Featured Essays

Featured

The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.

Cultivating Purpose and Discernment in a Computational World

Reflections on how ill-prepared our traditional moralities are for the world in which we live. The speed and spread of computational power is forcing a revaluation of values that we are not equipped to handle.

New Gods for a New Time

The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?

Greg Laugero 7/5/21 Greg Laugero 7/5/21

Dealing with Uncertainy

Greg Laugero 6/13/21 Greg Laugero 6/13/21

Aristotle’s Art of Politics

Greg Laugero 6/12/21 Greg Laugero 6/12/21

Political Friendship

Greg Laugero 5/17/21 Greg Laugero 5/17/21

Going Too Far: Freud and the Return of Ethics

Greg Laugero 5/14/21 Greg Laugero 5/14/21

Egos, Ids and Politics

Greg Laugero 5/13/21 Greg Laugero 5/13/21

The Ego, the Id, and Power as “Non-Domination”

Greg Laugero 5/10/21 Greg Laugero 5/10/21

Seneca and Rorty (on Freud)

Greg Laugero 5/8/21 Greg Laugero 5/8/21

Letter 113, From Pedantic to Practical

Greg Laugero 5/6/21 Greg Laugero 5/6/21

When Is “Interiority” not on the Inside?

Greg Laugero 5/3/21 Greg Laugero 5/3/21

The Apolitical Baggage of Seneca

Greg Laugero 4/24/21 Greg Laugero 4/24/21

Tranquility, Citizenship, Interiority

Greg Laugero 4/15/21 Greg Laugero 4/15/21

Reason, Politics, Anger, Nonviolence

Greg Laugero 4/1/21 Greg Laugero 4/1/21

Reason Is Always Provoked

Greg Laugero 3/28/21 Greg Laugero 3/28/21

Anger, Delay, Reason

Greg Laugero 3/13/21 Greg Laugero 3/13/21

Anger, Reason, Bureaucratic Violence

Greg Laugero 3/11/21 Greg Laugero 3/11/21

Earthquakes, Bodies, Breathing

Greg Laugero 5/28/19 Greg Laugero 5/28/19

Rejoicing - Bruno Latour

A lesser known work of Latour’s that shouldn’t be. A very personal and remarkable understanding of what it means to be non-Modern and religious at the same time.

Greg Laugero 5/28/19 Greg Laugero 5/28/19

The Time that Remains - Giorgio Agamben

A reading of St. Paul that will change the way you see him. Also a great way to understand Walter Benjamin’s w e a k messianic power.