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Philosophy

Fear of Others

Fear of others is not finally fear of difference, but fear of the gap through which the self discovers it was never solid, never alone, and never entirely its own.

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Philosophy

Ethical Selves

What is missing precedes the language with which we attempt to describe its consequences.

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Alien Anthropology

Borders and Boundaries

We live in a world that perhaps needs and unwittingly depends on its borders and boundaries but in many cases they persist not because they are necessary in any ultimate or foundational sense but quite simply because they can. There are deep truths here; of humanity, of history and of minds.

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culture

Unbounded Discovery

Seeking complete and consistent explanations, descriptions or theoretical frameworks in any context is always already founded upon an assumption that such intelligibility, completeness and consistency actually and foundationally exists in the world.

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culture

Boundary

The greatest human tragedies predominantly occur because of our differences…