In football, one of the greatest French authors of the 20th century located the most potent and valuable forms of consciousness. In the game’s drama of the flesh, he felt himself witness to the fullness of life, in all its pathos, and all its saving graces.
À propos de la marchandisation extrême du football
Traduction du billet de blog "A different game. On football’s extreme commercialization" de Branko Milanovic
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt | Philopedia
Overview of Albert Camus’s The Rebel, exploring metaphysical and historical rebellion, nihilism, revolution, and the limits of political violence.
POLITEIA#32 | La France championne du monde, une victoire du foot de cité ? | Stéphane Beaud
A New Legibility: Theo Ellin Ballew
A New Legibility: Interactive Essay by Theo Ellin Ballew.
On Dying Well: Ben Sasse and the Vocation of Suffering
Ben Sasse’s recent announcement reveals to us both goods and virtues that show in his dying a glimmer of light, a stirring of hope, and the possibility of spring even in one’s final winter.
Vincent Tiberj, « La droitisation française. Mythe et réalités »
Je m’apprête à chroniquer un ouvrage dont j’espérais depuis longtemps l’apparition. Le livre de Vincent Tiberj, « La droitisation française. Mythe et réalités » propose une réponse à une question que…
Pluralistic: The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Yesterday, I attended a Brian Eno talk about the nature of creativity and art based on What Art Does, the short book he published with Bette Adriaanse last year:
La canicule favorise la hausse des violences envers les femmes
Plusieurs études montrent que les épisodes de fortes chaleurs peuvent favoriser les comportements violents. La période actuelle, entre canicule, Coupe du monde de football et arrivée des vacances, constitue un terreau particulièrement fertile pour les violences conjugales et domestiques.
The obsolescence of man, vol I , part 2: The world as phantom and as matrix: philosophical considerations on radio and television - Günther Anders
The first complete English translation of a remarkable 1956 essay about television from Vol. I of The Obsolescence of Man by Günther Anders, who—using phenomenological analyses, excerpts from his diaries and reflections on daily life—depicts a capitalist world that manufactures a warped “mass-man” by imposing nonparticipation, consumption of images, artificial “needs” (“drug addiction is the model for today’s needs”), separation, “conditioning”, an eternal present, commodified leisure and the dissolution of the individual in vapid mass produced roles, in a text that in many ways anticipates the theory of the “spectacle” of Guy Debord and the situationists.
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
A philosophy of games to help us win back control over …
Rupture amoureuse : les femmes se confient, les hommes se protègent
En matière de peines de cœur, les femmes se livrent plus que les hommes et reçoivent davantage de confidences. Ce qui fait peser sur elles une forme de contrôle social.
Why Roger Federer is a GOAT: an account of sporting genius
Why is Roger Federer a GOAT (‘Greatest of All Time’) of tennis? I argue that the correct response goes beyond statistics and style of play; instead, it is due to the fact that Federer embodies the ...
Go Lives
The greatest Go player of all time just did something amazing. What can this tell us about life in the era of superhuman AI?
In "The Player and the Played," @maxhaiven.bsky.social theorizes the connections between the financialization of the capitalist economy, the gamification of our lives, and the rising threat of a uniquely 21st-century form of fascistic politics: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262056045/the-player-and-… #OpenAccess
