The River Thames is empty. Tour boats lie moored in the centre of the estuary. The only moving vessels are police launches patrolling for transgressors against lockdown, and the drug smugglers. Steve Latham In our “splendid isolation” (a term coined to describe Britain’s diplomatic policy of avoiding entangling […]
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Yearning for an absolute
If science can describe reality as it ‘really is’, any such description would be transcendental, independent of our observations and partial perspectives. Sean Sheehan The philosopher Meillassoux uses fossils as proof that we can access a reality unrelated to human knowledge. We are grounded in historically-determined horizons of […]
The fear of Covid-19 is overcome with science and love
Carlos Tello Ponce, an Ecuadorian doctor who applies knowledge learnt in Cuba whilst fighting coronavirus in his homeland. Sinay Céspedes Moreno Every morning, the family medicine specialist attends the IESS South Quito hospital, in the capital, to attend to possible carriers of the new strain of coronavirus. But […]
The cheats and lies of fashion
Camouflaged as democratic, we are living in times of false liberty, where each person feels free to dress and be… different, but nowadays ‘different’ is just an adjective: everyone is the same, and if they didn’t conform they would be different… Isabel Soto Mayedo In an era […]
Coronanomics: the new normal
As states have responded to the Coronavirus, with extended powers of lockdown, and aid to business combined with increased welfare provisions, a new term has entered our vocabulary. Steve Latham “Coronanomics” describes this process of growing government control. In a rejection of neo-liberalism, even the Right has adopted […]
















