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The last ten entries from this website, with short descriptions. You will find more recent and shorter writings on my blog "Heterologies."
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(written in October 2025)
In this essay, I argue that the transformation of American democracy towards authoritarianism combined with oligarchic technological feudalism is well-advanced, as we can tell by the following signs: the rejections of democratic rules, the demonization and legal persecution of opponents, the curtailing of civil liberties, and the toleration of violence. These are the core tactics of what I call the "finite game." This isn't just politics; it's a deliberate strategy to turn citizens against each other and hollow out our republic into a "Post-Democracy."
There is a different path: We can choose to embrace democracy as an "infinite game." This is a more hopeful and resilient vision where the goal isn't to achieve a final victory over our opponents, but to continuously build a more just and durable society together.
Published January 2017. Updated Oct 2025.
Democracy has become theatrical facade: elections decide nothing, truth is manufactured by repetition, and supposedly natural categories like "the people" are mere political constructs. Corporate-state fusion hollows out citizenship while media transforms politics into reality-creation rather than fact-discovery. Yet this crisis dialectically energizes opposition movements—perhaps democracy must periodically self-immolate to renew itself.
NOV 2024
A rising superpower challenges the existing global leader. Both are nuclear-armed, their economies deeply intertwined. They compete intensely, from the waters of Taiwan to Silicon Valley, but can’t afford open conflict. As we approach the late-2020s, the relationship between the United States and China challenges the existing global order, and poses fundamental questions about political systems, power, and the future of capitalism.
April 2023
This selection of six fundamental problems of contemporary philosophy aims to demonstrate that philosophical inquiry has not reached an end with the breakthroughs of modern science. Old questions, for instance about the existence of God, may be outdated, but the mysteries that surround the nature of the human being and its relation to reality are open research projects. The philosophy of science investigates questions like the relationship between mathematics and physics. Advances in artificial intelligence renew philosophical reflections about the nature rationality.
This short overview highlights the continuity between Aristotle's' philosophy of nature, his ethics, and his politics. Nature moves by itself; the principles of motion and rest are implicit in natural things. These same principles apply to human societies. States are constituted through their citizens (the material cause), they have a constitution of some kind (formal cause), they are created and administered by statesmen and politicians (efficient cause) and it is their purpose to allow humans to life a good life (final cause.)
Updated Jan 2021
What are the themes that characterize contemporary existentialist thinking? Existence precedes essence, the self is a relationship between finiteness and infinity, freedom produces anxiety, human existence can only be understood from a subjective point of view, emotions reveal the truth of our lives, we strive for authenticity, our existence is fundamentally about ethics and responsibility.
Updated Jan 2021
Thanks to modern science, we now know more about religious history than ever: Scientific archaeology began in the 18th century, and since then excavators have been discovering and interpreting evidence. The archeological evidence enhances and corrects our knowledge derived from books and other preserved objects.
Some 30,000 years before the first religious writings were made, the Ice Age people of Europe and the Near East were creating shrines in caves, modeling images of divinities and shamans, and using art and music in ceremonies. Even the Neanderthals already buried some of the tribe’s deceased with objects , possibly symbolizing resurrection after death.
Published May 20, 2016 - Updated Jan 31, 2021
The world’s population quadrupled between 1900 and 2000, and will reach 10 billion people around 2060. 5.2 billion in Asia, 2.8 billion in Africa, 1.3 billion in the Americas, 0.7 billion in Europe, and 0.1 billion in the rest of the world. In developed countries, the population is already shrinking, but life expectancy is rising everywhere. Extreme poverty is getting eradicated, and the global economic system is changing as a result of population change.
(2020)
Forget the universe as a container. Think of it instead as three fundamental frontiers: the largest, the smallest, and the most complex.
We humans occupy a strange position across these dimensions. Spatially, we sit at the midpoint between DNA strands and stars—neither giants nor specks. In time, we're surprisingly enduring creatures, living longer relative to our size than cosmic scales would predict.
But in complexity? We reign supreme. The human brain, with its hundred trillion synaptic connections, represents the most intricate structure yet discovered in the universe. While we've built telescopes to peer toward the infinitely large and particle accelerators to probe the vanishingly small, we have no comparable instrument for complexity itself—because here, the explorer is the territory.
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