How seeds enable new modes of human cognition and aesthetic sensibilityWhat if seeds could transform our understanding of life, time, and existence? Vegetali...

Mateja Kurir talks to Michael Marder, a philosopher of plant life, about the place of plants in Western thought, vegetal time, Chernobyl, waste and fire…

Back in 1908 Trotsky wrote an analysis of art which displays his great sensitivity to the violence that pertains to the very form of artistic exhibition: “You see, visiting art ... Read More

Every philosophy is a commentary on Plato, and so is mine. The reason for returning to this figure again and again through millennia is that there are distinctions – such ... Read More

Enquanto a primeira é um texto vivo que não pode ser escrito ou roteirizado de antemão, a segunda é reguladora e prescritiva

Enquanto a primeira é um texto vivo que não pode ser escrito ou roteirizado de antemão, a segunda é reguladora e prescritiva

In the spring of 2026, events occurred in German philosophy and political life that, at their intersection, illuminate a sinister trend in the probable formation of the Federal Republic’s social ... R...

Disappearance became as clear as the blue sky, which, for a moment, appeared complicit in the violence below. Planes exploded and steel melted as the world observed a spectacle characterized ... Read ...

O livro Filosofia no Lixo, de Michael Marder, desafia-nos a pensar o mundo na condição de lixeira e o ser humano enquanto matéria. Sem desespero.

In the silence of the startling news, I reach out to Michael and ask if we may write a text together. Imagine a correspondence. To acknowledge. And inscribe. ... Read More

On 6 July 2026, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights transmitted to the delegations of its participating states a certain document: a report on the militarization and ... Read ...

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On my office wall, at an institution I taught at a few years ago, was a dull, unimposing poster from the American Psychological Association—the organization responsible for the conventions of ... Read...

There is a significant, if half-erased, difference between morality and ethics.

In the early years of the eighteenth century, when Leibniz and Clarke debated, there were at least two plausible ways for European thinkers to imagine the cosmos and, by implication, ... Read More

<p><em>The creation of the self brings with it the creation of linear time; the self lives towards death. And by imagining her own death, writer Clarice Lispector, escapes the self and the pull of tim...

Introduction: A Philosophical Crisis In the UK, over the last several years, philosophy has come under sustained state-sanctioned attack. The closure of the University of Kent’s Department of Philosop...

2026 strikes me as the year in which AI’s fiercest critics began writing their critiques with the help of artificial intelligence. I notice because they use it clumsily and barely ... Read More

The apparent conflict at the heart of Toy Story 5 (Andrew Stanton, 2026) is easy to understand. Sheriff Jessie (Joan Cusack), together with Woody (Tom Hanks), Bullseye, and the other traditional toys,...

Michael Marder talks about plant-thinking, the concept of "edges," and the work of the environmental humanities.

Michael Marder talks about plant-thinking, the concept of "edges," and the work of the environmental humanities.

More than ever before, the global economy is dangerously reliant on the acceleration in bank credit flows, driven almost entirely by massive U.S. borrowing tied to artificial intelligence expansion, w...

The apparent conflict at the heart of Toy Story 5 (Andrew Stanton, 2026) is easy to understand.

Telos invites paper submissions for a special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War

Are we in a pre-war state? Undoubtedly yes, and what further complicates the picture is that the threat of global war is combined with two other threats: the ecological catastrophe ... Read More

Public space must become more spacious, generous, permeable, more capable of accommodating everyone.

In this lecture, Michael Marder proposes a reconfiguration of philosophy, the arts, and the humanities based on the musical form of the fugue, conceiving it as a method for thinking, feeling, and bein...

We can speak today of a certain crisis of democracy both as a fact and, more importantly, as a credible value. Authoritarian regimes prove their efficiency, and in many Western ... Read More

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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare [1] is a play that is historical in nature, based on actual characters and events during the Roman era, in particular, the ... Read More

Autor com obra publicada em várias línguas, o filósofo Michael Marder chega ao mercado português com um livro que vê na lixeira um conceito fundamental para interrogar a nossa época. Da ecologia ao An...

Michael Marder è noto soprattutto per le sue ricerche sulla filosofia delle piante e sul concetto di "plant-thinking", o pensiero vegetale.

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were cold and violent through much of Europe; Jacques Caillot’s 1633 depiction of “the miseries of war” remains shocking even today. They were also times ... Re...

When we use AI to search for answers or for some other task, it complies. But it does more than that. It rephrases the question, offers us alternatives, or it ... Read More

The following theses sketch the contours of what might be called the colonial Real: not only the dimension of violence and antagonism that colonial discourse cannot fully symbolize, but the ... Read M...

I am in Prague, listening to Bedřich Smetana’s Vltava, part of the larger cycle Má vlast. As the river unfolded in sound, its currents swelling, receding, gathering force, I recognised, almost against...

We have no idea as to what fascism is, because fascism is not predicated on an idea.

“A work of thought — to go toward the other, to the absolutely other — does not come back to the same.” Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity The philosopher between ... Read More

Em Filosofia no Lixo, Michael Marder defende que, no século xxi, o próprio ser se tornou num vazadouro. Com o apoio da filosofia, teologia, ecologia, psicologia e arte, Marder analisa fenómenos como m...

How might one summarise the main thrust of the argument developed by Christoph Menke in his article ‘“Reason of State”’, which appeared in the latest issue of the German cultural ... Read More