Desert through a gruff character named Ed Ray, or the environmentalist who strongly senses the urgency of addressing global climate change.  Knobloch...

By Sean McLernon Global warming is terrifying for many people under the age of 30, and, as someone in that cohort who hopes to make it to old age, I’m a bit worried myself. Working as an environmental news reporter reminds me daily of the bleak long-term outlook. There’s no quick...