Oradour-sur-Glane: Remembering Terror

A Visual Essay. Text and photos by Álvaro Minguito Palomares Oradour-sur-Glane is a symbol of the misfortunes of the Nation. It is important to preserve this memory, so that a similar tragedy never repeats itself. —Charles de Gaulle speech in Oradour-sur-Glane, March 1945 On June 10, 1944, only four days after Allied troops disembarked in […]

Thinking with Bats, Forests and the Cosmos

Thomas Nagel. 2012. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. New York: Oxford University Press. 128 pages. Eduardo Kohn. 2013. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human. Oakland: University of California Press. 288 pages. The philosopher Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception […]