Virus Magic, or about the amplification of an unknown factor
The unknown factor is a variable in a conditional equation in mathematics; it is the quantity which is to be discovered by solving an equation (This is…
Coronavirus – Brief Philosopical Side Notes of the End of a World
"Don't you know there comes a time of night when everyone has to take off his mask?' -Søren Kierkegaard. In these days of immeasurable pain we…
Yin-Yang, Buddha and Plato’s Cave at the Dawn of the Covid Age
At the dawn of the “Covid Age” the prospect of a quantum-like leap into an unprecedented consolidation of what is known as the Global Society is overtaking…
What is Really at Stake at the Dawn of the Corona Age?
2020 has been marked by the vivid resurgence of an ancient, fundamental disjuncture, even a conflict, between two discourses: one of love or desire for the Good,…
The Necessary and Essential Difference Between Essential and Necessary
Like many families across Canada this year, my family celebrated Easter alone at home, the three of us gathered together around the table. Attempts to compensate for…
Reading Maxwell in Time of Pandemic
They Came Like Swallows. William Maxwell. New York/London: Vintage 2008/1937. We often read in order to understand, but sometimes we read in order to cope. And…
The End of Kantian Universalism: The Current Pandemic Madness (Part I)
It is too early now to draw the balance of the current pandemic madness, but certainly not too early to reflect on what is going on, and…
A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year. Daniel Defoe. New York: Penguin Classics, 2003. In light of the COVID 19 virus now spreading around the world, it…
Civil Liberty, Communal Safety
Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS. Peter Baldwin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Although seemingly a historical account of European and American public…